Example sentences of "[modal v] only [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ There could only be one winner , and that would be The Doc , ’ Nichol has said . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | It could only be one thing , a Fax machine . |
| 34 | ‘ 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 . |
| 35 | But he was expecting a decision now , and with Angel firmly in mind there could only be one answer . |
| 36 | It could only be one source — only one source had his number here . |
| 37 | With a nose like this it could only be one plane . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | There could only be one reason why Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Health , was refusing to accept binding arbitration in the dispute . |
| 40 | If it was true what he said , that she kept him at arm 's length , surely there could only be one reason for that ? |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | There could only be one end to these arguments which were so familiar to him . |
| 43 | Du n no yeah but it do n't mean to say that there 's a lot come out , it could only be that lot , could n't it ? |
| 44 | As friends were now pointing out , that could only be good news . |
| 45 | This could only be good news and we were thus able to turn our attention to even remoter areas of the north . |
| 46 | To her horror , Folly saw Luke nod and turn away down the corridor , leaving her alone with this sinister whispering woman who seemed to take it for granted that she was meekly going to strip off and join in what could only be some kind of orgy . |
| 47 | It could only be some quality in the stillness of the air which made the voice carry so beautifully . |
| 48 | Knowing that it could only be bad news , Harry , who had been standing in the doorway , stepped forward and put his arm round Cora-Beth 's shoulders . |
| 49 | A few of the clauses in the Declaration appear to have referred to what could only be Whig grievances . |
| 50 | You 'd have mountains on each side of you and there 'd only be one way to go . ’ |
| 51 | But only down to the tiles so mine 'd only be half way . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Anchors for the punt need only be heavy weights . |
| 54 | If forced down to form a layer near the Earth 's surface it would only be five millimetres thick . |
| 55 | and it would only be six months |
| 56 | for site supervision would only be straightforward hours . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Yeah it 's o it would only be short term would n't it ? |
| 59 | She added the planned cross town route would only be single carriageway and would rapidly become overcrowded with vehicles . |
| 60 | She anticipated that fir from being deluged with relatively less serious complaints , it would only be those women ‘ most traumatised by the experience ’ of rape who would report it . |