Example sentences of "only to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is no coincidence that the subject refers to an inanimate being in all five sentences where only to is appropriate ( ( 14 ) and ( 17 ) — ( 20 ) ) . |
| 2 | It also permits us to understand why only to is used with a verb such as discern : ( 49 ) We discerned it to be a man . |
| 3 | Occasionally they are led through the freshly flooded rice-paddies to turn and fertilize the soil ; otherwise their duties extend only to being sacrificed at noble funerals such as these , and leaving their magnificent horns attached in layers to the Toraja houses whose residents had so generously supplied them . |
| 4 | After all these months of forward movement only to be expected . |
| 5 | It is a method only to be used in a real emergency under medical supervision . |
| 6 | Some élite karateka have travelled all the way to an international competition only to be disbarred because they never took out their passports ! |
| 7 | Reynolds attempted it next and reached the Bower climbing from the bottom — alas only to be benighted and top-rope rescued . |
| 8 | If the instrument is only to be an indicator of magnetic activity then calibration is not really necessary . |
| 9 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |
| 10 | They included this year 's Dubai Cup winners at Hickstead , Robert Smith and Brook Street Boysie , who threw down their usual serious challenge only to be bettered by 1.05sec . |
| 11 | ‘ I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 12 | True to style , Mr Pozsgay claimed only to be a sympathiser of the movement and not its instigator . |
| 13 | I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 14 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 15 | Anyone who has ever suffered at the hands of military pomposity will relish the story of General Patton inspecting a hospital in France and screaming abuse at a man for not coming to attention in his presence , only to be told ‘ Run along , asshole . |
| 16 | Sometimes they would drive off in their vehicle without the fieldworker , only to be called back by the sergeant after she made a complaint . |
| 17 | In 1917 the Belorussian National Committee , a hotchpotch of indecisive and divided intellectuals , eventually mustered sufficient unity to send demands to Petrograd , only to be nullified by the differing views of the Petrograd- and Moscow-based Belorussian groups ( intimations of those wider cultural and political differences between the twin capitals which are taken up in a later chapter ) . |
| 18 | The obvious disadvantage here is the possibility of cold spots along the stitching and such bags tend only to be good for one or two season use . |
| 19 | This is the story of the Bristol Blenheim that was so painstakingly restored by Graham Warner and his team of enthusiasts , only to be destroyed so soon afterwards in a crash . |
| 20 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 21 | Copulation surfaces once , only to be transformed immediately into a more familiar element : |
| 22 | A year later , they were still in his mind when thinking simply of western civilization ; the Papuans came into his memory only to be cursorily dismissed as ‘ weak inaudible voices ’ . |
| 23 | Anyhow , if the Palace was the reflection and the shanty town the reality , the reflection of the reality was only to be found in the palace , and vice versa . |
| 24 | Leaders of the Church of England have also attacked the ‘ hardness ’ of the government , only to be dismissed in return as ‘ cuckoos ’ ( see below , p. 289 ) . |
| 25 | Typically , the sterling area was assumed a ‘ good thing ’ , the justification of which needed only to be made to foreigners ( especially Americans ) . |
| 26 | Ultimately we escaped the cold , sticky grasp of sand and sea , only to be faced by three miles of sand on its own . |
| 27 | Several times he had the nose of his car in front , only to be thwarted by some brave late-braking by the Jaguar man . |
| 28 | High-speed , hood-down progress is only to be undertaken with all windows up as otherwise the wind whips round the side and into the cabin . |
| 29 | To an observer Wexford might be thought only to be sitting , like many other inhabitants of Kingsmarkham , waiting for the storm to break . |
| 30 | At home most were never up at this hour , and breakfast was either a meal only to be enjoyed at the weekend or eaten hastily prior to catching the bus to work . |