Example sentences of "may only be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you buy a ‘ Rolex ’ watch for £50 , you know it 's unlikely to be genuine , but what you would n't know is that it may only be worth £5 . |
| 2 | This lack of interest may only be on the part of one partner . |
| 3 | Otherwise , rejection may only be on the ground of infringement of ‘ sovereignty or security ’ ; neither a claim to exclusive jurisdiction by the state of destination over the subject-matter with which the document deals , nor the fact that no cause of action would exist under the law of that state is a proper ground for rejection . |
| 4 | Some visits may only be for convenience shopping and some for comparison . |
| 5 | If the paintings do have a value , it may only be for what they have to teach criminal psychologists . |
| 6 | If the Strauss/Liszt/Mendelssohn disc preserves some kind of logic in its programming , another release featuring miscellaneous items ( ) unfortunately has the appearance of being cobbled together , and as such may only be of real interest to the avid Klemperer fan . |
| 7 | Thus it is argued that the gain in profits of changing prices may only be of second order , whereas the welfare losses from the resulting rigidities may be of first order . |
| 8 | If you prefer that the algorithm should not invent new weights , but only select existing weights from the parent strings , then the crossover points marked ’ x ’ may only be at the ends of 8-bit sequences . |
| 9 | They last between half and two seconds and while their amplitude may only be in the region of 50 microvolts , they may be as large as 250 microvolts from peak to trough ( see Fig. 2.6 ) . |