Example sentences of "we can only " in BNC.
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| 1 | While over 2,300 people wait on death rows countrywide to see if they will die or not , we can only hope that the US comes to its senses soon . |
| 2 | In this briefing paper we can only illustrate some of the needs which older people may have . |
| 3 | We can only think about it . |
| 4 | This is the same young man who bit the ear of the governor — and we can only meet and get to know him in the novel itself . |
| 5 | We can only imagine it . |
| 6 | We can only hope that the future will see technological advance : perhaps overhead power lines will carry DC in preference to AC to the extent that converters are used to generate AC domestically or industrially . |
| 7 | We face Labour 's jibe that the Government holds all our revenue and that we can only save 20 per cent from our house sales . ’ |
| 8 | What the ‘ fixing ’ amounted to we can only guess . |
| 9 | Why this was so we can only guess . |
| 10 | We can only pass an Act of Parliament and give it to them with a slap on the back and a ‘ best of British luck ’ : ‘ Here 's your constitution , ’ we say , ‘ now do what you like with it ; you can because you are now independent . ’ |
| 11 | We can only pray and hope it 'll turn out for the best . ’ |
| 12 | Tillyard , one of the foremost Milton scholars of his day , had suggested that we can only fully understand Paradise Lost when we understand the man who wrote it . |
| 13 | When you look at the way our railways are run , we can only be grateful that British Rail no longer owns hotels , particularly when you recall what a wonderful training ground the old British Transport Hotels used to be . |
| 14 | And remember … we can only be there ‘ Providing You Care ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Absurdity ’ would be reached when we can only afford a one-ship navy , a one-tank army and a one-bomber air force ! |
| 16 | ‘ We can only be pessimists before breakfast . ’ |
| 17 | The phenomena it explains are given to us in experience ; they are not produced by us , their causes are not directly knowable , and we can only hypothesize , in the terms of our theoretical framework , about what they are . |
| 18 | We can only say a little about how that story ended . |
| 19 | ‘ We can only try , ’ Elinor said , giving Otley the best biscuits . |
| 20 | We have n't quite got the hang of it , square houses and straight roads , with our little round huts and coracles we can only go round in circles . |
| 21 | But until that time comes , we can only keep the laws relating to spiritual purity which are unconnected with the Temple . |
| 22 | We can only carry out her wishes , we can only try . ’ |
| 23 | We can only carry out her wishes , we can only try . ’ |
| 24 | In the absence of extensive survey material on the attitudes of DUP voters , we can only reason backwards from the platform of the Party to the interests of the people who support it . |
| 25 | As she seems to have stayed on the island for only three weeks , however , being moved back to Stirling when the English army left Scotland at the end of September , we can only conclude that these are testimony not to Mary as an infant prodigy , but to her fascination as a source of romance and legend . |
| 26 | R. W. Dale accepted in 1862 that the sneers against Dissenters ' Gothic had some validity but , he added , ‘ we can only say that we are inexperienced hands at this work . |
| 27 | We can only imagine that the long hours between distractions dragged interminably . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , you do n't look a bit like Mr Harris , ’ she said , ‘ so we can only assume … ’ ’ |
| 29 | We can only augment the ABC with new letters in similar style ( as in the now outmoded 1960s Initial Teaching Alphabet ) or by starting again with a modern , simple , phonetic alphabet . |
| 30 | After that we can only hope that it goes in our favour because we know it wo n't be easy . ’ |