Example sentences of "only [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To check the statements ‘ comparison with the etching turn out to be optimistic ’ ( Schatborn ) and ‘ there is not a line that resembles Rembrandt 's other drawings of the period ’ ( Royalton-Kisch ) , readers have only to compare the treatment of the back in the drawing with the etching to see that the explanation offered by the experts that they are the product of two separate artists working independently in , ‘ a joint session of study from the model ’ is far fetched . |
| 2 | Much more will be said of the houses of the poor in chapter 3 , but the basic contrast can be readily tested — one has only to compare the range of interiors in the novels of Richardson or Jane Austen with the range in almost any one of Dickens 's novels . |
| 3 | Also too often they broke away only to lose the initiative by letting the cockney donkeys get back . |
| 4 | However , the design was only to affect the outside ; inside things must remain the same . |
| 5 | If ivy starts to grow up the trunk of a tree with attractive bark , it may be worth removing the ivy , but only to preserve the appearance of the tree , not its state of health . |
| 6 | The Israelis came like the Syrians , with expressions of innocence and with promises that they had arrived only to restore the sovereignty of Lebanon . |
| 7 | It may also be useful to have a risk management consultant in for the first few meetings , if only to kick-start the process and provide a few , objective ‘ what if ? ’ questions . |
| 8 | Often you can fork out several hundred pounds getting to an event abroad only to miss the cut and earn nothing . |
| 9 | By the time I had finished my Kachin fieldwork I had only to attend an animal sacrifice as a passive observer and then notice how the meat of the sacrifice was shared out among " the congregation and I could know , even down to quite line detail , the precise hierarchy and mutual relationship of everyone present , which might be thirty or more individuals altogether . |
| 10 | Nursery schools , however , were generally supported because they were designed only to promote the health and education of children ; their limited opening hours did not permit mothers to work . |
| 11 | She did what she could with her tousled mass of auburn curls , but when she twisted it into its usual topknot the starkness of the style served only to emphasise the weariness in her wide-set eyes , and with a little mutter of disgust she let the curls fall again , tumbling about her shoulders in riotous abandon . |
| 12 | The sea crossing served only to emphasise the idyll we left behind . |
| 13 | S1 and S2 The courses in S1 and S2 are designed , not only to stimulate an interest in and an enjoyment of the subject , but also to provide the pupils with a basic ‘ tool-kit ’ , necessary for further development . |
| 14 | I had , however , the good fortune not only to kill the bird myself , but , in one instance , to find its nest , from which I shot a female . ’ |
| 15 | His heart beating painfully , Jack wheeled round , only to see a man and a woman emerge , looking dishevelled and frightened . |
| 16 | Being on the 46th floor , I threw the curtains wide open to enjoy this unusual event , took a shower and casually sauntered back into my room stark naked — only to see a man outside my window ! |
| 17 | ‘ We are selling publishers ’ books at list prices , to the core market , and thus ensuring that publishers are able to recover their origination , only to see a mass of examples of the same book on offer elsewhere at cheaper prices . |
| 18 | The authorities had eventually allowed him in , but only to see a spokesman . |
| 19 | He turned angrily to remonstrate with Tommy , only to see a rat the size of a rabbit lying between his legs . |
| 20 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 21 | They still had some close escapes , the most important of which came after 49 minutes when midfielder Michael Thomas beat the keeper with his cross-shot only to see the ball come off the foot of a defender on the line . |
| 22 | In the 12th minute , Oliver Schafer fired a low angled shot past Chris Woods only to see the ball hit a post . |
| 23 | Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover . |
| 24 | If I was curious it was only to see the rest of the house . |
| 25 | To which he might be inclined to plead guilty ; if only to see the expression on our face . |
| 26 | A foolish general might surround his Pump Wagon with friendly units only to see the machine crunch through his own lines in the first turn ! |
| 27 | They raced onto the platform , followed a minute or two later by a panting Naseby , only to see the railway train , now bearing Miss Throgmorton , steaming slowly away , enveloping them in white smoke . |
| 28 | In Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo , likewise , the frustration that embitters the eponymous protagonist 's life and the dashing of illusions that is the pattern of existence as depicted in the novel , are symbolized by an episode in which young Pedro and his lover climb a hill and fly a kite in the shape of a bird , only to see the string break and the kite fall back to earth , and the novel as a whole is punctuated by recurrent images of rising and falling which reiterate the central theme of the thwarting of human hopes and aspirations . |
| 29 | It is not enough for us only to see the need of the contract ( the essence of level one ) or even the attractiveness and reliability of the terms ( levels two and three ) . |
| 30 | Developing countries have been climbing hard throughout the 1980s , only to see the summit receding farther up beyond the clouds . |