Example sentences of "only to [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all these purposes he needs not only to be a good lawyer but to have business acumen and an intimate knowledge of the problems of the trade or industry in question . |
| 2 | When he rang Eleanor he would explain that it was only to be a simple snack . |
| 3 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 4 | War was only to be a last resort . |
| 5 | But the new town church , large and imposing though it was , was allowed only to be a dependent chapel of the mother-church , without the right of burial of the dead . |
| 6 | To me though this is much more a landscape of alienation , and I miss my creek which now seems only to be a nostalgic dream . |