Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [that] it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arriving at the edge of the quay , Fitzroy Maclean attempted to inflate it , only to discover that it had a puncture . |
| 2 | If , as naïve young hunters , they attacked a brightly coloured prey , bit it and started to chew it , only to discover that it had a foul taste or a poisonous secretion , they would probably remember it for the rest of their lives . |
| 3 | We 've heard of a small baby who chewed through a gift and swallowed a battery , and of a granny who bought one of those talking baby dolls for her favourite grandaughter , only to find that it had a vocabulary of four-letter words . |
| 4 | Many women have seen a new and demanding career at midlife as their way to satisfaction , only to find that it becomes a prime cause of problems for their husband . |
| 5 | We know this because sometimes we may use a word which we ourselves consider innocuous , only to find that it produces a strong emotional response in someone else . |
| 6 | A range of frequencies wide enough to ensure that it encompasses the resonant frequency of the sample v r is then examined . |
| 7 | Clearly something does happen in higher education ; it is not enough to argue that it trains an elite and to leave it at that . |
| 8 | That is not to say that it involves no notion of a lawlike statement , or , to speak of reality rather than our language for it , no notion of lawlike connection . |
| 9 | ‘ The lack of statistical significance calls for the exercise of caution in evaluating the study , but that is not to say that it disqualifies the study from consideration , ’ said Morling . |
| 10 | That is not to say that it left no trace , with its demise , and the anti-Modernism of the new novelist was not instinctive or immediate but of slow and uncertain growth . |
| 11 | The English discouraged the colony , the Spanish first watched it carefully to see that it showed no sign of succeeding and eventually in 1700 they captured it . |
| 12 | AMERICA expects to wake up two days from now to find that it has a new President . |
| 13 | The motion goes on to say that it draws the ‘ natural and disturbing inference ’ that the meetings and copy number 26 were linked . |