Example sentences of "[modal v] only [vb infin] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Big , old-established unions may lend up to £5,000 or even more ( the legal maximum is £10,000 ) , but smaller unions may have a limit of a few hundred , and a new member may only get £100 . |
| 2 | It 'll only attract people who 'll do little to help the economic life of the city and just make it horrendous for those who live here . |
| 3 | Keegan described the player he is chasing as being the right age and pedigree and insisted : I 'll only bring people in who are better than what I 've got . ’ |
| 4 | People in my trade are supposed to be able to help , but I 've only been able to come up with the old platitude : ‘ Do n't buy a £500 car from a dealer because you 'll only get £100 worth of vehicle — the rest will be profit . ’ |
| 5 | So do you think , then , that this policy could only cover people with an income . |
| 6 | This time , however , the bank could only afford 55% cover against its loans while the other banks were setting aside 70% or even 80% . |
| 7 | Ceauşescu could not wage war against foreign enemies — his neighbours after all were his fraternal allies — so he could only provide means for his ambitious plans by waging economic war against his own people . |
| 8 | On this occasion he could only get 5in so he told one of the shunters , George Dyson , what had happened and asked him to go back along the fish vans and find out if a bag was off . |
| 9 | Once more the driver tried the vacuum and again could only get 5in . |
| 10 | After beating him , they ransacked the house , but could only find £10 's worth of coins . |
| 11 | It costs £49.95 , but an agent would only pay £30 . |
| 12 | But other customers would only pay £17 for dinner and £8 for breakfast , a total of £25 . |
| 13 | Thus if they sold the same number of beds next year they would only make £3,000 assuming they bought all those beds at the current price . |
| 14 | Housing committee chairman Bill Dixon said Coun Richmond was wide of the mark and each property would only cost £30,000 . |
| 15 | He wrote to me to say that his occupation would become ‘ unreserved ’ on August 1 , 1941 , but that his firm would only release staff to join the armed forces . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The tightest tight shoppers are in Wales , where nine out of 10 women would only spend £5 on a pair , even for a special event such as a wedding . |
| 18 | e.g. if an item valued at $100 was stolen and the total value of the Claimant 's property was $3000 against the sum insured of $1500 , then the Claimant would only receive $50 : — |
| 19 | The sack should be in certain Karrimor agents ' shops by now , priced £350 , but at present it will only fit people of average size or bigger — those who take , say , size 42–47 boots . |
| 20 | The main fault I can find with the vehicle is the cab noise at speeds over 40 mph , ( it will only do 60mph ) I know the Land Rover was never meant for motorways but we plan on taking it on our holiday , is it normal for gearboxes to sound like they are going to fly out of the window or do I have a fault ? |
| 21 | But this does not indicate that the particular swim where you are catching 3lb to 4lb barbel will only produce fish in that size range , for once that shoal moves out it is not unusual for another shoal to move in , be they bigger or smaller . |
| 22 | The minimal information about the candidates that will actually be sent to those nurses on the electoral roll can only enable people to make voting choices on the basis of assumptions or stereotypes . |
| 23 | According to the company , Standard relational databases running under Unix can only process data in one way using Standard Query Language . |
| 24 | This invaluable experience and can only stand people in good stead for when they return to the UK . ’ |
| 25 | You may think that thick and thin Ethernet differ in size , but the main difference between them is the ranges they can cover : a thick Ethernet cable can be 500m long , whereas its skinny relative can only manage 150m . |
| 26 | Medium security levels can enter and delete data and low security levels can only view data . |
| 27 | The longest serving clerical workers , whose responsibilities include juggling patient admissions with spare beds , can only expect £6,235 , that 's even after 25 years ' experience . |
| 28 | And a single parent with a child over 12 can only receive £67.15 before coming into VAT rating . |
| 29 | Over-production led to the infamous butter mountains and ultimately set aside , which means that arable farmers here can only work 85% of their land . |
| 30 | But the Government clause which says Caldaire can only keep 35pc of any purchase price above £1.3m makes a move virtually impossible . |