Example sentences of "only to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've liaised with other organisations to make sure I 've got somebody coming in , even if it 's only to make me something to eat . |
| 2 | But the function of art history today is not only to make such identifications , but also to relate an individual work humanistically to other works of the same school , period and culture , while remaining sensitive to its salient aesthetic qualities . |
| 3 | ‘ All right , Alex , but that is for you to do , I have only to make sure you do it right . ’ |
| 4 | At 200 for 6 , Malcolm got Moseley and Ambrose ran out Hooper , only to make amends by putting on 34 for the ninth wicket with Bishop which would prove vital . |
| 5 | He went down there only to make tea or hide something in the fridge . |
| 6 | And now , Isabel had spoken the first words for a day or more , only to make them aggrieved , angry words , and incomprehensible too . |
| 7 | The DUP and Vanguard had intended to boycott the local elections , saving their effort for the more important Assembly elections , but activists in both parties thought that the earlier contest should be fought , if only to make use of the free publicity that would be created and to have the advantages of a trial run and an early opportunity to canvass for the more important second elections . |
| 8 | My dad never talked about appearance much , only to make a clinical/medical-type comment . |
| 9 | Some foresters of fee , however , paid no farm : Henry son of Aucher , forester of fee of Waltham in the forest of Essex , was in 1292 bound only to make ‘ wanlace ’ — that is , bring the quarry to bay , whenever the king came to hunt in his bailiwick . |
| 10 | A settlor had only to make sure that he chose a word which made clear an intention on his part that a trust obligation should arise in the trustee . |
| 11 | It is not open to the promisor to go back and undo the loss ; he is able only to make it good , and this can be done only by an award of damages in the amount of the promisee 's interest . |
| 12 | In designing the course , full account has been taken of the need to provide students with the skills necessary not only to make a contribution to the current environment , but also to be sufficiently adaptable to the exciting future of the industry . |
| 13 | I do not accept either the Right-wing proposition that we need only to make the country better off as a whole without making any special effort in the inner cities . ’ |
| 14 | The British media 's peculiar psychological tendency to build up sportsmen only to make them scapegoats , at a later stage , for wider national ills is well enough recognised by cricketers . |
| 15 | He could n't bear the thought of a child like Anna ever being subjected to the indecencies and ugliness of a house such as Claybury 's , and he vowed that from now on he would work only to make life for lunatics stress-free and tolerable , even if it meant less money for himself . |
| 16 | By the time of Jesus , those Jews who lived a good distance from Jerusalem were required only to make the pilgrimage at Passover . |
| 17 | We heard this sort of thing before , when Pontypool ruled the roost in the Seventies and Eighties , and the fact that there was more than an element of truth in it , that the complaints of others could be justified , served only to make the accused — Neath , just like Pontypool before them — become more introverted and less receptive . |
| 18 | Henry after all wished to collaborate in the work of the Church ; Rufus wished only to make money from it . |
| 19 | If the filling-in soil is dry , watering is needed only to make this contact , and no more . |
| 20 | At this stage we want only to make an initial contrast between explaining and understanding . |
| 21 | I had only to make it to Dover and then I could sleep on the ferry to France . |
| 22 | It is now possible not only to make almost seamless composites of existing photographs and to alter images in such a way that the changes may not be detected , but — using mathematics instead of a camera — it is possible to create images that are nearly photographic in their realism . |
| 23 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 24 | William 's grandad had a lot of friends , unless they were there only to make sure he was safely laid to rest , where he could n't get up to much more mischief . |
| 25 | That means helping them not only to make any additional or different arrangements to what is ‘ normally available for all ’ to meet the needs of particular children , but also to review and develop the general curriculum , so that ‘ what is normally available for all ’ can itself be gradually transformed to provide better learning opportunities for all children in the future . |
| 26 | Whereupon Hargreaves threw his arms around Venetia and kissed her violently , pausing for breath only to make some comment about Public Ownership , as Giles sprawled upon the floor . |
| 27 | The members ' rights of ownership entitle them not only to make decisions personally about how their property is to be used , but also to delegate that power to others , and they are free to stipulate what degree of control they require over the discretion ceded by them . |
| 28 | The big creatures stand quite high from the background , but this depth of cutting is only to make the contours clear ; the surface is a flat plane , details lightly modelled or engraved on it . |
| 29 | ‘ Forgive me , young master , I wish only to make an observation . ’ |
| 30 | All except Lord Diplock ( and in this he positively disagreed ) held that the GLC had to have regard , when making a grant , to the LTE 's obligation to run its operations so far as practicable , on a break-even basis ; so the GLC could make grants to the LTE only to make good unavoidable losses and not to further a particular social policy . |