Example sentences of "only [prep] [be] [vb pp] by [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 | It seems as though we have conquered the traditional infectious diseases only to be assaulted by new ones . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ! |