Example sentences of "only to [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our young Men and Women are being killed and tortured , our children are being mutilated by explosive objects , our lands are being confiscated , our trees uprooted and our homes demolished only to be replaced by Israeli settlements … |
| 2 | Then Mervyn McKeeman put captain Ronnie Smith through only to be denied by visiting sweeper Chris Mulholland . |
| 3 | Late breakfasts would end with an Ensaimada — a kind of sweet break dusted with icing sugar — and coffee only to be followed by leisurely lunches which , more often than not began with plates of olives , Minorcan cheese and ham and small bowls of alioli — a Minorcan speciality of garlic and mayonnaise — into which we dipped chunks of crusty bread . |
| 4 | They try to manage for themselves something that can not be managed , but needs only to be accepted with proper gratitude and clear insight into the nature of the giver . |
| 5 | It seems as though we have conquered the traditional infectious diseases only to be assaulted by new ones . |
| 6 | It contains the private Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons , only to be seen on written application . |
| 7 | Shafts sunk below it however , had to be pumped or baled , though the water needed only to be raised to Deep Adit , through which it ran to the open fell side . |
| 8 | Accelerated promotion in an East Indiaman was only to be obtained through political or family interest , such as that exerted by the Earl of Findlater upon James Oswald of Dunnikier . |
| 9 | Men are the only animals to set store by discovering , acquiring and displaying materials comparatively rare in nature , frequently only to be obtained from distant sources and commonly useless for the purposes of daily life . |
| 10 | THE FIRST LAURA ASHLEY ARTICULATED LORRY , WITH ITS BOLD SIXTIES LETTERING , WOULD RUMBLE DOWN THE NARROW LINES FROM CARNO TO LONDON ONLY TO BE ATTACKED BY MARAUDING CUSTOMERS WAITING FOR THEIR FAVOURITE STYLES TO ARRIVE . |
| 11 | Personally I can almost almost remember the days when erm Ulysses was a bound book only to be read in plain cover after having been smuggled through the customs at Folkestone , Dover or Newhaven . |
| 12 | After the 1974 general election , Liberal Democrats have been nervously recalling , Mr Heath urgently tried to contact the then Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe to negotiate a pact , only to be informed by Liberal Party headquarters that no one could find Mr Thorpe 's telephone number . |
| 13 | According to the Centre for Pontian Studies in Athens 350,000 Pontians were massacred in 1916-23 ; around 1,000,000 Pontians fled to Greece while others escaped to the Caucasus , only to be exiled to central Asia and Siberia under Stalin . |
| 14 | He already knew the moves , having unsuccessfully spent 15 days working it in 1990 , only to be thwarted by bad weather — it was too hot ! |
| 15 | Grief and tears are not to be seen as special experiences , only to be used at great and solemn moments . |
| 16 | The concept of social representations is also used in a particular way , in order to suggest that social representations are only to be found in certain societies . |
| 17 | On the other hand , a concept such as ‘ bureaucracy ’ is a particular one , for bureaucracies are only to be found in particular sons of societies . |