Example sentences of "[v-ing] only [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But other types of museum found the provisions disposing only to enhance the institution 's collections or mission unduly restrictive , and an open debate was scheduled to review the Code of Ethics . |
| 2 | ‘ Dana should be ready now ; I 'll tell her you 're waiting , ’ she said , wanting only to gain the privacy of her room , where she could release the tears that were threatening . |
| 3 | Reluctantly , the great golden beast left his excavation and pushed back through the reeds — pausing only to shake the dirt from his coat . |
| 4 | This is where the fun begins , because you can whip round getting various instant readings from a number of different tanks , pausing only to rinse the unit in tapwater or distilled between tests . |
| 5 | But He hummed a little tune , cheery as a plague pit , and — pausing only to extract the life from a passing mayfly , and one-ninth of the lives from a cat cowering under the fish stall ( all cats can see into the octarine ) — Death turned on His heel and set off towards the Broken Drum . |
| 6 | However rhetorically brilliant , the critique which Adorno and Horkheimer in Dialectic of Enlightenment offer is ultimately a totalizing discourse in which the dialectic struggles and twists against itself , serving only to tighten the knot which binds it . |