Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] be [vb pp] only [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the society they inhabit they will have to choose at the university level between physics and hi-tech ; philosophy and literature may be pursued only as hobbies . |
| 2 | He reminded the bench that their sentence should be based only on the seriousness of the offence , and should not take into account the tragic consequences . |
| 3 | Similarly , a test which requires a response to a spoken word or sentence should be used only for children who have reasonably good speech perception . |
| 4 | This course should be adopted only in case of absolute necessity , and you should be able to plan out your time so that it is not necessary . |
| 5 | While ordinary Scotch is made from a mixture of grains blended with the finer malts , a malt whisky must be made only from malted barley . |
| 6 | The principal difficulty I have on this aspect of the case is that in Mr. Lester 's submission reference to Parliamentary material as an aid to interpretation of a statutory provision should be allowed only with leave of the court and where the court is satisfied that such a reference is justifiable : ( a ) to confirm the meaning of a provision as conveyed by the text , its object and purpose ; ( b ) to determine a meaning where the provision is ambiguous or obscure ; or ( c ) to determine the meaning where the ordinary meaning is manifestly absurd or unreasonable . |
| 7 | Early work is often missing from an artist 's oeuvre , while student work or juvenilia may be saved only by chance or possibly by a devoted family . |
| 8 | Theft should be charged only in very clear cases . |
| 9 | However , fearing that the UN force would legitimize the loss of its territory to Serbia , Croatia also continued to insist that the force should be deployed only on the 560-km front lines and only for a period of six months . |
| 10 | This argument appealed to what I called the ideal of protected expectation , that collective force should be used only in accordance with standards chosen and read through procedures the community as a whole knows will be used for that purpose , procedures so widely acknowledged that they are matters of general social or professional convention . |
| 11 | Trusts depended on actions in personam ; action could be brought only against the trustee . |
| 12 | Mr Mulcahy 's 22 per cent figure could be justified only by including rentals of new TVs , video recorders and other hired electrical equipment . |
| 13 | Where the plaintiff sues as an assignee the action shall be commenced only in a court in which the assignor might , under the above rule , have commenced the action but for the assignment ( Ord 4 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 14 | Fourthly , the 1966 White Paper made it plain that at that time it was the government 's intention that the polytechnics should remain primarily teaching institutions ; as the DES notes of guidance subsequently indicated , research would be justified only in so far as it was of educational value to the teaching staff and of benefit to industry and business . |
| 15 | At the level of the Governor of the state to which that city belongs , the riot will be regarded only as a nuisance ; above that the king or the premier will hardly be aware of it at all , and to the whole world , it will be trivial . |
| 16 | This means that an extra search will be added only for every additional ( 2n + 1 ) or ( 3n + 1 ) records , where n is the number of records per track . |
| 17 | This is because its chronicity can be achieved only by delivering a massive insult or repeated dosing so that it takes a long time for the acute ulcer to heal and often leads to the death of the animal in the acute phase . |
| 18 | River , meadow , and woodland may lead the spectator to predict ‘ Arcadia among fertility , loveliness , industry and wealth ’ , but the illusion can be sustained only by those who keep their distance , for such ‘ picturesque villages are generally the perennial hotbeds of fever and ague , of squalid penury , sottish profligacy , dull discontent too stale for words ’ . |
| 19 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 20 | Deceit may be practised only on a human mind . |
| 21 | Walesa 's call was supported by the Citizens ' Parliamentary Club , a pro-Walesa parliamentary caucus , and by the Centre Alliance and the Green Party , but was opposed by the Democratic Party and the Democratic Left parliamentary groups which argued that the dissolution issue should be broached only after the electoral law and constitutional amendments had been adopted . |
| 22 | As with the ‘ over-arching body for audit governance' , a new bureaucracy should be created only on the basis of clear evidence of need . |
| 23 | Even before the war was won , he had been afraid that peace might be associated only with the concept of " efficiency " , and in radio talks in 1946 he spoke of the necessity for maintaining the " spiritual organization " as well as the " material organization " of Europe . |
| 24 | It followed from this that real international peace could be attained only through far-reaching political reform within the European States and the weakening or destruction of the monarchical , aristocratic and military influences which had hitherto dominated them . |
| 25 | Clearly , such a drastic change in the law could be undertaken only by the legislature . |
| 26 | The programme 's drafting commission voted 7 to 2 for the proposition that the national question could be solved only by socialist revolution and that the party slogan should not be new frontiers , but the abolition of all frontiers . |
| 27 | The notepaper is topped with an authentic Buckingham Palace crest and details about the attitude of the princess would be known only to close friends and aides . |
| 28 | b ) if the Council determine as aforesaid , any discretion as to the benefits payable to or in respect of him which the scheme confers on the Council shall be exercised only with the consent of the Secretary of State given with the approval of the Treasury . |
| 29 | Any group can make a bid and will be considered seriously , but assistance will be given only for one management — employee buy-out team per company . |
| 30 | The front engine will be used only for take-off and climb to cruising altitude , around 20,000 feet , Mazzucchelli predicts — and then shut down , though it will be kept heated in case an emergency re-start becomes necessary . |