Example sentences of "[vb mod] only be one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detention of a whole class may technically still be lawful , although it is becoming increasingly likely that a judge would have doubts about the reasonableness of this course of action where it is known that there may only be one or two culprits . |
| 2 | In a small employment agency there may only be one interviewer and you will put yourself at a disadvantage if you make a bad start . |
| 3 | There may only be one ground for divorce — irretrievable breakdown — but the only way you can prove it is by proving you 've got one of five grounds going for you : |
| 4 | In practical terms this is translated into the maxim ‘ get it in the bucket ’ , a rule of particular importance in ‘ one-off ’ rather than continuing pollutions , since there may only be one chance to sample . |
| 5 | But what I 'm saying is that there may only be one proof sense is what we as individuals derive from that proof . |
| 6 | ALTHOUGH I agree that many industries are run better by private enterprise than by the state , I think there should only be one bank . |
| 7 | FA chief executive Graham Kelly said last night : ‘ Already there are members of FIFA who believe there should only be one team from the British Isles competing in the World Cup and European Championship . |
| 8 | So look for the good ones do n't spend too much t There 'll only be one little geometry thing |
| 9 | I do n't know whether there 'll only be one or not . |
| 10 | Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration . |
| 11 | There could only be one reason why Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Health , was refusing to accept binding arbitration in the dispute . |
| 12 | However , an election was fought , and there could only be one winner . |
| 13 | ‘ There could only be one winner , and that would be The Doc , ’ Nichol has said . |
| 14 | But he was expecting a decision now , and with Angel firmly in mind there could only be one answer . |
| 15 | It could only be one source — only one source had his number here . |
| 16 | There could only be one end to these arguments which were so familiar to him . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To Etienne , this could only be one person — the blanc who had threatened to betray him to the President in the conversation which Etienne now interpreted with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 19 | ‘ I wept on the night the sidh were last seen at Tara , ’ said Dierdriu , ‘ for I knew that they could only sing for one of you , and that there could only be one ruler . |
| 20 | If it was true what he said , that she kept him at arm 's length , surely there could only be one reason for that ? |
| 21 | With the growing awareness of the scale of financing which would be necessary for urgent economic and environmental projects in Eastern Europe , there was some recognition that the EBRD could only be one of several sources of funds , but emphasis was given to its potential as a co-ordinating and technical assistance agency . |
| 22 | It could only be one thing , a Fax machine . |
| 23 | In the end there could only be one option for de Gaulle , but the time it took him to make the decision indicated how difficult it was . |
| 24 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
| 25 | I knew there could only be one person . ’ |
| 26 | With a nose like this it could only be one plane . |
| 27 | You 'd have mountains on each side of you and there 'd only be one way to go . ’ |
| 28 | For apart from Lenin 's conviction that there is always a dominant instance at a time of social stability , and a dominant contradiction at a time of social change , Althusser gives us no reason to believe that there need only be one aspect of society which bears this relation to the mode of production . |
| 29 | With a single slit there would only be one such train . |
| 30 | The road that ran along the shoreline on the eastern side of the course would be closed to traffic and for security reasons there would only be one pay-gate on that side . |