Example sentences of "[modal v] only [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may only be coincidence that the window cleaners were around last weekend when this incident occurred . |
| 2 | These tactics may only be threats , but in the Philippines ’ disappearances ’ are becoming all too common . |
| 3 | The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) . |
| 4 | Electronic records may only be proto-records because they require numerous mechanisms to make them accessible . |
| 5 | If he leaves all to his wife on his death there may only be duty on the £1M non-qualifying assets on his widow 's death . |
| 6 | Proposals to rehabilitate existing broadleaved woods ( which are a source of livestock shelter ) on farms should only be grant aided if the scheme aims to ‘ retain the essential broadleaved character of the woodland with appropriate native tree species ’ . |
| 7 | Me feeling is that there should only be team promotions and that the money should be split . |
| 8 | Like the finches , the Galapagos mocking birds , Darwin concluded , must only be varieties of the species . |
| 9 | Oh I know , it 'll only be fish fingers and chips or fish steaks and chips |
| 10 | ‘ The mothers 'll only be skivvies anywhere they get billeted , so I might as well choose my own place . |
| 11 | These attacks might only be cattle raids — that 's bad enough-but sometimes they might be more hostile . |
| 12 | It might only be hours before the police start questioning you ! ’ |
| 13 | It might only be pebbles against Patriots , and the Inspirals might be as interested in the ephemera of psychedelic pop and training shoes as they are in delivering any deeper message , but to their new American fans the Inspirals represent a special hope , an idea that something more sensitive than Guns N' Roses and Madonna might thrive . |
| 14 | So faint , it might only be moonlight through the clouds — then she saw long pale hair streaming . |
| 15 | It might only be breast tissue , I do n't know that . |
| 16 | It could only be Mischa . |
| 17 | The latter was to have as his successor his son , who now could only be Louis-Napoleon . |
| 18 | Of course we were n't about to ask , what on earth has happened to you , since we knew it could only be O who had done this to him . |
| 19 | It could only be Kirov . |
| 20 | It could only be Maria Luisa asking when Steve would be leaving . |
| 21 | I do n't believe that any of the three could exist , or would want to exist independently , for the synthesis is absolutely perfect , the balance so delicate , that the next step up could only be Rapture and Heaven . |
| 22 | While some cooperation and coordination in a specific sector might be possible , as long as the hope was to embrace the whole of Western Europe in its ambit , any scheme could only be minimalist . |
| 23 | Ace drew her Browning and fired at Mait , but he had ducked behind the wall of the sedan chair and the bullets ricocheted off what could only be metal . |
| 24 | Mr Urbanec , who is to hold further talks with Mr Havel today — this time in front of television cameras — conceded that the party realised it was held in deep mistrust by the public , and accepted that henceforth it could only be part of the political spectrum . |
| 25 | I was on my way towards the main door of the clubhouse when I saw a cluster of men who could only be journalists . |
| 26 | Against this view of love as contract , Cave , in The Birthday Party , was almost alone in reinvoking love as malady , monologue , abject dependence , whose ultimate expression could only be violence : the recurrent theme of girl-murder , or at the opposite pole the paroxysm of desire in ‘ Zoo Music Girl ’ , ‘ Oh ! |
| 27 | A look that could only be jealousy , she registered , made his coal-black eyes glint with a hint of danger . |
| 28 | Every one of her senses sharpened to its utmost Gina entered a world as unreal and beautiful as Tivoli itself , mindlessly letting conscious thought give way to pure sensation , as his voice caressed her ears with words which could only be endearments , husky and broken . |
| 29 | The reaction to this could only be ridicule . |
| 30 | The criteria for assessment of a return i.e. the balance sheet , could only be results . |