Example sentences of "[conj] one [modal v] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The authors counsel that one should only use indicators which yield convergent results , and they make the useful point that ‘ while some of the output indicators are clearly linked to scientific production , their links with scientific progress are more complex and problematic . ’ |
| 3 | I decided that neither one was a social system and that one could only speak of social change in social systems . |
| 4 | I have also heard many environmentalists argue with passion that the cause of animal rights is subsidiary to the cause of protecting the environment , and that one will only follow from the other . |
| 5 | My excuse is that one can only understand the unknown in terms of the known . |
| 6 | … when highly stringent controls are imposed upon a study , the nature of the control tends to force the methods of presentation into such similar formats that one can only expect the " no significant differences " that are in fact found . |
| 7 | In an eminently Benjaminian vein , Kienholz has said that one can only understand a ‘ society by going through its junk stores and flea markets ’ . |
| 8 | But there is n't any evidence that he is dead , so one can only say " if " . |
| 9 | ( 110 , p.225 n.2 ) Possibly such claims were put forward even earlier , although one can only infer them from the appearance of closed crowns on the English coinage in the reign of Henry VII . |
| 10 | A consistently competitive rate is part of the deal , and one need only look at Abbey National 's interest rates over the past few years . |
| 11 | As Bateson ( 1973 ) argues , the psychological frame appropriate in discussing play or games is more akin to a picture frame than to the logical frame of a mathematical set : what is outside the picture frame is irrelevant and one can only make judgements of comparison and contrast on matters within the frame . |
| 12 | And one can only put the sudden drying-up of mounts for champion jockey Peter Scudamore down to whispers about him reaching an age when he 's beginning to wonder what 's on the other side of the racing fence . |
| 13 | The three culprits are depicted , Welsh Nationalists of otherwise impeccable character and one can only admire their somewhat misguided coup . |
| 14 | Moser ( 1978 ) typically deals with the way information is broken down in interpretation from sentences and context into meaning , and one can only presume that she proposes a similar process for the reconstruction of the message in the second language . |
| 15 | But Rennenkampf did not move and one can only conjecture why . |
| 16 | Considering the wretchedness for which these floating prisons later became infamous it was an unhappy endorsement and one can only assume that his short-term view of a particular problem was allowed to obscure his longer term aims . |
| 17 | Their estates and assets were seized for the imperial treasury , and one can only speculate on the possible consequences . |
| 18 | In stratigraphy One is always using one ruler to measure another and one can only call a deposit exceptional if we have something more " normal " with which one can make a comparison . |
| 19 | Until an hour or two ago I certainly did n't know that this problem had arisen , but the date April has been on the lips of my er Honourable Friend er and of the Noble Minister er I used to represent part of the City of Leeds and Honourable er a and Noble Lord you 'll have heard recently of behaviour at Elland Road Football Ground on the death of Sir Matt Busby and one can only wonder what sort of people er we 're dealing with , but many of them arrive at Leeds City Station on the day of a match and they come early and they have then to get their way to Elland Road and there are often real problems . |
| 20 | If one could only graft the best aspects of Scimone and Devos onto one another , the roof would really lift off ! |
| 21 | Population was increasing , trade and industry growing ; it was an expanding economy with wonderful new opportunities for making money if one could only strike the right spot . |
| 22 | The great problem of uniformitarianism was always the amount of time needed to explain what was known to have happened in the history of the earth ( including the evolution of all its species ) if one could only Postulate present processes . |
| 23 | And Peggy now patted her grandmother 's hand , saying , ‘ If one could only remember the nice things , the pleasant things , and let others go by ; but it 's always the reverse : the unpleasant things grow like weeds and choke any nice memory you might harbour . ’ |
| 24 | Unfortunately all the evidence of the last 12 months suggests that while Gooch 's batting ability remains invaluable , England would do better under a more imaginative skipper , if one could only be found . |
| 25 | Many asylum seekers are middle class , but one need only visit Brick lane to see Bangladeshi people who are suffering a great deal because they are poor . |
| 26 | There seems to be no logical reason for ignoring some and then picking on one , but one can only suppose that , having missed , for whatever reason , their first opportunity of causing trouble , the authorities were just glad to get a second chance . |
| 27 | One can not judge which of these views is preferable , because one can only infer the motives of the landowners from their actions ; we do not know if they were genuinely frightened by the memory of the revolt , or for how long any such fear persisted . |
| 28 | Descent was traced in the female line because when pairing was temporary and informal , it was not possible to reckon it in any other way , as one could only be sure of the identity of the mother of the child , not that of the father . |