Example sentences of "it be [adv] only [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , where studies have provided this information , it is typically only to note that the majority of the sample were white ( for example , Wilson , 1987 ; Graham , 1987b ) . |
| 2 | It was n't only to toil in the cotton fields that negros were stolen from Africa . |
| 3 | It was not only to meet the argument of demographic decline if the trade stopped but to avoid the embarrassingly radical charge that they wanted rapid emancipation that antislavery reformers argued the consequence of abolition would be virtually automatic improvement in the conditions of slaves . |
| 4 | CATHERINE If I did , it was probably only to keep you in order . |
| 5 | If anyone spoke , it was usually only to voice condemnation of British Rail for the time it took to get served . |