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

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1 They may be parents or they may only have letters after their name , but what they have in common is this : they know that intellectual perfection and the criteria for measuring it are chimeras .
2 So individuals may only have rights against their government in the strong sense of being immune to the countervailing claims of general utility if those rights may be derived from that overriding principle of equal concern and respect .
3 In some bedrooms , there may be enough space to fit a shower cubicle , but others may only have space for a bedroom basin .
4 For many situations which you will face as a manager it is safe to assume that your audience may only have time to grasp perhaps just three ideas .
5 And the World Health Organisation suggests that all children should not use fluoride mouth rinses and should only have toothpaste portions the size of a small pea .
6 This came under heavy fire for implying that small firms set up without planning permission should only have enforcement orders issued against them if alternative premises were available .
7 they 'll only have trainers if they 're this make and
8 and so I could only have marmite or fruit to eat and
9 You would have put £10,000 towards a good cause — but it would only have cost you £6,000 , because you would have saved the rest in tax .
10 One MEP has calculated that if you start with £100 in Britain and change this sum successively into each of the Community s eleven currencies , you would only have £50 by the final transaction .
11 And two thirds said they would only have sex in a long-term relationship .
12 ‘ I will only have eyes for you . ’
13 Experience of itself has no significance but can only have significance attributed to it .
14 I I said well I suppose it 's I do and he said but you work hard June , I said I know but I said kno I said what I do , I can only have hour out there and an hour inside .
15 We can only have strategies for promoting or fostering teacher development .
16 When everyone is being encouraged to have their say and chipping in , you can only have decision-making by consensus and that takes a lot of time .
17 a blockage yeah it goes right across you , you 've got you 've got catarrh and I 'm thinking you can only have catarrh if you 've got a , you know if you had a real bad cold and or the flu or something but she said it 's all in there .
18 Ms Botwin has found that a good clue to spotting a fear of intimacy is when someone can only have sex with people they do n't care about , but can confide and be intimate with people of the opposite sex who are seen as just good friends .
19 Implicit in the name is the ridiculous idea that you can only have fun on a funboard .
20 you can only have hayfever in the summer ca n't
21 He told him committee last week that staff at Coed Glas were in a difficult situation and ‘ one can only have sympathy with them ’ .
22 However , at the beginning of the year we can not know for certain what the inflation rates will be ; we can only have expectations about what they will be .
23 This Condition can only have effect if it is called into operation by the party wishing to rely on it giving written notice to the other to that effect .
24 You can only have weeks one two and three .
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