Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [modal v] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 2 | I laughed not scornfully or anything , but just as if it was a joke which I 'd only half got . |
| 3 | Our respective manners proved so widely different , that it would have been quite presumptuous in me to do anything but separate from an undertaking upon which I could only have been a clog . ’ |
| 4 | In the course of work on the Mesozoic rocks of the High Atlas mountains of Morocco , I came across some deposits in the Upper Jurassic near Imouzzer-des-Ida-ou-Tanane which I could only interpret as having resulted from the effect of storms on lagoonal sediments ( plates 4.5 and 4.6 ) . |
| 5 | I was about to call a doctor and then , suddenly , I had a feeling which I can only describe as — excuse me — ecstatic . |
| 6 | The quality buildings will be let — Broadgate is now 95 per cent leased — but slowly developers will realise they have to convert the bad space which I can only say is a lot of classified DIY . ’ |
| 7 | Well — I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments , two of which I can only describe , the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me . |
| 8 | But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing . |
| 9 | Even so , I understand he negotiated a substantial increase : an initiative on which I can only congratulate him . |
| 10 | There is a large and technical economic literature on these issues which I can only summarise here , suggesting where interested readers can continue . |
| 11 | What has not been developed to the same extent is the suggestiveness of his work on the novel for theories of genre , a suggestiveness which I will only touch on here , but which seems to me to be worth a great deal more investigation and discussion . |
| 12 | Removing those that remain is a fairly drastic step , which you should only embark on if you have good reason to suspect chemical sensitivity . |
| 13 | Each driving the other towards the kind of frustration which you can only feel for a family member . |
| 14 | She then sought a fair rent , which she could only do if she were a tenant , but Mr Street of course argued that she was only a licensee . |
| 15 | Ask closed questions , to which she can only say ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , eg ‘ Do you like the wooden handles ? ’ |
| 16 | Her favourite food is mussels which she can only find in deeper water . |
| 17 | Is it any coincidence that pharmaceutical companies have found medicines ( which we have to keep taking and paying for ) rather than a vaccine ( which we would only have to take once ) ? |
| 18 | L-Fields are links in a ‘ chain of authority ’ which starts with the simplest living forms , runs upward through all life on this planet to the most complex form we know — man — and then extends outward into space and upward to an ‘ infinite authority ’ , about which we can only speculate . |
| 19 | There are ‘ hidden ’ factors about which we can only speculate , such as the direct effects on sand-eel stocks from the greatly increased shoals of herring and mackerel which are the result of recent bans on fishing for these species . |
| 20 | This is something which we can only discuss vaguely in terms of chance and probabilities , or if we believe in divine determinism dismiss fatalistically as God 's will . |
| 21 | We think we can , although any such conclusions ( which we can only sketch out here ) will inevitably be inherently controversial . |
| 22 | 1 This story contains other stories , which we can only guess at . |
| 23 | It was a pursuit which we could only continue , of course , so long as we managed to sell our films to commercial television simply on the strength of their entertainment value . |
| 24 | A superficially similar case may differ from this one in some subtle matter of detail the relevance of which we will only recognize when we encounter it in the concrete . |
| 25 | Now their country has become a prison which they can only leave with special permission — a situation which is guaranteed to fuel bitterness and resentment against the hardline regime . |
| 26 | On the other hand it is equally important not to minimize the effects of sentencing practice on penal policy by assuming that the courts are at the mercy of pressures over which they have no control , and to which they can only passively respond . |
| 27 | And at times of new issues , they will often be committed to purchasing very large amounts of stock which they can only expect to sell over a period of weeks ; during which period they are exposed to the risk of capital loss if prices fall . |
| 28 | The factor which clinched their decision was the discovery of a house which they could only afford to buy if all three pooled their resources . |
| 29 | Under pressure and under personal attack , the planners retreated into a legalistic interpretation of their role , making much of the requirements of various Acts of Parliament most notably The Sewerage ( Scotland ) Act of 1968 which , they argued , obliged them to service all new houses , something which they could only do by concentrating properties in particular places in order to reduce the cost of such an exercise . |
| 30 | Tales , too , of his prowess at cricket — " More long than stop " — and his magic rhyme which he would only ever say twice to any one person . |