Example sentences of "[modal v] only [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may only conjecture about the degree to which these subjective assessments were influenced by prior experience of the school in other contexts , the existence of good or bad relations between the reporter and the staff of the school , and the personal prejudices and preferences of the individual concerned . |
| 2 | Section 16(8) of the Act says the search may only extend to the purpose for which the warrant is issued . |
| 3 | In these few words we may only point to the kaleidoscope of enthusiasm and activity by secondees that has been generated across the country in such a short space of time . |
| 4 | Only a parent has such a right , and even then the parent may only act in the best interests of the patient . |
| 5 | ‘ The Commission may only deal with the matter after all domestic remedies have been exhausted , according to the generally recognised rules of international law . ’ |
| 6 | We work on the principle that you should only pay for the services you need . |
| 7 | I 'd always understood that land should only go into the greenbelt if it was necessary to be kept permanently open , by reason of it performing one of the five purposes . |
| 8 | The vendor should only account to the purchaser for post-taxation income earned during the interim stage . |
| 9 | The top two semitones , B ♯ and C are , however , rather difficult to produce and should only used at the end of an upward-rushing ff scale . |
| 10 | But like everything else they 'll only work with the cooperations of of the of the er motoring public . |
| 11 | One hundred erm maybe it 'll only work with the times , generally on scientific ones , they do n't use the percent |
| 12 | ‘ Aye well , miss , if I do n't see her the night on the quiet , I 'll only come to the shop the morrow , an' I 'll put it plainly to her da . ’ |
| 13 | I 'll only get in the way . |
| 14 | No it 's because it 'll only look at the |
| 15 | For Schopenhauer , valuable as all the arts were , music was the art which uniquely penetrated the depths of metaphysical reality and expressed the essence of that reality , the will , directly : " the composer reveals the innermost nature of the world and expresses the deepest wisdom in a language which his rational faculty does not understand " , Words , on the other hand , like the instruments of reason that they are , could only intrude from the secondary world of physical phenomena , with which true music was not concerned . |
| 16 | He said that councillors had no idea what was going on , and could only rely on the advice of the council 's officials . |
| 17 | The company was bound by the representation and could only rely on the exclusion clause to exclude liability for damage to beads and sequins . |
| 18 | In the meantime they could only speculate about the revealed cosmos . |
| 19 | He contended that pleasure could only arise from the satisfaction of an impulse and that therefore there could be no pleasure , and no possibility of satisfying a desire for pleasure , unless there were impulses towards things other than pleasure . |
| 20 | Our troops could only move on the roads and had to be supplied with food . |
| 21 | But it was probably too late to persuade Bigwig to be gentle : he could only hope for the best . |
| 22 | He could only think of the confessional 's stock-in-trade : ‘ Did you find pleasure in it , Luke ? ’ |
| 23 | Chris could only stare at the slowly moving ship . |
| 24 | For a time the eagles were speechless with surprise at what had happened and could only stare through the Cages to Woil who had now taken stance again on the branch where he had originally been and was grooming himself as if nothing had happened . |
| 25 | ‘ And if I could only reach inside the back pocket of my jeans , I 'd show you the paperwork to prove it . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm taking you in my arms , ’ he returned with a calmness she could only envy from the bottom of her heart . |
| 27 | Having heard of her relationship with John , the Girls looked at her in fascination , and could only talk about the wonderful clothes this woman wore . |
| 28 | We could only travel at the rate of the slowest ship , and once out in the Irish Sea were ‘ blacked out ’ . |
| 29 | At first many people , including Israel himself , argued that since black holes had to be perfectly spherical , a black hole could only form from the collapse of a perfectly spherical object . |
| 30 | The requisite consent and authority to establish the relationship could only exist in the International Tin Agreement . |