Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] only the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When presented with adequate messages , even though they may contain only the minimal information necessary to locate the target , young children are capable of the necessary perceptual discrimination and message decoding to perform effectively as listeners . |
| 2 | The Renton Committee noted that definitions may take various forms : they may be exhaustive ; they may be merely inclusionary ; they may concentrate only the boundaries of the concept ; they may seek to exclude descriptive material and concentrate upon conceptual analysis ; they may rely upon general principles . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the activists in political movements that fly religious banners are rarely religious in any serious sense ; indeed , they may have only the haziest idea of the doctrines they claim to champion . |
| 4 | The countryside was so blurred that they could form only the vaguest idea of how it must look when the sun was shining . |
| 5 | They will take only the adults , which are shot . |
| 6 | Under the present system they can exercise only the powers which the central government chooses to delegate to them . |
| 7 | In other words , they can lose only the value of their shares in the company . |