Example sentences of "may [verb] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either may arise only after the performance or occurrence of some particular acts . |
| 2 | He may prefer only to claim that they apply once ethical language and judgement are understood in the way he recommends . |
| 3 | This implies that a trade-off between unemployment and inflation may exist only in the very short term . |
| 4 | These elements ( the equivalent of nerve cells ) may be tangible silicon chips or they may exist only in the cyberspace of a working computer program . |
| 5 | In the spaciousness of a large chamber they may make only four or five a second , but as they approach the rock walls and need to know exactly where they are in order not to crash into them , they increase the speed of the clicks until they are emitting as many as twenty a second and the sound becomes , to our ears , an almost continuous rattle . |
| 6 | As an alternative to restrictive covenants ( eg the buyer may build only one single-storey dwelling on the land hereby agreed to be sold ) , there may be positive covenants that the buyer is to be required to observe ( eg the buyer must erect a larchlap fence on the length of the left-hand boundary of the property ) . |
| 7 | The chariot itself may attack only as it charges causing D6 hits plus +1 per scythe if scythes are fitted on the model . |
| 8 | The Renton Committee noted that definitions may take various forms : they may be exhaustive ; they may be merely inclusionary ; they may concentrate only the boundaries of the concept ; they may seek to exclude descriptive material and concentrate upon conceptual analysis ; they may rely upon general principles . |
| 9 | There are 15 items up for sale , but you may buy only two of them . |
| 10 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 11 | The mystified motorist whose car has gone wrong may know only that it needs repair and that he should take it to a mechanic : his competence to deal with the matter may go no further . |
| 12 | ‘ But Harry may know only too well that through him the secret of this grave 's no secret . |
| 13 | Put another way , spillovers may benefit only those firms who already invest heavily in R&D and are , therefore , capable of exploiting them . |
| 14 | This may not necessarily be large-scale dissolution ( e.g. Fig. 5.16d ) , but may result only in slight corrosion of the detrital grains or pre-existing cements in the sediment . |
| 15 | AT&T and the Babies do not compete on the provision of basic telephone services , since under the terms of the break-up AT&T may carry only long-distance calls , the Baby Bells only local ones . |
| 16 | Each class is given a credit rating ( normally one credit per class , but some half-classes like Quantitative Methods or Computing , which are obligatory in the Business School , may carry only a half credit ) . |
| 17 | Records relate to coasting movements , which are difficult to evaluate and some of which may refer only to local movements , and both immigration and emigration in in spring and autumn . |
| 18 | The attempt to hold it together at gunpoint may succeed only in blowing the Soviet Union apart more violently . |
| 19 | Sometimes the mirroring may comprise only the note-order , or ( conversely ) the rhythmic structure set to different notes , so that it is not strictly speaking a palindrome . |
| 20 | He may transfer only that part of the allowance which is unused by his own income . |
| 21 | The effect of section 9 is that the Crown can not rely directly on wire-tapping evidence in legal proceedings , but may use only the fruits of the interception . |
| 22 | Those who play aleatory music ( where the composer may use only graphic signs , or may suggest certain note-groups , to be played in a certain way , or even perhaps as the player wishes ) may also have a stock-in-trade of musical gestures which will help them produce a convincing result in any situation . |
| 23 | In the complex interactions between myself and the countless others with whom I am remotely or directly engaged , my self-awareness and the self-regarding inclinations which it generates may occupy only a small part of my field of awareness , and not for any moral reason ; I feel myself spontaneously pulled towards admiration as well as pride , submission as well as power , masochism as well as sadism , judging myself from other viewpoints as well is judging others from mine . |
| 24 | Indeed , with a very small agency , you may see only one person — who may be both account executive and copywriter , and obtain most other necessary services from outside organizations . |
| 25 | A light prism gives a practical example of how the same object viewed from different standpoints gives different images : one person may see only white light while others see all the colours of the rainbow , yet both perceptions are true to reality and not figments of distorted imagination . |
| 26 | In the wild , the specialist predators may spend only a very small percentage of their time in the pursuit of food . |
| 27 | The black grapes of Chouilly and the white grapes of Tours-sur-Marne have an échelle of 95% and 90% respectively , and as such may claim only premier cru status . |
| 28 | The effect of this regrettable and wholly arbitrary restriction is that , for a senior executive , an unfair dismissal claim may provide only a very limited redress for the losses resulting from the unjust ending of employment . |
| 29 | At one extreme , an encoder may provide only a bibliographic identification of the text . |
| 30 | The student may nurse only patients with ingrowing toe nails or hallux valgus . |