Example sentences of "it [modal v] only be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warriors still hunt the jaguar in ritualised fashion ; they must stalk it for three days and it may only be killed with a wooden spear . |
| 2 | It should only be tackled by fit walkers who know what they 're doing with a map and compass . |
| 3 | Owing to its high alkaline requirement it should only be grown with those plants with the same preference . |
| 4 | All response to tracheal suctioning ceases with this dose , so it should only be given after consultation with senior medical staff . |
| 5 | She had n't needed to speak Danish to realise the contents of the bottle : the water of life … call it would you would … it was pure unadulterated spirit and it had its equivalent in every country of the world which indulged in alcohol , so potent it should only be consumed in small doses as the tiny , liqueur-sized vessels that Rune placed on the table testified … |
| 6 | It should only be allowed in clearly defined circumstances , such as those proposed by the Flowers ' Commission , which we generally support . |
| 7 | This type of stretching can clearly be dangerous if done before exercise when the muscles are cold , and so it should only be used at the end of a training session . |
| 8 | The procedure is often of great value , but it 's suggested that for two reasons it should only be used in urgent cases — both out of consideration for Land Registry staff , and to avoid the possibility of their being swamped by too many such applications , resulting in delay , which would defeat the whole purpose of the operation . |
| 9 | It should only be changed at the start of the meeting in the case of a genuine crisis . |
| 10 | Eastern Europe does not yet feature strongly in the trusts ' portfolios and according to Amanda Davidson , a partner in independent financial advisers Holden Meehan ( 071–354 2020 ) , it must only be viewed as a very long-term investment . |
| 11 | ‘ It must only be used as a last resort . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It could only be done with an unacceptable degree of course content imposition . |
| 14 | Joseph and his Spanish supporters tried to break the fiefs of the occupying generals by sending out civil commissioners , who soon found that , if they were to get anything done at all , it could only be done as subordinates of the generals on the spot . |
| 15 | I have declined to act as external examiner to candidates whose subject or thesis title seemed to be so dubious that a successful treatment of it could only be done by a candidate of exceptional brilliance ; in such cases it is likely that the candidate has had inadequate or misguided supervision . |
| 16 | It could only be damaging to commercial life . |
| 17 | It could only be determined by the justices upon whatever evidence was put before it , and the effect of that must then be put into perspective . |
| 18 | It could only be followed for a limited period of time . |
| 19 | Since jade can not be flaked , like flint and obsidian , it could only be shaped by grinding it with sand on a piece of wood for weeks or months . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It could only be assimilated to it if ‘ I disapprove of prostitution ’ were treated as a tentative way of saying that prostitution is wrong , that is , as a tentative expression of an attitude against prostitution rather than as an expression of one 's awareness of one 's own disapproval of it . |
| 22 | Above all , a ban on strikes is dangerous as it could only be implemented at the cost of Mr Gorbachev 's package of political reforms . |
| 23 | At the end of this period , it could only be overturned by a 75 per cent majority of all states attending a Treaty conference , which must include the current 26 voting members . |
| 24 | Arguably just such a change took place in the early 1980s , and the pressures encouraging it could only be understood in the context of shifts in the wider political economy . |
| 25 | It could only be given to a child in very mild doses because excessive use could cause ‘ retard growth and lasting disfiguration ’ . |
| 26 | In the context of bureaucratic assessment , however , it could only be regarded as ‘ noise in the system ’ . |
| 27 | Covered with a tarpaulin and mud , supported by thin steel stresses , it could only be discovered by someone actually walking on it . |
| 28 | Change is unlikely simply because it could only be effected by a majority in the House of Commons . |
| 29 | It could only be identified by dental records and fingerprints . |
| 30 | 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 . |