Example sentences of "could only [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , in the absence of ordeal , they could only await the final vindication of their cause in heaven . |
| 2 | Population was increasing , trade and industry growing ; it was an expanding economy with wonderful new opportunities for making money if one could only strike the right spot . |
| 3 | Although he made a partial recovery in 1926 , he could only conduct the One-Year course at Wells , where he lived . |
| 4 | That could only prevent the sheer miracle of grace from standing as it must on its own as God 's free and loving initiative and movement towards us . |
| 5 | Some studies stated quite explicitly that they had chosen to study young men only because they felt that as male ethnographers they could only portray the male point of view . |
| 6 | Even for those most deeply committed to the official view , these revelations could only reopen the vexed question of why the Scottish police and the FBI had changed their minds so comprehensively after claiming for at least 18 months that the bombing had been carried out by Ahmed Jibril 's PFLP — GC at the instigation of Iran and Syria . |
| 7 | The darkness was almost complete now ; she could only see the faintest outline of his features , enough to know that they 'd taken on a hard , determined cast . |
| 8 | Behaviour motivated by such economic criteria , it was argued , could only harm the doctor-patient relationship . |
| 9 | He could only hear the distant sound of police whistles , screaming for help . |