Example sentences of "if one [modal v] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one could only graft the best aspects of Scimone and Devos onto one another , the roof would really lift off ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |