Example sentences of "[modal v] be only [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 . |