Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it be [verb] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1990 the United States announced that it was giving only $1,000,000 to the government 's economic recovery programme ( ERP , launched in April 1989 ) instead of the $6,000,000 indicated earlier and the $13,000,000 requested by Canada , the chair of the support group . |
| 2 | The advertisement says that it is supplied only to military personnel , but these are general adverts and I doubt whether that is the case . |
| 3 | I justify this departure from intention by advancing a theory that Skye was obviously once a part of the mainland : a study of the map confirms that it is separated only by a narrow channel , Kyle Rhea , the configuration of the shores on either side matching as though torn apart in ages past . |
| 4 | A simple coding system can be used since it is required only to indicate which of several options has been adopted . |
| 5 | Traditional civil-law interpretation would say that it is : the words amount to a demonstratio rather than a causa ; the testator is suggesting a means of satisfying the liability under trust rather than indicating that it is to arise only if the estate of Gaius Seius is entered . |
| 6 | But this does not mean that it is fitted only to be used on matters at the extreme end of the spectrum of abstraction — that it can , for instance , discuss people only in so far as they are rational beings , or sets of behaviour-patterns , or immortal souls . |
| 7 | One of the rockets has been destroyed and it is decided only Valerie and one other member of the group can return home , leaving perhaps no hope of rescue for the others . |