Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [pron] [vb mod] only [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milan , one point ahead of Sampdoria at the top of the table , also have teething problems , trying to rotate half a dozen foreigners when they can only use three ! |
| 2 | and there 's twelve hours so we 'll only need a thousand and two hundred |
| 3 | Some people who have become severely deafened do not wear rubber soles on their shoes because they can only feel the vibration through the floor when wearing leather soles . |
| 4 | NB If an advertisement says , ‘ write for application form ’ then keep the letter very brief and without personal details as you will only have to repeat them on the form later . |
| 5 | Allen Watkins used to say that there was a core of truth hidden in the heart of all folk tales and legends if we can only find it amongst the accumulations which have occurred over time : the difficulty arose in finding out what it was — of winnowing the wheat from the chaff . |
| 6 | We 've still got two big tins , them ginormous ones so you 'll only need four of them forty five P ones . |
| 7 | This has tended to reinforce dominant assumptions that employment is of lesser importance to young women because they will only get married and have children later and consequently that young women were of lesser importance to the sociologist . |
| 8 | Direct visualization of vector and covector components in space–time meets difficulties with the time components because we can only draw Euclidean spaces in our three-dimensional world . |
| 9 | Francis told me nothing of his intentions so I can only guess . ’ |
| 10 | When , however , we took time out and discussed it , we realized that the fact that we were more diverse offered us a strength against our competitors if we could only capitalize on it . |