Example sentences of "[noun sg] only be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bucharest as in Pyongyang , it may well be that severe repression can in the first instance only be challenged by a well-aimed bullet . |
| 2 | In Bucharest as in Pyongyang , it may well be that severe repression can in the first instance only be challenged by a well-aimed bullet . |
| 3 | The 1s level binding energies of elements increase roughly as Z , the nuclear charge , and can of course only be used for elements lighter than that used in the X-ray source . |
| 4 | When fly and lure fishing only are allowed on a water there is no other way that fish can be caught . |
| 5 | On the table was part of an extensive collection of mammalia and birds , brought over by Mr Darwin , who accompanied the Beagle in its late surveying expedition in the capacity of Naturalist , and at his own expense , a free passage only being allowed by the Government . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most difficult matter will be to resolve differences between the professional regulations of bodies whose members may wish or be permitted to form MDPs or , in the absence of complete harmonisation , to prescribe effective means for dissolution of an MDP where the standards required by one body only are put in jeopardy . |
| 7 | Spring water only is used for drinking and cooking food . |
| 8 | ‘ In no case where we interviewed had the woman only been raped by one man . |
| 9 | The first is where the whole of the programme is provided by and taught at a major centre , as in the case of Bristol Polytechnic ; the second is where the first year is provided extra-murally at a number of associated centres , while the second year only is provided at the main centre , as the case of Portsmouth Polytechnic ; and the third is where both the first and second years are provided at the main and associate centres as at Plymouth Polytechnic and Cornwall Technical College , Camborne . |
| 10 | They had not yet given their opinion to the present proposal — given outline permission by East Hampshire District council 's northern area planning sub-committee on March 24th — because the plans had at that stage only been submitted in outline . |