Example sentences of "[modal v] only have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |
| 2 | Very few readers will notice this discrepancy , but all are flicked and jabbed at and irritated — those circling insects — by contradiction , by undetermination followed by overdetermination of reasons , by the narrator 's fuss over details which do n't matter , his youthful sententiousness about women ( ‘ the depths of the female heart ’ ) and other irrelevancies , his moralizing , his way of wantonly bleeding a robust narrative with ‘ However , that may only have seemed so ’ , his ‘ I have already described ’ when he has n't , his promises to explain later which are n't kept when the reader does n't want explanation anyhow , he wants the story . |
| 3 | But Mr Lawson and the Bank may only have bought a week for sterling . |
| 4 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 5 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 6 | You may only have seen the property once , and for all sorts of emotive reasons , may have fallen in love with the place . |
| 7 | Differences of opinion exist among scholars ; sometimes the appearance gives very little to go on — details may have been rubbed off or we may only have a small fragment of a large object to examine ; two or more origins may be possible contenders and it may be impossible to decide which on stylistic grounds alone . |
| 8 | So sometimes a horse may only have a bad habit in relation to a certain rider , and in that case it will be the rider who will need the extra training . |
| 9 | It must be remembered that a child with an IQ of 50 may only have the mental age of nine when they leave school , although their social abilities may be reasonably comparable with their actual age . |
| 10 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 11 | For many situations which you will face as a manager it is safe to assume that your audience may only have time to grasp perhaps just three ideas . |
| 12 | It assumes administrative efficiency will suffice when this may only have the most limited of practical effects . |
| 13 | The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times . |
| 14 | Elves , like dragons , are embedded deeply in several different traditions of North-West Europe , and the inconsistencies of those traditions may only have made Tolkien itch to create a Zusammenhang . |
| 15 | It may be asked why it was necessary to go to the trouble of carving a model which by all accounts may only have been used once , when the same procedure , in fine day would produce a mould directly . |
| 16 | So individuals may only have rights against their government in the strong sense of being immune to the countervailing claims of general utility if those rights may be derived from that overriding principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 17 | However , you may only have one General , so you will not be able to use certain characters together . |
| 18 | They may be parents or they may only have letters after their name , but what they have in common is this : they know that intellectual perfection and the criteria for measuring it are chimeras . |
| 19 | This in turn suggests that class politics of the old sort may only have been the politics of modernism in its classic , now discredited phase . |
| 20 | And there may only have been one clock in the town where they worked and that would have been on the town hall or the church . |
| 21 | ‘ Relax ’ may only have become a scandal when the BBC in belated confusion ( and in response to teasing video clips ) banned it , but singers Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford promote an explicitly gay image , and ‘ Two Tribes ’ was a pointed response to nuclear defence policy . |
| 22 | It may only have been the milestone of hitting thirty , but I could n't help feeling that it was proof that life was passing me by . |
| 23 | What you have to remember if tempted to copy any ‘ late-hit ’ pose , is that the professional will move his clubhead through almost half a circle while his hands may only have moved about 18 inches from the right to left thigh , and then only because he has already got the clubhead moving fast . |
| 24 | In some bedrooms , there may be enough space to fit a shower cubicle , but others may only have space for a bedroom basin . |
| 25 | Fruit juices contain natural sugars anyway , so added sugar may only have the effect of making your child expect oversweet drinks . |
| 26 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 27 | When I asked Alison what qualities you need to be a marketing controller she said , ‘ you need to be able to establish immediate empathy with the people you are talking to as you may only have a short time to get the feedback you need . |
| 28 | At the stage in the growth of a scientific discovery when it is no longer just internal but has not yet become a formal paper , then the scholarly interchange would have depended on whom individuals knew or knew of , the letter writing would be unmanaged and survive by chance ( often only one side of the story ) and , due to concern that ideas should not be stolen , may only have taken place at a late stage of the discovery process . |
| 29 | So when was the last time you made a presentation and then what I 'd like you to do and there are three lines there you may only have one you may have two , three , four objectives |
| 30 | Harry may only have a walk-on part at Birdland , but he 's still the star of the show . |