Example sentences of "[adv] we [modal v] only [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we should only praise conduct which needs to be stimulated in this way , even though other ( perhaps more selfish ) conduct which will be done anyway is itself good or better . |
| 2 | Strictly we can only measure abilities but much psychometric testing aims to infer capacities from the measured abilities , e.g. intelligence tests . |
| 3 | Similarly we can only make inferences about the nature of learning from observing these changes . |
| 4 | But eventually the truth will emerge in areas where now we can only make guesses . |
| 5 | Now we can only get Lux made locally out of God only knows what . ’ |
| 6 | Here we can only paint answers with a broad brush , but a coherent picture is beginning to emerge . |
| 7 | We can express the above information as In fact MV must equal PT since both measure the same set of economic transactions in two different ways : indeed we can only observe P , T , and M , so V can not be calculated independently of the rest of the variables in the equation , as can be seen in our example . |