Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] [modal v] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | When such a plan has been lodged it will only be necessary for a buyer to search against the plot he is buying on the appropriate form for a search of part ( Form 94B ) , indicating thereon the plot or flat number " as shown on the estate development plan lodged in the Registry on the " — no plan being then necessary as would be the case if no estate plan had been lodged . |
| 2 | They 've been told they can only get they 're money back from the sale of assets , when the comnpany goes into receivership at the end of April . |
| 3 | EVER bought a sofa or a bed and been told you 'll only have to wait two or three weeks for delivery , and ten weeks later you 're still waiting … ? |
| 4 | Platt was left out of Juventus 's opening match last Sunday and has been told he may only play in Juventus ' home game . |
| 5 | As I investigated further , it seemed to become clear that if this question could be answered it could only be in a complex way . |
| 6 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 7 | a blockage yeah it goes right across you , you 've got you 've got catarrh and I 'm thinking you can only have catarrh if you 've got a , you know if you had a real bad cold and or the flu or something but she said it 's all in there . |
| 8 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 9 | If the referee has any doubt as to whether or not a try would have been scored he can only award a penalty , exactly the decision in the final . |
| 10 | ‘ We were told we would only be in this house temporarily when we moved here . |
| 11 | ‘ We were told we would only be in this house temporarily when we moved here . |
| 12 | The sums involved made it difficult to prevent the inflows from boosting the money supply by selling bonds , and in any case , if this were attempted it would only prevent interest rates from falling and keep the currency attractive to those anxious to get out of dollars . |
| 13 | Whatever he may think he is doing he can only be discovering , like our romantic traveller , but perhaps much less aware of what he is doing , that in the last resort his desires outweigh his fears . |
| 14 | If the remedy is not indicated it will be ignored by the body and will have no effect , and if it is indicated it can only be beneficial . |
| 15 | 10 A passenger travelling by boat from Jamaica to Trinidad was told he can only take with him a case of volume 8m3 . |