Example sentences of "could only [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rostov could only nod acquiescence . |
| 2 | He could only await starvation , suffocation , exposure , simple fatigue or a merciful bolt of lightning . |
| 3 | Sabbatical leave , further training for teacher trainers themselves , and the buying in of linguistic expertise could only go part way in breaking the vicious circle . |
| 4 | She could only hope Dane would feel the same way . |
| 5 | On the big day , he could only strike air |
| 6 | In May , 1992 , the regional health authority informed Riverside Health Authority ( the district health authority ) that the unit 's transfer was being reconsidered and it could only commit capital to the unit if the case load was increased and if the unit could withstand a reduction of charitable funding . |
| 7 | So now when our crews came back from their missions and we heard snatches of their conversations about long lines of refugees , about cities being devastated , and miles and miles of fires , I remembered Kings Cross and could only feel pity for what these civilians were now enduring ; French , Dutch , German or whatever . |
| 8 | Just so long as the two of them were involved professionally , she was at ease with him , but once that link was severed , she could only feel antagonism towards him . |
| 9 | It could only mean trouble . |
| 10 | Clearly , he was anxious to see her , and that , she sensed , could only mean trouble . |
| 11 | In a society where poverty was regarded as the will of God , its relief could only bring grace . |
| 12 | If she could only stop eating . |
| 13 | However , the quarter of an inch strain gauge could only record stress on one small portion of the club , while simulation can simultaneously display stress levels on over 1,000 grid points . |
| 14 | Despite all the responsibilities and experience of these delegates , it is sad that they could only view research as relative to one problem , admittedly an important one , rather than to key issues of the service . |
| 15 | He could only offer advice . |
| 16 | But her mouth was dry with tension , and she could only manage orange juice and coffee . |
| 17 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 18 | You could feel the crowd willing it in but it did n't make it and I was beginning to feel it was slipping away , and especially when we could only make par at the 17th . |
| 19 | But the fate of the American economy , and hence the world economy , was sealed by activism where activism could only do harm — in trade policy . |
| 20 | What we need is not so much a point irregularity such as a foreign atom , because that could only facilitate movement at one point , but rather a line defect which will allow the army of molecules , as it were , to sweep forward on a broad front . |
| 21 | They could only speak Greek to the Romans , and it was for the Romans to decide whether they wanted an interpreter . |
| 22 | She tells me that when she came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1910 and met her husband Abe Moses , she could only speak Yiddish . |
| 23 | In the end , de Gaulle could only secure peace at the expense of a series of humiliating concessions to the FLN — concessions which could be justified only on the grounds that they averted the yet higher costs of not making them . |
| 24 | Her father was on the brink of alcoholism , a pathetic figure who could only face life if he had a bottle in his hand . |
| 25 | Matallana , who emphasized that he was not a communist and had no regrets for his past anti-guerrilla role , stated that the M-19 had proved itself to be politically honest and now shared his belief that Colombia could only achieve change via the polls . |
| 26 | But the wave of publications of this kind which began in the 1850s could only gather strength as the century went on and public interest in foreign policy questions grew . |
| 27 | Even the greatest nobles could only gain admittance by sending in presents of large sums of money : ‘ whosoever gets enamoured of her gets sucked into the whirlpool of her demands , ’ writes Dargah Quli Khan , ‘ and brings ruin upon himself and his house . |
| 28 | In a similar position would be a street trader , who regularly deals with a certain wholesaler and who could only gain credit from him by guaranteeing to purchase his goods . |
| 29 | Mugabe said on May 2 , 1990 , that the government would amend the Constitution to speed up and simplify the redistribution of land , following the lapsing in April 1990 of the entrenched clauses of the Lancaster House agreement of 1980 , which stated that the government could only buy land which was freely offered for sale . |
| 30 | Therefore , if you had a £20,000 mortgage and wanted to raise a further £8,000 for home improvements , you could only claim tax relief on the first £20,000 . |