Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] only [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chariot itself may attack only as it charges causing D6 hits plus +1 per scythe if scythes are fitted on the model . |
| 2 | The mystified motorist whose car has gone wrong may know only that it needs repair and that he should take it to a mechanic : his competence to deal with the matter may go no further . |
| 3 | In 1983 , the Attorney General issued new guidelines to the police which suggested that in all cases they should prosecute only when there was at least a 50 per cent . |
| 4 | And that 's another thing you must learn : you should speak only when you 're spoken to , unless you wish to make a serious request . |
| 5 | Action at the Community level should happen only when proper and necessary . |
| 6 | His own new powers , however , should last only until direct elections for a President were held . |
| 7 | The test under option five would therefore be that the court should intervene only if there is unreasonableness in Lord Greene M.R. 's narrow sense of that term , or only if there is manifest irrationality in the sense that preceded the development of the hard look doctrine in the United States . |
| 8 | Ideally , collaborative R & D programmes should continue only if progress is satisfactory from the point of view of both users and suppliers . |
| 9 | In his summing up the judge stressed that the jury should determine only if Imelda Marcos had engaged in criminal activities whilst in the USA . |
| 10 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 11 | If the AE and AD groups differ in the ease with which they acquire the target response to A ( as they well might ) , then differences in test performance might reflect only that there was more conditioned responding to generalize in one case than in the other . |
| 12 | Then he kissed me , and for a moment I remembered a play we were in together , when we 'd done the same sort of kiss , starting with his hand under my chin and just our lips lightly together , and then developing into a full clinch ; but by the time we were deeply embraced I had forgotten the play and could think only that this was like coming home . |
| 13 | I could think only that we must get , at once , the very best of help . |
| 14 | She could think only that she would rather be in Paris . |
| 15 | The Court restricted its judgment to the Murrays , and also ruled that the concept of " native title " could exist only where such rights had not been extinguished by the government . |
| 16 | The consequences of erecting barriers — even if we could do that — to produce and use fuel at a price that we could achieve only if we erected those barriers would have a direct effect on the cost of power . |
| 17 | With the certainty of the newly converted , they could see only that Pantisocracy offered an escape from their increasingly unsatisfactory and unhappy lives , and from a country whose politics they deplored . |
| 18 | The initial draft had stipulated that mining could begin only if all signatories agreed . |
| 19 | Marx explained the regime of Napoleon III as an arbiter state temporarily gaining autonomy from the balance of class forces , a situation which he insisted could occur only when the transition from capitalism to socialism was already in train . |
| 20 | Chris was now an auxiliary fireman and he and Maureen could meet only when their duties permitted . |
| 21 | I could conclude only that he was finding the job too big for him , and was himself under stress , which he relieved by persecuting a subordinate who was particularly vulnerable . |
| 22 | Yet the Dorset TEC said that it could manage only if the scheme was cut in half . |
| 23 | In itself it could mean nothing ; in regard to him it could mean only that he was mad . |
| 24 | Low-mass black holes could form only if matter was compressed to enormous densities by very large external pressures . |
| 25 | In his view , the court could intervene only if the minister ( a ) failed or refused to apply his mind to or to consider the question whether to refer a complaint to the committee or ( b ) misinterpreted the law or proceeded on an erroneous view of the law or ( c ) based his decision on some wholly extraneous consideration or ( d ) failed to have regard to matters which he should have taken into account . |
| 26 | The courts could intervene only if unfairness was such as to amount to an abuse of power . |
| 27 | That from the Reiss and Wagner study may imply only that , in their procedure , generalization decrement completely masks inhibitory effects ; the result does not require us to deny the existence of the latter . |
| 28 | ’ It may mean only that you do not have it here , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Questions about the reasonableness of the amount charged would arise only if the concept was part of that contract . |
| 30 | Veljko Kadijevic on Sept. 12 rejected an order from Mesic ( the nominal commander of the JNA ) to withdraw troops to barracks within 48 hours and reiterated that the JNA would act only if ordered by the Presidency as a whole . |