Example sentences of "[that] it [modal v] only be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point about any particular tactic is that it should only be used to achieve a definite and known result . |
| 2 | The government insists that it will only be restarted if it passes stringent safety tests , and that a technical council composed of Russian , American , French and German experts will oversee its operation . |
| 3 | However , those who operate the law are well aware that it will only be respected to the extent that it conforms with public opinion : the reason why journalists and broadcasters are not prosecuted much more often for undoubted infringements of the letter of the laws of contempt and official secrecy is simply that the authorities are well aware that up-to-the-hilt enforcement of these vague laws would bring the law into further disrepute , and precipitate precisely the sort of clash between government and the press that it has been the British genius to avoid , whenever possible , by cosy arrangements . |
| 4 | Carew Hunt , who was an authority at the Foreign Office on international communism and who wrote The Theory and Practice of Communism , argues that it can only be understood in religious terms . |
| 5 | Although there is much to support this view of the origin of our modern idea of time , it is now realized that it can only be adhered to with some reservations , as we shall see . |
| 6 | The release included statements that ‘ the discovery will be relatively easy to make into a usable technology for generating heat and power ’ ; and that ‘ this generation of heat continues over long periods and is so large that it can only be attributed to a nuclear process ’ . |
| 7 | The one drawback potential buyers face is that it can only be parked on a registered site , such as a caravan park , or on land of your own . |
| 8 | In the past week , it happens , we have heard intelligent and well-meaning whites talking in apocalyptic terms about the problem of the black underclass — that it can only be solved by draconian measures of enshrining abortion or taking children away from mothers . |
| 9 | The most difficult question is what to do with the beef mountain , created , in the words of one senior Commission official , by a process which ‘ takes the best beef , freezes it and so destroys it , with the result that it can only be sold to people who can not afford it . ’ |
| 10 | A principle of continuity which is ‘ inscribed ’ in such a way that it can only be established by breaking into it , but which nothing can interrupt or change ! |
| 11 | Many people are worried that it can only be used for the disable person . |
| 12 | It is certainly worth taking advantage of the Use-Wysiwyg command on the Services menu but notice that it can only be used in SHEET mode . |
| 13 | These numbers are given in the histogram at the left , 1 meaning that a cell could only be activated through the contralateral eye , 7 that it could only be activated through the ipsilateral eye , and intermediate numbers indicating intermediate degrees of ocular dominance ; thus group 4 means that both eyes affected the neuron equally . |
| 14 | The various parties involved in the peace process had tended to ignore the issue , working on the assumption that it could only be tackled at an advanced stage of a settlement . |
| 15 | The ballistic expert 's evidence was that the defendant 's gun was fitted with a hammer block safety mechanism , which was in proper working order , so that it could only be fired if the trigger was fully pressed back . |
| 16 | However , one ca n't help thinking that it must have been a source of frustration for these early travel photographers to be confronted by the riotous colours of the far east and Africa , knowing that it could only be reproduced in black and white . |
| 17 | However , one ca n't help thinking that it must have been a source of frustration for these early travel photographers to be confronted by the riotous colours of the far east and Africa , knowing that it could only be reproduced in black and white . |
| 18 | To Escoffier the disadvantage of the bottled purée was that it could only be used for sauces , so he set about evolving a method which would ensure a supply of crushed tomatoes — by which he meant tomates concassées — for any dish which required them whenever the fresh fruit was unobtainable . |
| 19 | Instead the structure chosen for the Inquiry ensured that it could only be resolved in favour of the course supported by the government . |