Example sentences of "could only be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker . |
| 2 | Oreste had been spared and it could only be for a purpose . |
| 3 | If the Ketterings had wanted another family to stand in for them , it could only be for recognition by someone they wished to avoid or who might be a danger to them . |
| 4 | I could only be of help . ’ |
| 5 | I consider that it could only be of assistance to them if they had that foundation with which to commence their overview of the requirements of the case and the discharge of their statutory duty under the Children Act 1989 . |
| 6 | His confidence that God 's existence could be demonstrated from the natural world made him a favourite target for those who felt it could only be on the basis of God 's special revelation of Himself that faith could be justified . |
| 7 | While his parents could only be with him during the occasional break in a hectic schedule , at least Diana knew that he was under the same skies . |
| 8 | If you were to stay with me , it could only be with your parents ’ permission . |
| 9 | And he still filled it , but now it could only be with regret for the enormity of her mistakes . |
| 10 | The way forward could only be through a measure of government intervention and inevitably it provoked at the time and in its later consequences , or lack of them , sharp controversy which did much to form the particular arguments reformers used to articulate their basic ideological assumptions . |
| 11 | As I investigated further , it seemed to become clear that if this question could be answered it could only be in a complex way . |
| 12 | Such an ascription of effect to cause could only be in the form of hypotheses , of varying degrees of face plausibility . |
| 13 | ‘ There are only two places you can cross from coast-to-coast and one route takes 14 days , so Fusil 's route could only be in one place . ’ |
| 14 | If the Ruritanian tributary was to flow into the country of junior fiction , it could only be in a narrower channel . |
| 15 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 16 | If it were to be stopped at all , then it could only be by means that fell entirely outside the constitution . |
| 17 | This tall and handsome man , not so many years older than himself — he must have been a mere boy when McAllister was conceived — could only be by his manner , and his resemblance to her , McAllister 's formidable father , so often referred to . |
| 18 | It could only be from Mrs Browning . |
| 19 | The light could only be from a torch — obviously — but there was something oddly fragmented about it . |
| 20 | The eventual landfall of the aircraft could only be within that limited area . |