Example sentences of "we can only [verb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can only hope that a combination of international intervention and dawning sanity among the fighters will silence the sound of the guns . |
| 2 | While over 2,300 people wait on death rows countrywide to see if they will die or not , we can only hope that the US comes to its senses soon . |
| 3 | We can only hope that the future will see technological advance : perhaps overhead power lines will carry DC in preference to AC to the extent that converters are used to generate AC domestically or industrially . |
| 4 | We can only hope that the message was garbled in transmission , or possibly in translation from the Italian — a much more difficult language than many seem prepared to believe . |
| 5 | We can only hope that the current problems will be resolved . |
| 6 | ‘ We can only hope that the courts will deal very seriously with attacks on police officers . ’ |
| 7 | We can only surmise that a few basic signalling systems emerged early in evolution and were then modified in subtle ways to meet the unique signalling requirements of different cells . |
| 8 | At type II promoters we can only conclude that the precise nature of the interactions between CRP and the truncated and wild-type polymerases , and their role in the activation mechanism , remain to be determined but that the C-terminal part of the α-subunit of RNA polymerase is not involved in this process . |
| 9 | Where hedging of bets ( ‘ ambiguity ’ ) is not just feasible but desirable , we can only assume that the problem is not cancer , but hypochondria . |
| 10 | The crypts were small , too small to have needed a central pillar to support the ceiling , so we can only presume that the pillar had a symbolic significance to the Minoans ( Plate 18 ) . |
| 11 | We can only stress that no reputable antiques dealer would ever conduct business on a doorstep . |
| 12 | We can only imagine that the long hours between distractions dragged interminably . |
| 13 | We can only say that the bundle includes a perception , a thought , or an emotion as one of its parts . |