Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] only [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 2 | In daylight they are only to be seen from ships at sea , when the two smaller petrels appear all dark birds with white rumps as they flutter and dance across the waves . |
| 3 | What , you mean they 're only to be young leaders there . |
| 4 | But they were only to be offered upon condition that this created no precedent . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course you 'll have to , ’ Father Devlin boomed cheerfully , ‘ it 's only to be expected . ’ |
| 6 | " And Martha 's the same , it 's only to be expected at her age . " |
| 7 | it 's completely anonymous number you know it 's only to be on that , said I 'll wipe it off then , you bloody well wo n't , I think he wants to tell people before he can say very wrong , could say something personal , if it was personal , no longer it , no you were n't personal to you , but I 'm quite happy to arrange it if you wish , no , no , no , no , no , , I should n't have to tell you not to take my points in full , there we go it 's driving me doing that in the factory having without people 's permission , I want to know , I ask permission if I 'd er wanted to as a without being asked to do it , I would of gone and seen personnel and asked , I would not of dreamed of doing it in a work 's situation unless I was asked , say anything personal I 'd turned it off not that it , apart from me and Stuart |
| 8 | It is only to be hoped that dispersals of any kind are restricted on the most severe criteria , and that money for acquisitions , storage and , perhaps most important , staff for cataloguing is not stinted . |
| 9 | It is only to be regretted that the Committee has not pursued this policy with sufficient boldness and consistency . |
| 10 | But speculative source-study can reveal more about the reading of the scholar than about the actual text whose possible sources are the object of the exercise and , after all , it is only to be expected that those who share a faith will also share a way of expressing it . |
| 11 | It is only to be expected that these two rather different techniques , the Doppler shift technique and the " chirp radar " technique , would be useful for different special purposes . |
| 12 | Since each is a little different from its parent , it is only to be expected that each will be slightly more different from its grandparents ( and its grandchildren ) , and even more different still from its great grandparents ( and great grandchildren ) . |
| 13 | It is only to be expected that there are not too many IT experts around who could effectively advise policy makers and managers , and design IT systems . |
| 14 | It was only to be expected that a man who has written with such insight and style about Calcutta and New York , cricket and the crossing of deserts would do justice to a life-long passion . |
| 15 | When he rang Eleanor he would explain that it was only to be a simple snack . |
| 16 | Maybe it was only to be expected , a sudden change that tilted your world sideways , slipped the ground from under you a shade . |
| 17 | Surely Richmond is Beulah , I said to the Princess , who said it was only to be hoped no wicked Fairy envied us our pleasant lot . |
| 18 | It was only to be expected that the contestants would take note of this background information , in one way or another . |
| 19 | After an eight hour [ night ] patrol , it was only to be expected that the policeman would prefer resting to hanging around the courts waiting to bring petty offenders to book . |
| 20 | Through the 1920s , a clear gap opened up between Barth and Brunner on the one hand , and Bultmann and Gogarten on the other , though it was only to be later that the full significance of the divergence between them became apparent . |
| 21 | Given the size of the motion-picture audience it was inevitable that political authorities would become involved in some regulation of the industry even if it was only to be a question of safety and fire regulations , but what made the movies even more into a public issue was that they became a mass activity precisely at the moment when political parties and social agencies were more concerned than ever before with how the masses could be accommodated within cities . |
| 22 | The court allowed a deposition to be taken in New Zealand , which might convince the other parties of the genuineness of the claim , but it was only to be admitted in evidence with their consent . |
| 23 | It was only to be expected that sooner or later the Collector 's sense of duty would reassert itself . |
| 24 | As some staff had been in the Dean Centre for much of their working lives , it was only to be expected that they would leave Belford Road behind with some regret . |
| 25 | The stromatoporoids , for example , had largely gone and the new corals had not yet learned to build reefs ( in fact the Rugosa were never to remember the habit and it was only to be relearned by the Scleractinia of the Mesozoic ) . |
| 26 | He supposed it was only to be expected . |
| 27 | It was only to be for a matter of months . |