Example sentences of "only add to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pressure only added to the fiery torture . |
| 2 | But , with the exception of image processing systems ( see p 62 ) , computers and the documents they generate have only added to the printed matter which covers most desks : even today 95% of business information is paper-based , and every year millions of working hours are wasted just searching for information . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the letter to Sarah Catt arrived first and it was she who was the first to break the news — by phone — to Charman , a circumstance that only added to the unpleasant situation . |
| 4 | A node is only added to the OPEN list if it has never been created before . |
| 5 | While bumping up the price of our shopping bill , this only adds to the general burden of waste disposal ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 6 | The latest leap in the yen only adds to the deflationary pressures already burdening Japan 's economy . |
| 7 | Bits of it actually sound accidental , but that only adds to the shocking brilliance of a record that allowed rock a way into the previously terrifying world of dance , and that showed dance a way forward too . |
| 8 | Voice Of The Beehive offer familiar pleasantries , but their jolly pop only adds to the constant onslaught . |
| 9 | The Ministry of Defence objected on three grounds : the increase in nuclear missiles available to the West was operationally unnecessary and would only add to the existing nuclear overkill ; mixed manning was a formula for military disaster ; and the cost of the British share would have to come out of the already overstretched Defence budget . |