Example sentences of "be [adv] only to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it would seem that they are not only to be denied an increase , but also to be faced with a reduction . |
| 2 | But they are not only to be seen on the street but within the mind 's eye itself : the mental set has changed in the post-1960 years of unprecedented exposure to visual imagery . |
| 3 | Canonical traits are not only to be found in words denoting living things . |
| 4 | The films were not only to be self-produced and self-distributed , but self-financed as well . |
| 5 | Ceps , morels and other wild fungi were previously only to be found in specialist shops during the picking season ( from August to October ) . |
| 6 | To avoid considering these consequences on the grounds that they were not intended is not only to be blind to much human suffering , but also to accept the relative positions of intention compared with indifference on a common-sense hierarchy of immorality . |
| 7 | This is normally only to be found in very large orchestras , but is a regular member of the wind band and clarinet choir . |
| 8 | However , the significance of the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians was not only to be seen in their effect on the Church , but also , according to Mrs Whitehouse , in their affinity with the secular intellectual elite which held sway in the 1960s : |