Example sentences of "we [modal v] only [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we should only praise conduct which needs to be stimulated in this way , even though other ( perhaps more selfish ) conduct which will be done anyway is itself good or better . |
| 2 | We should only buy woods that have sustainable sources , look first for furniture in second-hand shops , and give away old household items to be sold by charities . |
| 3 | If we get involved , we might only make things worse . ’ |
| 4 | We could only acquire areas outside our own boundary with the consent of the two other local authorities . |
| 5 | Both Dr Laurent and Dr Blackwell thought that it was a virus infection but we could only isolate bacteria in our small microscopes . |
| 6 | You could feel the crowd willing it in but it did n't make it and I was beginning to feel it was slipping away , and especially when we could only make par at the 17th . |
| 7 | But we could only take care of little children ! |
| 8 | We could only use candles it night if we were working , because they were in very short supply . |
| 9 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 10 | But a Royal Bank spokesman said : ‘ We would only expect tenders to be based on the cost per hour , not the total cost . |
| 11 | Equally , said Alison Fellows , we would only want Bordeaux wine from Bordeaux . |
| 12 | My brother and I used to have a joke — we saw how hard our father worked — that we would only consider medicine if we could become specialists in venereal diseases , because we would never have to get up in the middle of the night and we would never be out of work . |
| 13 | Headquarters who 'd decreed that we would only get work by |
| 14 | We would only need cover for centre-half and of course we have big — bad — jon for that ! |
| 15 | A SCO spokesperson said ‘ we will only license technologies that are widely accepted by our customer base ’ . |
| 16 | The one in town 's got a big sign up in the window now saying as from the 1st April , we will only do methadone prescriptions in between two and five o'clock in the afternoon , right . |
| 17 | The second thing is that erm with regard to future pro projects , Regional Railways have decreed , that we will only get work through competitive tender . |
| 18 | Regional Railways North East Investment have decreed that we will only get work |
| 19 | Similarly we can only make inferences about the nature of learning from observing these changes . |
| 20 | But eventually the truth will emerge in areas where now we can only make guesses . |
| 21 | We can only await developments . |
| 22 | We can express the above information as In fact MV must equal PT since both measure the same set of economic transactions in two different ways : indeed we can only observe P , T , and M , so V can not be calculated independently of the rest of the variables in the equation , as can be seen in our example . |
| 23 | As far as their usefulness as a measure of performance the conclusion that should be reached is that none is superior as we can only measure performance by comparison . |
| 24 | Strictly we can only measure abilities but much psychometric testing aims to infer capacities from the measured abilities , e.g. intelligence tests . |
| 25 | Here we can only paint answers with a broad brush , but a coherent picture is beginning to emerge . |
| 26 | We can only send flowers if we know of the occasion , either happy or sad . |
| 27 | We can only experience God 's happiness for ourselves when we grow in contemplative prayer . |
| 28 | As parents , sensibly , we can only follow suit . |
| 29 | Er , from the sound business point of view , we can only recycle glass , because we get what are called recycling credits , which is that the County Council gives us fifteen pounds a ton at the moment . |
| 30 | We do n't know how many solar systems there are in each galaxy because we can only see stars , not planets , but we earlier used an estimate that there may be 100 billion billion planets in the universe . |