Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [modal v] only [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , the choice theory advocates the distributive consequences of a free market under which obligations can only be incurred through exchange relations between independent traders . |
| 2 | I suppose there 's a sense in which poetry can only be shared with other people if there is some common experience , maybe at a deeper level some collective unconscious , otherwise I would n't be able to respond to your poetry ? |
| 3 | The same overproduction ethos , that of turning out in principle reproducible cultural goods based on unskilled labour , and to which meaning can only be implausibly attached , underscores his 1978 ‘ Oxidation ’ series , in which aleatory colour schemes are created through Warhol urinating on bronze- or copper-covered canvases . |
| 4 | After making findings of fact which are broadly summarised in the second paragraph of this judgment the board determined , inter alia : ( 1 ) that the fees derived from the sub-licencing were sourced in the countries in which the sub-licensees were by their contracts entitled to exercise the particular rights and ( 2 ) that the 1981 agreement vested in the taxpayer rights over intangible property , which rights could only be exercised outside Hong Kong . |
| 5 | Hudson and Denner present only a successful and respected gentleman whose accomplishments might only be guessed at . |
| 6 | She would treat him as a delinquent , a time-waster , a bad child , whose offences could only be petty . |
| 7 | My problem is that we wish to give a small donation to Bruce for the street children , but our charitable giving is channelled through Charity Giving Scotland , whose vouchers can only be used by a charity registered as such in Britain . |
| 8 | It is usual to illustrate the grammatical function by inventing sentences which when written are ambiguous , and whose ambiguity can only be removed by using differences of intonation . |
| 9 | These are words whose meaning can only be discovered by referring to other words or to elements of the context which are clear to both sender and receiver . |
| 10 | But suppose now we require that adequate grammatical descriptions include specifications of the meaning of every word in a language , and such a requirement has normally been assumed , then we find words whose meaning-specifications can only be given by reference to contexts of usage . |
| 11 | WHEN President Ceausescu of Romania ordains his forces to shoot on his own people after they call for democracy and bread , and causes mass deaths whose numbers can only be guessed , Nato and Warsaw Pact countries cry shame and horror . |
| 12 | To get some ideas of the difficulties involved in studying the body clock — a structure hidden inside the brain whose activity can only be inferred indirectly by measuring the rhythms it is believed to produce — consider the following analogy . |
| 13 | Local tradespeople obviously benefited , but to what extent can only be guessed at . |