Example sentences of "only be [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may only be 5 ft 4 ins but he is a giant among small players . ’ |
| 2 | Test kits have a limited shelf life which may only be twelve months in some cases . |
| 3 | There can only be one Creator , one God who made the earth and maintains it under divine control . |
| 4 | In the case of Mendel 's peas size was controlled by two forms of one gene ( each such pair of genes at one locus , is termed an allele , various possible alleles can occur at one locus but there will only be one pair per individual ) . |
| 5 | ‘ There can only be one king of the castle , as far as male Leos are concerned , ’ Julie had continued . |
| 6 | It follows that there will only be one level of national income at which aggregate demand is equal to the total value of production . |
| 7 | You 'd have mountains on each side of you and there 'd only be one way to go . ’ |
| 8 | To Etienne , this could only be one person — the blanc who had threatened to betray him to the President in the conversation which Etienne now interpreted with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 9 | I knew there could only be one person . ’ |
| 10 | In practical terms this is translated into the maxim ‘ get it in the bucket ’ , a rule of particular importance in ‘ one-off ’ rather than continuing pollutions , since there may only be one chance to sample . |
| 11 | The road that ran along the shoreline on the eastern side of the course would be closed to traffic and for security reasons there would only be one pay-gate on that side . |
| 12 | However , an election was fought , and there could only be one winner . |
| 13 | ‘ There could only be one winner , and that would be The Doc , ’ Nichol has said . |
| 14 | Sadly , there can only be one winner … and that is M J Gill of Manchester , who correctly spotted that twinkly-eyed Albums Ed Big Stuarty Bailie is a son of the Emerald Isle . |
| 15 | But providing the rain keeps away there can only be one winner the mighty Zafonic . |
| 16 | But what I 'm saying is that there may only be one proof sense is what we as individuals derive from that proof . |
| 17 | Of course there can only be one chieftain , so defeated rivals must either accept his supremacy or leave the tribe altogether and set up a new one of their own . |
| 18 | Yet it did not require much imagination to see that it could only be one thing : the so-called " rice-water " fluid from a cholera patient , which Dr McNab claimed was so deadly . |
| 19 | It could only be one thing , a Fax machine . |
| 20 | Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration . |
| 21 | There could only be one end to these arguments which were so familiar to him . |
| 22 | NBthere can only be one party on each side of the deal . |
| 23 | There could only be one reason why Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Health , was refusing to accept binding arbitration in the dispute . |
| 24 | If it was true what he said , that she kept him at arm 's length , surely there could only be one reason for that ? |
| 25 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
| 26 | The gap was far too narrow and he was travelling much too fast , and there can only be one reason for him making such a damnfool , cavalier manoeuvre — he was n't concentrating . |
| 27 | In the end there could only be one option for de Gaulle , but the time it took him to make the decision indicated how difficult it was . |
| 28 | Secondly , and most importantly , there can only be one leader in this group , and I 'm it . |
| 29 | But he was expecting a decision now , and with Angel firmly in mind there could only be one answer . |
| 30 | There can only be one answer to this — an independent financial adviser who ( a ) is a specialist in pensions , and ( b ) offers the option of paying by way of a fee as well as by commission . |