Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] only [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped there only to change trains . |
| 2 | I had not only to Testify as to how , where and when the Lord Jesus had entered my heart but also give the punters a detailed account of the innermost secrets of my heart . |
| 3 | There are also indirect impacts of silviculture which relate not only to forest management but to the construction of roads and the effect of forest removal on watershed management . |
| 4 | It is preceded by a prologue ( Genesis 1–11 ) , consisting of ancient records and traditions , which serve not only to introduce the main themes of the narrative but also to relate them to God 's purposes in the world of fallen men , of divided nations and of a created order which was originally good . |
| 5 | An illustrative case may be found in the work and practical impact of William Morris , who sought not only to recognize but also to ameliorate the social and aesthetic impact of the machine , partly under the influence of socialist ideas . |
| 6 | The 1958 war is remembered now not so much for the vicious sectarian battles that occurred in Beirut but for the arrival of the US Marines , who stormed ashore only to find the beaches occupied not by militiamen but by bikini-clad ladies and street urchins who were merely waiting to sell Coca-Cola to the country 's latest rescuers . |
| 7 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 8 | Thus the extreme subjectivism of , for example , the novels of Virginia Woolf , belongs within the same formation as the economic interventionism of Keynes , who wanted not only to preserve the economic system by rationalizing it but to do this so that , within that achieved stability , the real processes of civilized life could be extended , undisturbed . |
| 9 | Worse than this , we tend not only to limit ourselves to looking at faces , but also to be preoccupied with whether they smile or not . |
| 10 | How hopeless and ludicrous everything was : the seas of incomprehension , the misunderstandings that could never be cleared up because we seemed not only to speak different languages but to inhabit different countries . |
| 11 | To understand the specific nature of the abnormality experienced by disabled people we have not only to document a general failure to provide for needs . |
| 12 | We learn not only to give and receive love , but to become Love . |
| 13 | When , on 1 January 1864 , the tsar legislated for the creation of the new assemblies — " zemstva " ( or , if the plural is anglicized , " zemstvos " ) — they seemed not only to represent provincial society as a whole but also to possess considerable authority . |
| 14 | Also too often they broke away only to lose the initiative by letting the cockney donkeys get back . |
| 15 | They offered not only to plant a tree in my name , if I applied for a policy , but also the choice of a free radio alarm clock or a telephone . |
| 16 | Their subordination to adults in general is minimized by what might almost be called an avoidance of them : from the age of five or six , they return home only to eat and sleep , and spend the rest of their time in unsupervised gangs . |
| 17 | His formal meeting with the US delegation ignored the pledge he made then only to meet ‘ old friends ’ from abroad privately and not to discuss politics . |
| 18 | And it needs not only to provide access to files or data , but actually to connect applications running anywhere on the network — and through the application , to connect the minds that are putting the applications to work . |
| 19 | Gandhi 's understanding of Truth and the essential unity of all that exists means that he has not only to realize his highest Self or Ātman but also recognize his oneness with all his fellow men and with all sub-human forms of life . |
| 20 | As things are , he has not only to invent his method , but also do most of the spadework for himself . |
| 21 | It ventured forth only to kill cattle or flatten crops , poisoning the air with its fetid breath . |
| 22 | He intends not only to accelerate privatisation but also to reduce state control of ‘ strategic ’ sectors , such as mining and telecommunications . |
| 23 | It tends not only to slow the sphere significantly , but it may also affect its intended direction . |
| 24 | Yet as the war dragged on it served not only to increase the regime 's unpopularity but also to give new leverage to the forces of opposition . |
| 25 | The public inquiry into the expansion of the Windscale nuclear reprocessing factory gave the anti-nuclear movement the impetus it needed not only to challenge the official estimates of risks , but also to question repeatedly the idea that the simplistic estimation of the numerical size of a risk should govern its regulation . |
| 26 | He started not only to print his addresses or charges but to review books of general interest ; to consider a book on diplomacy and war , and not to lose a chance of holding up the character of Asquith to admiration , or to contrast the laziness and drift of Stanley Baldwin as prime minister with the crusading fervour of a Gladstone . |
| 27 | To hold the regime together , and maintain himself at its head , he manoeuvred not only to maximize his chances of material and territorial satisfaction , but also to avoid alienating from himself any of the factions within his regime , while , at the same time , bolstering his own hegemony by ensuring the persistence of competition between them . |
| 28 | By spending three million pounds diversifying in this way he hopes not only to create new employment , but also to save buildings that would otherwise have fallen into disrepair . |
| 29 | Think of the toddler learning to walk and how often he falls down only to pick himself up and try again . |
| 30 | He had not only to take Rome : he had also to retain it . |