Example sentences of "britain [vb mod] only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was also true that Great Britain could only view events in Europe with detachment or indifference if the balance of power there remained undisturbed . |
| 2 | Britain could only obtain these goods by intervening in an already well-established trading pattern , taking much-desired cotton cloth from South Asia and using this to purchase spices from the East Indies . |
| 3 | Bronze moulds for elaborate axes of the late Bronze Age in Britain could only have been used in the lost-wax process . |
| 4 | But Britain will only succeed when its political leaders start treating voters as informed citizens with shared concerns , not as ignorant consumers to be manipulated . |
| 5 | We all know that Britain will only become a world class economy if we have a strong well-balanced manufacturing base , employing skilled , trained workforce , a workforce which has decent conditions of employment and has legal protection , but we do still have some members within the service sector and within the professional rank and what has happened in the last five or six years to those members ? |
| 6 | ‘ Britain can only support so much research , ’ he says . |