Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb mod] only have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is inconceivable that Eliza would have married Wickham , just as Lucy could only have married George . |
| 2 | Jeff can only have three or four . |
| 3 | Both Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth accept that Mr. Wickham would only have agreed to marry for £10,000 which was seen as a vast amount of money in those days . |
| 4 | Harry may only have a walk-on part at Birdland , but he 's still the star of the show . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is probably all to the good that I did n't have this book with me , since the ready availability of a thick volume containing every registration number ever carried by every aeroplane currently registered or based in the United Kingdom could only have prompted further unanswerable questions as to why anyone could therefore need to write them down . |
| 7 | John Poole was a man of high Tory opinions , and the motive for introducing him to Coleridge and Southey can only have been mischievous . |
| 8 | The entry into Jerusalem can only have been made with the calculated design of identifying himself , very specifically in the eyes of the populace , with the expected Messiah — in other words , with the rightful king , the ‘ anointed one ’ . |
| 9 | True , she 'd escaped Fincara , but Fincara would only have bewitched her , not killed her . |
| 10 | Also , it can not be ignored that Marco did n't have many options , since Eddie was about to kill him , and Marco 's actions were in self-defence : I think that Marco may only have beaten Eddie up had he not drawn the knife , but not killed him . |
| 11 | Bronze moulds for elaborate axes of the late Bronze Age in Britain could only have been used in the lost-wax process . |
| 12 | Described as " quiet , genteel and beautiful — a real aristocrat " Maria can only have compounded her family 's displeasure when she eloped with a volatile Irish sheep shearer . |
| 13 | We are talking here , of course , about amounts of money that the uncles , aunts and cousins back in Frome could only have dreamed of . |
| 14 | ‘ Viz will only have a certain life before everyone starts to become bored by it . |
| 15 | It says Windows NT will only have a 12% share of the server market — 11% in revenue — by 1997 , by which time Unix should have 64% , or 62% by value . |
| 16 | The enlargement of the EEC to include Sweden , Finland , Austria and Switzerland can only have the effect of lowering the common denominator still further , and of weakening the position of those states which still have national interests to pursue in the world . |
| 17 | There , there not a teaspoon , one for me and Clare can only have one . |