Example sentences of "[modal v] only be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Test kits have a limited shelf life which may only be twelve months in some cases . |
| 2 | They may only be alien ticks , but their shells are so hard they are almost indestructible , and they can survive for years without 8 meal of any sort … |
| 3 | The BBC said there should only be five firefighters in the film and they were . |
| 4 | ( A screw told me that a prison regulation stated that there should only be two chairs for every three women . ) |
| 5 | I 'll only be five minutes . |
| 6 | Come on it 'll only take us , we 'll only be five minutes . |
| 7 | Oh good lord yes , she 's doing well , in fact eh , some time in November this year she 'll only be two years younger than me . |
| 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 | I 'll only be ten minutes . |
| 10 | He 'll only be ten minutes . ’ |
| 11 | Standard hierarchical models , however , allow too little interaction between the knowledge sources : within a strictly hierarchical system , one can not interleave the processes associated with each different level of knowledge , and hence one can not allow the very early filtering out by higher-level components of what might only be partial analyses at lower levels . |
| 12 | A few of the clauses in the Declaration appear to have referred to what could only be Whig grievances . |
| 13 | Anchors for the punt need only be heavy weights . |
| 14 | If forced down to form a layer near the Earth 's surface it would only be five millimetres thick . |
| 15 | and it would only be six months |
| 16 | for site supervision would only be straightforward hours . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then the stance would only be ten feet away and perhaps there would be a hook placement ? |
| 19 | It would only be ten names maybe . |
| 20 | King Farouk of Egypt , deposed in 1952 , said a year later , ‘ One day there will only be five kings left , Hearts , Spades , Diamonds , Clubs and England . ’ |
| 21 | And it will only be forty-eight hours before relief arrives . ’ |
| 22 | If we go to consider the folk as being on the ‘ inside ’ we then assume that what is on the ‘ outside ’ can only be impersonal processes that just have effects upon people . |
| 23 | However , this is a highly subjective area in which the rules themselves can only be guiding principles . |