Example sentences of "we [modal v] only [vb infin] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it did go erm but Tony Mould who in actual fact is the promoter at erm Wolverhampton with Chris van Stratten , has gone into Longeaton. erm So we can only hope that he can do the job and keep them there . |
| 2 | After that we can only hope that it goes in our favour because we know it wo n't be easy . ’ |
| 3 | After these two letters , we hear no more of Osbern , and we can only conclude that he died soon after Anselm 's consecration . |
| 4 | We can only conclude that it was chiefly in the enthusiasm with which the British talked about it all . |
| 5 | Much of this research has been done by TV advertising agencies and TV organizations themselves — so we can only assume that they have used it to shape their programs to appeal to that level of consciousness . |
| 6 | We can only assume that it intends to gain acceptability and legitimacy within the ranks of the sold-out lackeys of the Labour Party , rather than working to organise the most exploited sections of ordinary people — women . |
| 7 | We can only hypothesize that they are typical . |
| 8 | R. W. Dale accepted in 1862 that the sneers against Dissenters ' Gothic had some validity but , he added , ‘ we can only say that we are inexperienced hands at this work . |
| 9 | Many of our friends thought us too independent and adventurous to leave the shores of old England , and thus plunge into foreign countries not beneath Victoria 's sway , with no protecting relatives , but we can only say that we hope this will not be our last excursion of this kind . |
| 10 | If any further immediate description of qualification is sought , we can only say that it introduces an element which the speaker does feel to be relevant to identification of a property or an entity , but subject to the constraint that the element so introduced is not actually equivalent to the item qualified . |