Example sentences of "could only [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He said that councillors had no idea what was going on , and could only rely on the advice of the council 's officials . |
| 3 | The company was bound by the representation and could only rely on the exclusion clause to exclude liability for damage to beads and sequins . |
| 4 | In the meantime they could only speculate about the revealed cosmos . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Our troops could only move on the roads and had to be supplied with food . |
| 7 | But it was probably too late to persuade Bigwig to be gentle : he could only hope for the best . |
| 8 | He could only think of the confessional 's stock-in-trade : ‘ Did you find pleasure in it , Luke ? ’ |
| 9 | Chris could only stare at the slowly moving ship . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ And if I could only reach inside the back pocket of my jeans , I 'd show you the paperwork to prove it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm taking you in my arms , ’ he returned with a calmness she could only envy from the bottom of her heart . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We could only travel at the rate of the slowest ship , and once out in the Irish Sea were ‘ blacked out ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The requisite consent and authority to establish the relationship could only exist in the International Tin Agreement . |
| 17 | Although he could only guess at the enemy 's destination Hawke did not hesitate , as his despatch to the Admiralty next day confirms : ‘ I have carried a press of sail all night , with a hard gale at south-south-east , in pursuit of the enemy , and make no doubt of coming up with them at sea or in Quiberon Bay . ’ |
| 18 | She could only guess at the operation . |
| 19 | The history of my birth is unclear because NHS records have now been lost , so doctors in later years could only guess at the cause of my disability which became evident a few week after I was born . |
| 20 | There was still that bleak emptiness about his eyes , and Lissa could only guess at the torment he was going through . |
| 21 | But since he had only a vague idea about the length of the Tarvaras day , he could only guess from the position of the sun and the length of the shadows that it was mid to late afternoon . |
| 22 | ’ The announcer could only guess from the urgency in the Chief Constable 's voice that the situation was very , very serious . |
| 23 | In England obituaries regretted that he had not appeared more regularly for his country , while in Dunedin cricketers could only dream of the great things Jack Crawford might have done for Otago cricket … if only a World War had not interfered with something as important as cricket . |
| 24 | He predicted that the Sparc market could only benefit from the presence of a set of viable suppliers of Sparc chips — LSI Logic Corp and Cypress Semiconductor Corp having demonstrated ‘ less of a clear roadmap for the future ’ . |
| 25 | However , as part of a " fast-track " agreement made with the Bush administration in July 1991 , Congress could only vote on the agreement and not amend it . |
| 26 | Hirst ( 1981:p. 55 ) reports that informants agreed that ‘ it ’ could only refer to the wine , and not to the table . |
| 27 | After the October 1979 coup , Archbishop Romero declared that the new regime lacked any popular backing and could only count on the support of a " few foreign powers " . |
| 28 | We could only see through the windows |
| 29 | The structures of the Pentateuch were good but a stable and wealthy economic society could only flourish to the extent that Israel was obedient to the whole of the law and its commandment . |
| 30 | When man and woman were innocent the Evil One 's power was not great enough to take the world by force : he could only operate outside the human race as a whisperer of lies and delusions . |