Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] only [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from invoking a sense of wakeful alertness , the essence seemed only to induce further drowsiness . |
| 2 | The Robemaker had only to exert his will ; he had already clawed his way into the minds of the two slaves with the axes ; it would be nothing to him now to whip their minds to his will . |
| 3 | The affair seemed only to add to his status as folk hero . |
| 4 | His attachment to the literature and ideas of the past served only to fuel his fanaticism on these occasions . |
| 5 | She did what she could with her tousled mass of auburn curls , but when she twisted it into its usual topknot the starkness of the style served only to emphasise the weariness in her wide-set eyes , and with a little mutter of disgust she let the curls fall again , tumbling about her shoulders in riotous abandon . |
| 6 | After the prince returned to England it must have seemed increasingly unlikely that he would live to inherit the throne , and the prospect of Richard 's succession as a child served only to increase uncertainty . |
| 7 | A settlor had only to make sure that he chose a word which made clear an intention on his part that a trust obligation should arise in the trustee . |
| 8 | A school had only to ask and he would talk to the boys and girls , and dozens of boys came to King 's because he had met them in a train or at school . |
| 9 | A CAP designed only to promote efficient farming would abolish itself forthwith . |