Example sentences of "[modal v] only have [be] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even so , she felt sure that it was something to do with her , that there should only have been the Maxwell girl there . |
| 4 | The French had obviously suffered a debâcle but , in itself , the opening up of the frontier with China might only have been a prelude to Chinese invasion and ensuing catastrophe . |
| 5 | It might only have been the light reflected from his costume , yet once again he seemed embarrassed by her presence . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 8 | Rune muttered what could only have been a string of invective in his own language as he released his hold on her . |
| 9 | Just before ten o'clock , in the stillness of the night , I heard the noise of a motor car : it could only have been the doctor 's . |
| 10 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |
| 11 | The South Saxons whose numbers we shall never know with any accuracy , built up a complex Wealden farming system , backed by a communication network that can only have been an extension of the lesser economic roads of the Romano-Britons . |
| 12 | ‘ It can only have been the smell of the mothballs . ’ |
| 13 | Between these extremes conditions varied endlessly , with so many towns sharing the social structure of their rural environments that cases of exceptional wealth can only have been the outcome of special circumstances . |