Example sentences of "only [verb] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |
| 2 | . The patched lines on the plan which you have in front of you erm are only intended to be indicative . |
| 3 | But I could only attain to be thrilled and enchanted , as by the sound of a strain of music dying away . |
| 4 | ‘ Dana is n't really a man-eater ; she only wants to be happy . ’ |
| 5 | Their requirements may be similar to those of others , but at present the vast majority of goods and services on offer are only designed to be user-friendly for fit , athletic members of MENSA ! |
| 6 | In otder to minimise the influence of complications from the initial bleed , patients were only considered to be eligible for entry into the trial once they were stable with no evidence of any bleeding for five days and also no evidence of any other destabilising medical conditions ( such as septicaemia and renal failure ) . |
| 7 | Many collars , sprays and powders are only claimed to be effective against fleas . |
| 8 | Your pond only has to be large enough to catch the returning water . |
| 9 | In making time to provide reflection the head not only has to be clear about the relative priority of helping out , taking on chores and providing workaday leadership but also has to have confidence in the extent to which his or her colleagues expect leadership . |
| 10 | Indeed they do not only appear to be immoral , but dishonest as well . |
| 11 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 12 | Days ago she had decided to be good — she was being quite good — but she was only pretending to be good so far and all this appreciation was as yet undeserved . |
| 13 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 14 | She opened the front door and stepped out into the corridor , which was more private than the flat if mother was only pretending to be asleep , which was possible . |
| 15 | This plan 's only going to be successful if they do n't suspect anything , and if they see her around they 'll suspect lots . |
| 16 | After all , the survey will have to be done at some stage and it is only going to be helpful to carry out a pilot if it tells the designer something he did not know . |
| 17 | Now my Lord it 's at the beginning of October things start to go wrong in erm and as it is pleaded on the first of October er , the plaintiffs were told the , in correspondence from the bank , that the financial terms that the finances that had been approved in principal , were only going to be available if security was offered in respect of a number of properties . |
| 18 | Processed food , therefore , not only tends to be deficient in essential nutrients but also contains an increasing array of possibly toxic artificial chemicals . |
| 19 | Marriage and the family were only thought to be relevant in considering young women 's careers , not young men 's . |
| 20 | Movies only needed to be social when the plot demanded it , and even if some kind of political crisis had to be depicted in a particular story then the attitude or position adopted by the movie would be less important to audiences than the logic of the plot . |
| 21 | Presumably , approaching a text from a linguistic point of view only ceases to be extraordinary , when one compares it both to the complex peculiarity of the other ways texts are handled , and the fact that the " naive " reader is a mythical beast . |
| 22 | ‘ They were only told to be careful , ’ the depute fiscal said . |
| 23 | It only needed to be true enough of the time . |
| 24 | According to the manufacturer , the bevels on the Cogelow tools need only honing to be perfect . |
| 25 | To be completely consistent perhaps Gandhi would not only have to be opposed to the killing of animals for food , but also to the killing of disease-carrying rats , mosquitoes , and venomous snakes , and those forms of plant life that are essential to a vegetarian diet . |
| 26 | From this you might learn about Richardson 's method of writing , as well as about differences between writing which is really private compared to writing which only pretends to be private . |
| 27 | The Bride only pretends to be excited . |
| 28 | I 'd only wanted to be alone ! |
| 29 | The Bachelors only pretend to be thrilled . |
| 30 | Their activities were thus not only believed to be tangible proof of the truths of Christianity , but were also an essential link between men and a somewhat remote but terrifying god . |