Example sentences of "only to make the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not accept either the Right-wing proposition that we need only to make the country better off as a whole without making any special effort in the inner cities . ’ |
| 2 | By the time of Jesus , those Jews who lived a good distance from Jerusalem were required only to make the pilgrimage at Passover . |
| 3 | We heard this sort of thing before , when Pontypool ruled the roost in the Seventies and Eighties , and the fact that there was more than an element of truth in it , that the complaints of others could be justified , served only to make the accused — Neath , just like Pontypool before them — become more introverted and less receptive . |
| 4 | The big creatures stand quite high from the background , but this depth of cutting is only to make the contours clear ; the surface is a flat plane , details lightly modelled or engraved on it . |
| 5 | Nor had Ivor ; but the circumstances of his death gave him a posthumous popularity , if only to make the crime of which Georgina was accused seem fouler . |
| 6 | She had only to make the decision . |
| 7 | It is important not only to make the training interesting , stimulating and exciting , but also for the Territorial Army to provide the best possible club in any area . |
| 8 | I wish only to make the point that I think it wrong that Opposition Members should seek to criticise my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford , who has fairly raised a matter that carries with it considerable concern in all strata of society . |
| 9 | Great thanks are due to the Dyfed Wildlife Trust for organising the trip and being such good hosts , and especially to Jane Asher for taking the time not only to make the visit but also to meet the very short deadline required for the article . |
| 10 | In fact , however , their very rarity served only to make the procedure arbitrary in the extreme and , indeed , may have added to the reluctance of owners to offer land for development at all . |
| 11 | If they do recommend an envoy , and if President Clinton were to appoint someone like former President Jimmy Carter , the effect would be only to make the problem worse . |