Example sentences of "could [vb infin] only [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an enormous moment , this good-bye to the old home ; so enormous she could hardly grasp it , could feel only a vague regret . |
| 2 | She could feel only a few twigs . |
| 3 | The house was n't visible from where they stood , in the cool beneath the branches , and even further along , where the path turned , following the contours of the shoreline , they could see only a small part of it , jutting up , white between the intense green of the surrounding trees . |
| 4 | With the torches extinguished , Rostov could see only a vague blur where each of the targets stood . |
| 5 | Soon the mist grew thicker and he could see only a few feet in front of him . |
| 6 | In the mist , Giles could see only a few feet ahead , so he moved very carefully . |
| 7 | Her involvement with Adam and Rourke had brought her nothing but trouble and recrimination so far , and when she looked ahead to the future she could see only a bleak landscape stretching out before her . |
| 8 | Here , he could see only the occasional flutter of movement , as the fearful denizens of the area tried to keep out of the way and out of trouble . |
| 9 | At first , he could utter only the first syllable of each name . |
| 10 | The first was that natural justice could have only a limited application in the context of the wider duties or discretion imposed upon a minister ; unfortunately the courts had applied those limited notions of natural justice to other areas where the constraints were unnecessary . |
| 11 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 12 | In some places , it could take only a small shift to bring socialists back to power . |
| 13 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 14 | He could hear only a faint murmur of voices from behind the closed door . |
| 15 | I could hear only the little lap of water slipping past Joanna 's planks as she lay at anchor . |
| 16 | The contrasting fortunes of share prices and sterling were illustrated by the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index closing within a whisker of its best for the year whilst sterling could manage only a marginal improvement from Thursday 's all-time low against the German mark . |
| 17 | After the 1986 Tax Reform Act , however , such gifts were subject to an Alternative Minimum Tax ( AMT ) whereby donors could deduct only the original purchase price . |
| 18 | Fishing was rather like farming in that a river fishery was a limited resource that could support only a restricted number of people . |
| 19 | If she were rich , that would n't stop her caring for children , but she could charge only a nominal fee to the mothers who badly needed to work . |
| 20 | The countryside was so blurred that they could form only the vaguest idea of how it must look when the sun was shining . |
| 21 | I could adduce only the hopeless weeping of a child , the terrified stare of a black bum on Thirteenth and Seventh , and the way all the walkers , city-users , the tragedians of the street-the way they all seemed to be fleeing , and the uniformed ones ( those that are responsible ) saying , Do n't mind us . |
| 22 | He could find only a small cut and bruise on the back of his head . |
| 23 | Habits of thought and speech die hard , and even educated men , trying to think new thoughts , could find only the old words — the ‘ fenced opposites ’ , either God or devil . |