Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] only [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It ventured forth only to kill cattle or flatten crops , poisoning the air with its fetid breath . |
| 3 | It tends not only to slow the sphere significantly , but it may also affect its intended direction . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It remained now only to encourage Charlie to talk , and here there was no difficulty . |