Example sentences of "you [vb mod] only [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked Alison what qualities you need to be a marketing controller she said , ‘ you need to be able to establish immediate empathy with the people you are talking to as you may only have a short time to get the feedback you need . |
| 2 | Make , make the resistance a hundred times what it was you 'd only get a hundredth of the current . |
| 3 | Er but radical certainly as compared to how things operated before , when you went into the fitting shop , you know , you could , you could only walk a few feet |
| 4 | You 've got a great acting career ahead of you if you could only learn a few more tricks . ’ |
| 5 | You can register a letter for any country , but you would only receive a small amount of compensation for loss or damage . |
| 6 | You will only make a powerful enemy . |
| 7 | From July onwards , if you arrange your overdraft in advance with your branch , you will only pay a monthly usage fee plus interest if your account is overdrawn . |
| 8 | It is obviously every bit as important to respect the wild flowers in a foreign country as it is in one 's own , and not to pick large quantities of anything as you will only need a few pieces to create a floral souvenir of your trip . |
| 9 | By the time it has been adzed out , you will only have a small edge to clean up as well as the underside . |
| 10 | Right you can only differentiate a continuous function . |
| 11 | ‘ You can only evaluate a neural network empirically ; you can not guarantee up front that the neural network will work correctly , ’ warned Professor John Stonham of Brunel University . |
| 12 | If you can only wait a few — ’ |
| 13 | On the other hand , on a computer screen you can only see a small amount of information at any given time , whereas with index cards you can lay them out across a table or on the floor for an overview . |
| 14 | Nevertheless : If a teacher has , himself , to go down into the library with the whole class , or if you can only afford a third of a teacher to be in the library at certain times , then you are quite simply restricting the amount of work that can go on . |
| 15 | Saying , that we 're needing new , you can only get a good shoe , and I got a wee good shoe . |
| 16 | You can only get a hundred pounds for it . |
| 17 | If you were disqualified for more than 12 months ( in certain cases 12 months or more ) you can only get a provisional licence until you pass your driving test again . |
| 18 | You can only get a graduated pension based on your own personal contributions . |