Example sentences of "would only [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The control theory would only eliminate alcohol abuse if consumption were reduced to zero — an unrealistic proposition , as the prohibitionists in the United States found out earlier this century . |
| 2 | It costs £49.95 , but an agent would only pay £30 . |
| 3 | But other customers would only pay £17 for dinner and £8 for breakfast , a total of £25 . |
| 4 | Yet the value of such a ‘ special circumstances ’ doctrine is limited , since it would only cover insider dealing in face-to-face transactions and so provide no remedies to those dealing though impersonal stock exchange markets . |
| 5 | The difficulty from the outset was that the Treasury would only give approval for mandatory awards for DipHE students if it had a two ‘ A ’ level entry . |
| 6 | This fund would only benefit member countries with a per capita income of less than 90 per cent of the EC average ( i.e. Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain ) . |
| 7 | Okay , A gives up two units of reproductive success , a food item to B. This benefits B by three units of reproductive success , whereas it would only benefit A by only two units of reproductive success . |
| 8 | Adoption of EC Commission proposals would only grant copyright protection to those databases which involved intellectual and creative effort in their compilation . |
| 9 | Arriving at the School with Jasper and Bienvida in a borrowed beat-up Ford van , its roofrack loaded with launderette bags of clothes and its inside with her sticks of furniture ( sticks was the word ) , she told him the advertisement would only attract riff-raff . |
| 10 | The sums involved made it difficult to prevent the inflows from boosting the money supply by selling bonds , and in any case , if this were attempted it would only prevent interest rates from falling and keep the currency attractive to those anxious to get out of dollars . |
| 11 | Most people would only eat bran with breakfast cereal . |
| 12 | Thus if they sold the same number of beds next year they would only make £3,000 assuming they bought all those beds at the current price . |
| 13 | It was clear that she was n't wanted by Charlotte , and if Ernest did want her with them , then that would only make matters worse . |
| 14 | It would only make matters worse , she said . |
| 15 | Explanations would only make matters ten times worse . |
| 16 | Such a step , he said , would only make matters worse . |
| 17 | While the Treasury was warning of a " continuing mountain of difficulties " for some years to come , the Foreign Office argued that to reduce overseas commitments would only make matters worse . |
| 18 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 19 | It would only make Luke think that she was distrusting him again . |
| 20 | She knew that it was no use offering to make it : it would only make Bella angry . |
| 21 | But a Royal Bank spokesman said : ‘ We would only expect tenders to be based on the cost per hour , not the total cost . |
| 22 | Another speaker said that our presence would only draw attention and suspicion to their villages . |
| 23 | Here purists were deliberately challenging official arguments which opposed fresh legislation or greater public discussion on the grounds that this would only draw attention to sex and incite immorality . |
| 24 | To continue would only mean chaos at the Cabinet meeting itself . |
| 25 | I thought she 'd be shocked but she was n't , although she said she thought I should try to forget him because it would only mean unhappiness for me . ’ |
| 26 | This is close to instrumental accounts of the role of the state , but Habermas argued that these economic crises would only threaten capitalism if they were unresolved . |
| 27 | Once the Government had approved the NVQ it would only offer NVQ training assistance . |
| 28 | The sessions largely consisted of assurances from DEC of its continued commitment to the OSF/1 operating system on the MIPS line , in the face of surprisingly strong customer reaction to the news of DEC 's recent pronouncements that it would only offer OSF/1 for Alpha ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 29 | Police sources said the shooting had the hallmarks of a ‘ professional execution ’ : a light handgun was used that would only ensure death if used at point-blank range . |
| 30 | ‘ We did n't think , for instance , it should be necessary for umpires to inspect the ball every over in all levels of cricket — that would only waste time . |