Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | because otherwise you or I can only take your best estimate . |
| 2 | Field barns were built to serve land lying some distance from the farmstead , or which could only be reached from it by way of steep hills . |
| 3 | If that were so , there would scarcely be a government in the last 100 years which could be regarded as legitimate , but it is those uses of power and law which seem to betray or which can only be reasonably explained by a contempt for or at least an impatience with the principles of limited government and a belief that the rightness of the policies to be executed excuse or justify the methods whereby they are executed . |
| 4 | There was the frightening sensation of being sucked into an invisible vortex , some dark cavern of the senses where she could no longer stand back and resist , where she could only feel … |
| 5 | Or you might only need occasional access when you ca n't guarantee being near a PC with a LAN card . |
| 6 | But do n't go around being cross or you 'll only make enemies for yourself . |
| 7 | It 's not that good , cos it 's either Final Fight you have to be or you can only pick out of and or it 's Final Fight guy where you can only be or Guy . |
| 8 | Well we we often had people coming and asking to use our telephone , because either the telephones were erm all out of order , or you could only dial for emergencies . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't let her know what you 've found out , or she 'll only clam up . |
| 10 | then he or she can only be forced to hand back the item if the price it cost him or her is paid in compensation [ Art . |
| 11 | i Hero : This child believes that he or she can only obtain love and appreciation through achievement . |
| 12 | If the manager lacks the chance to engage in a fully collegial approach , if he or she can only find or make time for the essential step of ingesting or thinking new ideas in an atmosphere of enforced professional seclusion , does this obscure his or her clarity of mind ? |
| 13 | This did n't matter so much for physiological or anatomical studies , where one could only work with small numbers of animals anyhow ; but for biochemistry , when larger numbers were needed , it made progress very slow . |
| 14 | Differences of opinion exist among scholars ; sometimes the appearance gives very little to go on — details may have been rubbed off or we may only have a small fragment of a large object to examine ; two or more origins may be possible contenders and it may be impossible to decide which on stylistic grounds alone . |
| 15 | Even where there may only be two or three partners , the case for incorporating a power of expulsion in the partnership agreement is strong . |
| 16 | Within a specific environment problems may be solved or they may only minimised depending upon external constraints imposed . |
| 17 | They may be parents or they may only have letters after their name , but what they have in common is this : they know that intellectual perfection and the criteria for measuring it are chimeras . |
| 18 | She took two silver coins out of the tin then put it where it could only be found by her . |
| 19 | And I tell you one of my early recollections when I went to school , I 'm going back now , was er across the way from where I lived , was a family and their name was , I remember the name although I 'd only be about nine . |
| 20 | ‘ I had every intention of becoming a pianist or conductor but in a great flash of realisation I decided that I would only ever be a mediocre musician and went off to study drama . ’ |
| 21 | But then I told myself that I would only have been his mistress , in a foreign country , and for a short time , until he grew tired of me . |
| 22 | But I 've decided that I 'll only be in the band as long as I 'm doing other things as well as . |
| 23 | I 've told the teeniest weeniest white lie and said that I will only be staying with you for a week or so . " |
| 24 | You will understand that I can only employ you meantime in the capacity of reader , till all this notoriety has died down . |
| 25 | Is this a sacred thing , that I can only go forward ? |
| 26 | of soap and sweat , that I can only |
| 27 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 28 | And in that I can only speak for the Harrogate District erm but the situation may well apply to other districts . |
| 29 | ‘ I always felt , ’ she said , ‘ that life 's not worth living , that I could only contemplate little bits of it and keep my sanity ; and those bits I selected carefully — the sun on a breakfast-table , girls dressing , flowers … ’ |
| 30 | She told me : ‘ I was really upset to read that an ‘ insider ’ , whoever that might be , had said I was so busy creating an image for myself in the music industry and trying to be a film star that I could only do four episodes of the latest series . |