Example sentences of "only [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An early contestant for the role of heir apparent , Aleke Banda , a minister in the 1960s , was restricted to his village for several years before being partially rehabilitated only to fall in disgrace again in the mid 1980s . |
| 2 | On Tuesday the Soviet parliament refused to accept this blanket ban , which it wanted confined to the railways and to other key industries , and only to remain in force until the new law on strikes was promulgated . |
| 3 | Later that over Pringle let a ball or two pass only to freeze in horror as his last snapped back to hit the off stump . |
| 4 | This not only reminds us of the existence of a non-state section of education ( which as we write in mid-1987 seems set only to increase in size ) , but also in drawing attention to the relations between the state and non-state sectors , points out features of the conditions under which the former operates that are frequently taken for granted . |
| 5 | Safety technology — both active and passive — is now a significant selling point , and one that promises only to increase in importance . |
| 6 | Sauron is defeated and his Ring taken by Isildur , only to set in motion the crisis at the end of the Third Age . |
| 7 | That is their secret , and will remain so ; it behoves us not to pry , only to speculate in passing . |
| 8 | Many leading Whigs were dead : Shaftesbury had fled to Holland at the end of 1682 , only to die in exile in January 1683 ; Sidney and Russell were both executed for their part in the Rye House Plot , whilst another conspirator , the Earl of Essex , killed himself in the Tower ( although some suspected he had been murdered ) . |
| 9 | Staring through the streaming window , Nell gritted her teeth every time the bows pushed out over the top of a big wave , only to hang in space before dropping away into the sixty-odd feet of the following trough that seemed to her a mile deep . |
| 10 | They challenged and gave tongue in delight — only to stop in bewilderment as they reached the point where she had lifted the bag and hidden it again . |
| 11 | It is a faith that believes it has only to ask in order to receive : e.g. in the cure of the leper ( Mark 1:40–5 ) . |
| 12 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |