Example sentences of "[modal v] only [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information having the necessary quality of confidence which is supplied by one party of a contract to another for the purpose of enabling that other to perform a contract will usually be subject to an obligation of confidence so that the recipient may only use it for the purpose of that contract . |
| 2 | If I have to lose it , I 'll only do it in the ring . |
| 3 | You 'll only spend it at the bar otherwise . |
| 4 | So marvelous was the migrating instinct of birds that he could only ascribe it to the superior intelligence of their Creator . |
| 5 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 6 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 7 | Churchill , the First Sea Lord and England 's hero , could only describe it in the House on October 17 as ‘ a remarkable exploit of skill and daring ’ . |
| 8 | The school authorities were unsympathetic : the dinner ladies would only accept you into the school to see the nurse if you were on the point of death , + my teacher kindly informed me that I should n't have been running in the playground . |
| 9 | in so far as this order purports to have any extraterritorial effect , no person shall be affected thereby or concerned with the terms thereof until it shall be declared enforceable or be enforced by a foreign court and then it shall only affect them to the extent of such declaration or enforcement unless they are : |
| 10 | The Scottish Typographical Circular reported of this conflict that " people are beginning to see that making women printers … will only unfit them for the active and paramount duties of female society " . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , there is no real solution to these difficulties and again we can only leave it to the reader to arrive at his or her own conclusion on the basis of the material presented . |
| 12 | The Leith-based Small , 19 , who reached the last 16 of the 1992 Embassy World Championship , said : ‘ This is my last event of the season , but I have still learned a great deal and I 'm sure it can only benefit me in the years to come . ’ |
| 13 | ( 110 , p.225 n.2 ) Possibly such claims were put forward even earlier , although one can only infer them from the appearance of closed crowns on the English coinage in the reign of Henry VII . |
| 14 | Yet I can only picture her in the posture of Candice Riberon in Le Métro lying on her back , her face caught in an agony of uncertain provenance . |
| 15 | Anyone who considers such trivial questions as humour or literary merit is clearly living in a previous century and I can only refer them to the motto of the Punch accountancy department , which is : ‘ If they can read , we do n't want 'em . ’ |
| 16 | The county council has not got the power to ban fox hunting in total it can only ban it on the land which it owns or controls and that 's what that motion seeks to do today . |
| 17 | We learned a great deal from those matches and this can only help us in the future , ’ he said . |
| 18 | But then again , we can only hear them at the moment , but there are six of them . |
| 19 | Allen Watkins used to say that there was a core of truth hidden in the heart of all folk tales and legends if we can only find it amongst the accumulations which have occurred over time : the difficulty arose in finding out what it was — of winnowing the wheat from the chaff . |