Example sentences of "only [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming back , as always , to the Jurassic , one has only to compare the 30 ammonite zones represented in one foot of sediment in Sicily with the 15 000 feet representing a single zone in Oregon , to realise how startlingly different rates of deposition must have been in different places . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ceauşescu 's arrogance in presuming not only to treat the Soviet General-Secretary as a person on a par with himself , but also one without the necessary experience to speak with the full authority of a veteran revolutionary like himself undoubtedly aroused a mixture of irritation and amused contempt in Gorbachev . |
| 4 | Ford defended his action , pointing out that a protracted trial of the former President would serve only to continue the long agony of Watergate , and distract the United States and its people from more urgent matters . |
| 5 | Turning her back on Maman 's room , and Dada 's dressing room , she crossed the pavilion-like hallway — useful only to light the double staircase through its long floor-to-ceiling window . |
| 6 | Worst for Mr Clinton , he might jilt California only to see the Supreme Court decide for state over federal rights , thus losing face for nothing . |
| 7 | With the leave of the House , it remains for me only to thank the Select Committee on Energy for allowing us to hear the Government 's reply . |
| 8 | One must talk to people physically present as if on the telephone , where frequent interjections and verbal responses must be given if only to assure the other party that one is still paying attention . |
| 9 | Yet it should have been better for , needing only to hit the 18th green with a sand wedge he went into a bunker , failed to get up and down and ended with a bogey five . |
| 10 | Drop into Albert Eickhof 's truly international designer fashion store , if you dare pass through the video-framed doorway , only to meet the intimidating glare of Europe 's most menacing sales staff . |
| 11 | After many years of patient work , it has been possible not only to isolate the multipotential stem cells but provide conditions such that they will differentiate into the different kinds of blood cell in culture . |
| 12 | A punch would be delivered and Ricky , thinking this had ended the row would take himself off to bed only to find the next minute that Minton was emptying a bottle of water over him . |
| 13 | More than once Lina arranged the time and place of an interview , booked the plane , agreed the meals , models , set stylists and hairdressers only to find the whole thing suddenly cancelled . |
| 14 | When my mother got off the train we walked across the road to the bus stop , only to find the same man jumping on the Kirkby bus . |
| 15 | Then the trouble would disappear and Robyn would heave a sigh of relief and smile at her luck , only to find the same thing happening a couple of miles down the road , and always after she 'd passed a garage or a phone box . |
| 16 | I mean only to provide the following answer to the argument from coordination as an argument for conventionalism . |
| 17 | One has only to remember the painful experience of Patrick Gordon Walker , appointed Foreign Secretary by Harold Wilson after the 1964 election despite losing his seat of Smethwick . |
| 18 | I had to think carefully now — if only to remember the exact procedure . |
| 19 | On the surface the man seemed to be part of the backbone of the community , but she had only to remember the marked reluctance shown by those of his employees she had tried to interview that afternoon to realise that all was n't as it seemed . |
| 20 | At the time of the Marne , the Crown Prince had communicated his concern to the Kaiser about the difficulties von Kluck 's right wing had run into — only to receive the patronising rebuff : ‘ My dear boy ! |
| 21 | The publication Manifesto for Old Age by Bornat et al ( 1985 ) , serves only to highlight the yawning gulf between aspiration and reality , in a range of critical areas of social policy for older people , such as income maintenance , housing and education . |
| 22 | It is argued that to speak out on this subject is only to suggest the very evil you want to cure , and to do more harm than good … |
| 23 | Such an exercise will serve not only to sensitize the American reader to the distinctive features of the British polity but also to make readers more aware of the features of their own polity . |
| 24 | Distinct Catholic values are , therefore , being used not only to challenge the individual candidate but also to challenge the existence of the post and by implication to challenge the status of community education in McGregor School . |
| 25 | These precautions served only to strengthen the aggressive nature of the confrontation , to spread the cult and to increase feelings of loyalty amongst the supporters . |
| 26 | He would have been glad to talk , if only to escape the profitless treadmill of his thoughts — impressions rather than thoughts , random images which presented themselves again and again to his mind ! |
| 27 | He slammed the cabin door , only to hear the hurried application of train brakes . |
| 28 | She would have told him much more , all sorts of improper things , only to hear the old information newly proposed in new words . |
| 29 | The inflation of land prices encouraged farmers who wanted to remain in the east to sell to the Commission only to buy the same land back again at a reduced price and pocket the difference . |
| 30 | The movement 's critique proclaimed a uniqueness and originality for its discoveries to which it was never entitled and which served only to reinforce the self-deluding image of its own power and influence in the world . |