Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Botwin has found that a good clue to spotting a fear of intimacy is when someone can only have sex with people they do n't care about , but can confide and be intimate with people of the opposite sex who are seen as just good friends . |
| 2 | But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Though to me , Mrs. Proudie seems to be the strongest of the trinity that makes up the Bishop of Barchester — Dr. Proudie , Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope — Dr. Grantly at first dismisses her saying that ‘ when a woman is impertinent , one must only put up with it , and keep out of her way in future ’ . |
| 5 | For the moment , just imagine holding variables constant ; to control for the size of the fire , for example , one might only consider cases where an isolated car had caught fire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If one could only graft the best aspects of Scimone and Devos onto one another , the roof would really lift off ! |
| 8 | One could only hope that they would ; at any rate , they were a relatively safe form of experimentation in power sharing which , unlike a commitment to the development of parliamentary institutions , could if necessary be abandoned . |
| 9 | After the minister 's almost tender observation that ‘ the process of forming a humanistic and harmonious world outlook was now upon us ’ , one could only gape as Reesa Greenberg , from Montreal 's Concordia University , delivered an astonishing plea , entirely in earnest , that museums engage a new art audience in shopping malls . |
| 10 | Any of Lenin 's theories were unacceptable for us then , while from Marx one could only draw some methodological ways of thinking . |
| 11 | One could only enter this sacred temple to snobbishness if one had a voucher of admission and they were harder to obtain than the stars out of the sky . |
| 12 | One could only say of an electron encircling the hydrogen nucleus that it had a certain probability of being found here and a certain probability of being found there . |
| 13 | I decided that neither one was a social system and that one could only speak of social change in social systems . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One could only pray for Caroline , given her circumstances . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was so much the sort of remark one could only make to a girl friend , but Rupert took it very nicely and said with only slightly forced heartiness , ‘ Jolly good , and it 's an excuse for me to have a better meal than usual , too . |
| 19 | One could only fear him or fight him , and she had chosen to fight long ago . |
| 20 | One could only hope that the Earl of Gloucester would realise the futility of remaining isolated in Normandy when Matilda 's cousin was already anointed and crowned , an act that even the Pope acknowledged as irrevocable , despite his disapproval of Stephen 's methods . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | And it occu It seemed to me therefore that really one could only consider this level o at a strategic issue by looking at the quality of the existing landscape and it seems to me , if the proposition is that you should locate a new settlement to the erm North in the Ryedale sector , er of Greater York , then you 're effectively turning planning on its head because I think the usual approach is to try and steer development to less attractive areas rather than put them in better quality areas . |
| 23 | Dozens of angora goats were rescued from the farms , they too were neglected , with foot ingections so severe one could only walk in it 's knees . |
| 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 | This is n't the case at all , and to see why , one need only to look at the composition of the rocks involved . |
| 26 | Given the dichotomous speech model that Richard uses , one need only invert the sense to discover the true meaning . |
| 27 | Of the remaining items , the charming and fastidious Bagatelles by Gerald Finzi sound refreshingly inventive in this new version , but for entertainment of a more unbridled nature , one need only sample the Horovitz or Arnold Sonatinas to appreciate the good-humoured ribaldry of this skilled playing . |
| 28 | No longer did one have to sound right , one need only look right — or , at the very least , different . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | For proof of that , one need only read the CBI 's report which , among other things , stated that recent years have seen ’ a transformation of Britain 's manufacturing base there is now a solid base on which to build . |