Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | But there is n't any evidence that he is dead , so one can only say " if " . |
| 3 | ( 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 . |
| 4 | If one could only graft the best aspects of Scimone and Devos onto one another , the roof would really lift off ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |