Example sentences of "only have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As will be seen in Chapter 7 , this itself could only have been due to current Roman catholic social teaching on mixed marriage . |
| 2 | I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers ' lathes being used for woodturners , but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe — if at all . |
| 3 | Having observed Thatcher 's boorish behaviour , Abse comments : ‘ Such a jealous and ruthless super-ego can only have been formed by a prohibiting mother who is brusque and prematurely insists upon early toilet training . ’ |
| 4 | In the past this plant would only have been found on the better drained slopes leading to our moorland plateaux , but because of man 's interference in this environment , by digging drainage ditches and lowering the water table , the plant has been able to spread onto the plateaux themselves . |
| 5 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |
| 6 | Then , in that second of hushed silence before the screen and fanfare blaze out , there came from the middle of the auditorium a huge and shocked voice ‘ What the fookin''ell are yo ’ doin' ? ' , followed almost at once by two mighty smacks that could only have been someone being hit . |
| 7 | Such a far reaching change could ultimately only have been achieved with general Kikuyu support . |
| 8 | That would only have been necessary had the troops been requisitioning other people 's equipment , rather than turning out with their own ambulances . |
| 9 | The baby was only a sign and could only have been understood later in the light of the life of the person who was to be the Saviour of the world . |
| 10 | A burst of fire in the street outside , uncomfortably close , could only have been discharged from very near their original position in the gutter . |
| 11 | One is that no actual endangerment is required : the explosion need only have been inherently likely to endanger life , and the offence is committed whether or not anyone 's life was put in danger . |
| 12 | Zen 's barking background could only have been a big plus the day he found a newborn baby whose entire experience of life was going to be lying abandoned for a few hours by a creek near Plymouth . |
| 13 | He points to a single red blossom that quivers on a nearly invisible thread attached to a garland of synthetic butterflies and rhinestone-dotted flowers — a bizarre piece of headgear so tacky it could only have been custom-made . |
| 14 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 15 | But even at this date the alteration in emphasis can only have been a conscious attempt to attune to the wider audience , if still at that time mainly within Bavaria , which was beginning to show interest in Hitler in 1923 , and an awareness that anti-Marxism had a wider potential appeal than the mere repetition of anti-Jewish paroxysms of hate . |
| 16 | For these , it seems obvious , Hitler 's public association with the radical ‘ solution of the Jewish Question ’ and the linking of the Führer to the widespread knowledge and rumours of the extermination of the Jews in the east , can only have been a further negative feature of his image . |
| 17 | And his young wife accompanied him with a sensitive mastery that could only have been born of love . |
| 18 | The figures are wildly optimistic , and could only have been extrapolated from a short trial of about 10 operations . |
| 19 | The poems which impressed the gentleman could only have been produced by a poet with rings around her eyes . |
| 20 | The women complained that the officer could only have been on the housing list for a few weeks , while they had waited for periods of between eighteen months and four years . |
| 21 | The concept of these ‘ continental ’ Wendy Houses with little canvas porches , plastic see-through windows and PVC-checked curtains could only have been dreamed up by someone who has never been two degrees north of the equator . |
| 22 | He ca n't only have been Donald the Great Doctor . |
| 23 | Such certification could only have been dreamed up as window dressing to exonerate the Agriculture Departments in circumstances where damage could have occurred . |
| 24 | John Poole was a man of high Tory opinions , and the motive for introducing him to Coleridge and Southey can only have been mischievous . |
| 25 | Our respective manners proved so widely different , that it would have been quite presumptuous in me to do anything but separate from an undertaking upon which I could only have been a clog . ’ |
| 26 | The intact pellets collected from varying distances from the nest , however , could only have been left by the adults . |
| 27 | Bronze moulds for elaborate axes of the late Bronze Age in Britain could only have been used in the lost-wax process . |
| 28 | Such an equilibrium could only have been a temporary one , being based upon the fear of a common enemy , rather than on a positive material joint interest . |
| 29 | The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times . |
| 30 | ‘ It could only have been one , ’ said the Leader decisively , ‘ probably Hugh is right , it was the boy . ’ |