Example sentences of "only [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the poor discarded animals are bounced down the road only to fall under a passing car . |
| 2 | The hype surrounding Justin v John Fashanu did not materialise but Justin came on , only to miss from a few yards as Sanchez intervened , leading to his injury and the booking of the Wimbledon physio . |
| 3 | If the word " real " in the sense of " actual " or " actually existent " has any discernible function at all , then it is only to indicate in a roundabout way that a certain proposition , or propositions , are actally true ; and " true " , as we have just seen , is itself eliminable as a propositional predicate . |
| 4 | The kingdom of Italy , the second big new state to emerge from the wars of the mid-century , had only to deal with a few French-speaking communities and some Germans in Venetia ; it did not yet have to face a minorities problem . |
| 5 | See how they grab at objects whether they are edible or not and then spit them out , only to grab at an identical item soon after . |
| 6 | At the end of a taxing day on Twistleton Scar in Yorkshire , I could not leave before crowning the day with an ascent of the notoriously polished Candle Crack — only to skid like a bemused Bambi on ice and slither to the rocky moorland beneath . |
| 7 | I would not have him survive this only to die of a broken heart . ’ |
| 8 | Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle , only to die within a few months . |
| 9 | But the pervasive and insidious presence throughout the novel of manifestations of Quechua culture suggests the ability of that culture not only to survive in an alien environment , but also , as it itself is modified , to exercise an ‘ Indianizing ’ influence on the country as a whole . |
| 10 | We might say that the corporation was liable , meaning only to summarize in a convenient way the responsibilities we ascribed to each of the shareholders . |
| 11 | One has only to glance at a human skeleton to see the numerous segments of the vertebral column . |
| 12 | The illusion was only to precipitate into a historical fact — the proletariat 's birth and growth — history 's total meaning , to believe that history itself organized its own recovery , that the proletariat 's power would be its own suppression , the negation of the negation . |
| 13 | ELDORADO , the BBC supersoap launched in a blaze of glory only to fizzle like a damp squib , CAN be saved . |