Example sentences of "[vb mod] only [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a parent has such a right , and even then the parent may only act in the best interests of the patient . |
| 2 | For Schopenhauer , valuable as all the arts were , music was the art which uniquely penetrated the depths of metaphysical reality and expressed the essence of that reality , the will , directly : " the composer reveals the innermost nature of the world and expresses the deepest wisdom in a language which his rational faculty does not understand " , Words , on the other hand , like the instruments of reason that they are , could only intrude from the secondary world of physical phenomena , with which true music was not concerned . |
| 3 | In the meantime they could only speculate about the revealed cosmos . |
| 4 | But it was probably too late to persuade Bigwig to be gentle : he could only hope for the best . |
| 5 | ‘ And if I could only reach inside the back pocket of my jeans , I 'd show you the paperwork to prove it . ’ |
| 6 | Having heard of her relationship with John , the Girls looked at her in fascination , and could only talk about the wonderful clothes this woman wore . |
| 7 | The requisite consent and authority to establish the relationship could only exist in the International Tin Agreement . |
| 8 | In England obituaries regretted that he had not appeared more regularly for his country , while in Dunedin cricketers could only dream of the great things Jack Crawford might have done for Otago cricket … if only a World War had not interfered with something as important as cricket . |
| 9 | When man and woman were innocent the Evil One 's power was not great enough to take the world by force : he could only operate outside the human race as a whisperer of lies and delusions . |
| 10 | But his tortured mind could only come to the same conclusion . |
| 11 | At Ashburnham , Brown created a late eighteenth-century sense of ‘ wilderness ’ that could only come from the utmost ingenuity ; sudden ‘ surprise ’ views of the house replaced the structured avenues and rigid vistas of earlier occupants . |
| 12 | For example , many a small child knows that to alleviate the pain and irritation of a nettle sting he need only reach for the nearest broad-leaved docken , ( Rumex obtusifolius ) and rub it on the offending part for instant relief . |
| 13 | In Vl the cells would only respond to the double grating if one of the two moved in the preferred direction of the cell as tested with simple stimuli . |
| 14 | The two companies would keep separate identities and would only cooperate on the one service . |
| 15 | The Ministry of Defence objected on three grounds : the increase in nuclear missiles available to the West was operationally unnecessary and would only add to the existing nuclear overkill ; mixed manning was a formula for military disaster ; and the cost of the British share would have to come out of the already overstretched Defence budget . |
| 16 | I shall only deal with the latter trend . |
| 17 | These will only appear after the final moult , except in damsel flies which take two moults , one very soon after the other , to bring their wings to perfection . |
| 18 | Its message was that wars occur through misunderstanding , ignorance , and foolishness , all preventable if leaders and citizens will only reflect on the likely unintended consequences of their actions . |
| 19 | Suppose , for example , that risk-averse traders will only trade in the future spot market if the terms being offered there are sufficiently attractive to compensate for the extra risks incurred in delay . |
| 20 | This will only go to the small segment mailed in October . |
| 21 | But there is little doubt in my mind that the future will only go to the large company if that large company is really able to release the energies and the synergies that ought to be a part of the grand design and make more than the sum of the parts . |
| 22 | Pabulum Consultants ' Jennifer Rust comments : ‘ Many companies will only invest in the minimum training required to get the system up and running ; it is not surprising in these cases that the systems are not being used to their full potential . |
| 23 | Despite a growing world market , competition remains fierce and will only intensify in the short term as new malting capacity is commissioned in numerous countries . |
| 24 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 25 | It will only look at the premium status up to the fifteenth of the month , it wo n't take into consideration when so recall 's gone through on the sixteenth of the month . |
| 26 | The change will only apply to the fixed public switched telephone network existing cellular phones and the 0800 services will not be affected — but it will mean reprogramming systems from the simplest memory telephone to the most complex computer-integrated telephony network , and all of the digital exchanges that now cover most of Britian . |
| 27 | Such a disaster can only arise from the inherent structure and culture of the company . |
| 28 | Thus the cost of a path can not increase , it can only stay at the same level or decrease , and the algorithm is admissible . |
| 29 | If the lounge reflects the proprietor 's domestic preferences , one can only speculate about the Georgian town house style hotel whose lounge boasts two public telephones with wall mounted perspex hoods , a cigarette machine and , on one occasion , dead arrangements of pinks and carnations on each coffee table . |
| 30 | Their estates and assets were seized for the imperial treasury , and one can only speculate on the possible consequences . |