Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the hard part of Operation Restore Hope may have only just begun . |
| 2 | As an alternative to restrictive covenants ( eg the buyer may build only one single-storey dwelling on the land hereby agreed to be sold ) , there may be positive covenants that the buyer is to be required to observe ( eg the buyer must erect a larchlap fence on the length of the left-hand boundary of the property ) . |
| 3 | The fact that in these experiments there is no evidence for differentiation may mean only that differentiation produces less powerful effects than does mediation . |
| 4 | A chital hind may last only a day but a chital stag weighing up to 200 lb ( 90 kg ) will feed a tiger for two or three days . |
| 5 | In practical terms , a checklist may take only a very short time to complete , providing that the teacher or therapist is familiar with the child being assessed . |
| 6 | The expenditure base defined above includes wealth transferred , but it has sometimes been argued that the base should include only consumption , which would be equivalent to entering only receipts net of transfers on the left-hand side of ( 9–2 ) , as one would if one treated the dynasty as an integrated unit . |
| 7 | Action at the Community level should happen only when proper and necessary . |
| 8 | The kit for doing the job comes with the necessary fittings so that the job of ‘ winding ’ the coil into one hole and out of the other after removing the pipes from the boiler should take only 15 minutes . |
| 9 | The attempt to hold it together at gunpoint may succeed only in blowing the Soviet Union apart more violently . |
| 10 | That from the Reiss and Wagner study may imply only that , in their procedure , generalization decrement completely masks inhibitory effects ; the result does not require us to deny the existence of the latter . |
| 11 | At one extreme , an encoder may provide only a bibliographic identification of the text . |
| 12 | They are class-blind , in that the programme may reach only a minority , and separates this elite from the bulk of girls who are defined as failures and frequently pushed into opposition to the school 's programme . |
| 13 | It has also been suggested that the mayor should attend only three events a week . |
| 14 | This figure must apply only to England and Wales , since the PM(79)3 and EL(91)5 schemes do not yet exist in Scotland . |
| 15 | The Boat Club must know only lunatics 'd risk it . |
| 16 | Exceptions to this rule should apply only to a limited number of sectors enumerated in the Treaty . ’ |
| 17 | Eliot , who was interested in mana and orenda , worried that Durkheim 's theory of totemism in terms of religious force might prove only ‘ an admission of the inexplicable ’ . |
| 18 | The patient 's condition might change only slowly , as he can go on recovering over several years . |
| 19 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |
| 20 | ARAZI 'S reputation nose-dived again yesterday when the one-time wonder horse could finish only third at Longchamp . |
| 21 | The lesser charge of hijacking vehicles to form roadblocks during the general strike collapsed when the soldier called as a witness could give only vague and imprecise descriptions . |
| 22 | If , on the other hand , I approached this child — ( he smiles at Geraldine [ disguised as a boy ] ) — my action could result only in a gross violation of the order of things . |
| 23 | For Lord Waddington , kicked upstairs to the Lords in 1991 , a conversation with the PM could mean only one thing — another gentle shove away from the centre of power . |
| 24 | The real merit in this suggestion is that it is based upon ( in principle ) easily observed magnitudes those calculating the bonus need know only about price , output and cost levels in each period ; they do not need to estimate either demand or cost functions . |
| 25 | ‘ The firm name used by a multi-national partnership shall consist only of the name or names of one or more lawyers , being present or former principals of either the multi-national partnership or a predecessor legal practice , together with , if desired , other conventional references to the firm and to such persons ; or a name approved in writing by the Council as the name of the multi-national partnership or of a predecessor legal practice . ’ |
| 26 | Bush dismissed the move as an attempt by the Iraqi leader to regroup his overwhelmed forces , and stated that the allies would continue to press the ground war " with undiminished intensity " , emphasising that the fighting would stop only if Iraqi forces " lay down their arms " . |
| 27 | Under the kitchen floor they built a brick-lined store , so cleverly concealed that anyone lifting the floorboards in a random search would see only the earth beneath . |
| 28 | Ford defended his action , pointing out that a protracted trial of the former President would serve only to continue the long agony of Watergate , and distract the United States and its people from more urgent matters . |
| 29 | Tony Ruffell , chief executive of Nottinghamshire FHSA , told me that preliminary research in the county suggested that each general practitioner would encounter only a few such difficult decisions a year — perhaps five or six . |
| 30 | If this were not so , contextual facilitation of auditory word recognition would occur only for words at the end of clauses . |