Example sentences of "[pron] can only [vb infin] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can only hope that in the course of your … investigations the evidence against me is not too incriminating . ’ |
| 2 | I can only guess that by then he had so established himself in my mind as a man who was trying to help women that I was no longer objective . |
| 3 | And , from my experience , I can only believe that in some measure , the courts are guilty of supporting the police in this attitude , for the sake of maintaining a status quo . |
| 4 | Pollini 's technique is legendary , and I can only report that in his fiftieth year ( a large retrospective mid-price boxed set please , DG ! ) , there are still no discernible chinks in the armour ( indeed , a recent Petrushka Three Movements at the RFH would appear to suggest that he is , if anything , playing better than ever ) ! |
| 5 | I can only say that on the evidence of Tesco 's cheapest , the rest will have a hard job keeping up . |
| 6 | I ca n't imagine I can only say that from my knowledge of Herefordshire as a Herefordian myself , I ca n't imagine for the life of me that there are seven thousand people locally who could remotely afford a thousand pounds per share . |
| 7 | I can only say that in dealing with derelict land , providing new jobs and building factories we dwarf anything that the Labour party ever contemplated . |
| 8 | I can only say that in your own experience you must know it 's not that easy to stop loving someone . |
| 9 | The gradient is the tan of the angle , but you can only read that off the graph if you 've got the same units . |
| 10 | We can only hope that since the incident he has had some serious therapy , both on his flying and on his mental state . |
| 11 | However , if we had a matrix of order 100 , it would have 9900 off-diagonal elements , and we can only say that at each stage the sum of the squares of these elements would decrease by 1/4950 at least ; convergence to diagonal form is likely to take very much longer than for a small matrix . |
| 12 | One can only hope that in their visits to these firms over the last few days , Ray Noorda and Roel Pieper were sufficiently persuasive . |
| 13 | Doctor goes on when one considers her potential life in terms of an academic achievement and marriage with a family , one can only say that without a shadow of doubt she has been devastated and her emotionally devastation will I fear , increase over the years , unquote . |