Example sentences of "[noun] could [vb infin] only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only long cloaks blowing , up on top of the young dunes , a gaze of strange cold eyes , a flash of spear-points — then the rain drove across , and Ruth could see only night . |
| 2 | Actually , they hold around 70% and under the plan could keep only 43% . |
| 3 | As Lord Hill replied to an outraged Lord Derby , whose TWW had ‘ stood on its record ’ and been brusquely dismissed , newcomers such as Harlech could offer only promises , ‘ but if promise is never to be preferred to performance , then every television company will go on for ever ’ ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 359 ) . |
| 4 | He confirmed that the Scottish Office money could cover only cash flow difficulties from the oil funds — not the producers . |
| 5 | The head of the voting commission for northern Bosnia , for example , said the Serbs could keep only 20% of Bosnia . |
| 6 | Successive NFER analysis demonstrated that the most effective selection process could select only 90% of children adequately — 10% would be misplaced . |
| 7 | England in 1920 , it testified to a similar recognition by him that the amateur ideal in the arts , however admirable in the abstract , and however rich its achievements under earlier structures of society , under the conditions of mass democracy could mean only amateurishness in technique , and thin-skinned insolence in debate . |
| 8 | When I spoke to him that Saturday evening he said he had me in mind but the paper could pay only $15 per week . |
| 9 | Lucien could smell only incense . |