Example sentences of "it [modal v] [adv] [be] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a nose like this it could only be one plane . |
| 2 | Yet it did not require much imagination to see that it could only be one thing : the so-called " rice-water " fluid from a cholera patient , which Dr McNab claimed was so deadly . |
| 3 | It could only be one thing , a Fax machine . |
| 4 | It could only be one source — only one source had his number here . |
| 5 | If this helps only a few teachers it would still be one step towards our goal of all participants in classes joining the Society . |
| 6 | If you have cut out more than two or three foods , and your baby gets better , then you will probably wish to test the foods to see which ones were the cause of the trouble — often it will just be one food . |