Example sentences of "[modal v] be only [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It may also be challenged on the ground that £6,000 per annum was excessive and the rent should be only £4,000 .
2 He also quoted Mallarmé " I think … that there should be only allusion
3 Large bulbs should be only half-buried ; with smaller ones , the tips should be just below the compost surface .
4 Or perhaps they do , for the beast does swerve aside , though this could be only chance .
5 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat said today that his mainstream Fatah faction approved a self-rule deal with Israel and mutual recognition could be only days away .
6 That cheery , indefatigable demeanour may be only skin deep , but a firm grasp of reality bodes well for his capacity to withstand the slings and arrows .
7 This points up the possibility that the organizational differences built into the preliminary study may be only surface ones , masking ‘ deeper ’ structures of thinking about the nature of social work .
8 For it follows from this distinction that we see only the appearances of things , images of them in our minds , not the things themselves , ‘ so that , for aught we know , all we see , hear , and feel , may be only phantom and vain chimera , and not at all agree with the real things ’ .
9 But Mr Marshall says that while there may have been a 15% reduction in area , overall output may be only 10% lower .
10 Thus the processes that affect ordinary people may be only microprocesses of everyday life .
11 The differences in procedure between expert determination and arbitration may be only potential in some cases .
12 It may be only outsider skepticism that leads me to see a subtle , probably subconscious new emphasis on the word ‘ choice ’ .
13 They need be only manilla , since they will rarely be taken out of your room .
14 The pilot warned there would be only room for one moose on the small plane .
15 Now they would be only threads in a tapestry of regrets .
16 By the time they woke up to the fact that many people would be only 2p a week better off , Smith had gained the headlines with the claim that eight out of 10 families gained .
17 Thus the real cost of £1,000 worth of BES shares to anybody earning more than that during the fiscal year , which starts on Monday , would be only £500 .
18 It would be only justice given their current jittery form .
19 And ordinary soldiers , writing to relatives from the Front in April 1940 , spoke naïvely of their belief that ‘ as long as we have the front soldier Adolf Hitler , there will be only loyalty , bravery , and justice for his people ’ , and that ‘ the most beautiful day in the life of our Führer has still to come ’ , the day on which ‘ all peoples have recovered their freedom , peace , and equality ’ .
20 This time it will be only pride to play for .
21 In my heaven , there will be only five-year-old eyes , for
22 Andrea Vecchiotti , the managing director of Otis , a maker of lifts and escalators , which is building a $10m plant in Penang , says that direct labour costs will be only 2% of the cost of producing a lift on the island .
23 Although there are centres of excellence to be found , their contribution to reducing endemic levels of sexually transmitted diseases can be only minute when compared with the extent of the problem .
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