Example sentences of "could only [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the quarter of an inch strain gauge could only record stress on one small portion of the club , while simulation can simultaneously display stress levels on over 1,000 grid points . |
| 2 | What we need is not so much a point irregularity such as a foreign atom , because that could only facilitate movement at one point , but rather a line defect which will allow the army of molecules , as it were , to sweep forward on a broad front . |
| 3 | But we could only take care of little children ! |
| 4 | In the event , however , the Commission could only obtain agreement for 5 per cent of the ERDF budget to be non-quota , and very little interest was expressed in these funds by member states . |
| 5 | But if naval patronage did prove to be of considerable value to the Elphinstone family interest , reinforcing the impact of the Indian patronage distributed by Keith 's brother , William Elphinstone , the fleet could only provide patronage for those officers fortunate enough to be employed in a command in a suitable station far from Great Britain . |