Example sentences of "[noun prp] would only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Sir Hector would only say that discussions on the board 's future were continuing . |
| 2 | But John Wainfleet would only confess to taking Sean 's knife and putting it in the pond as a joke . |
| 3 | A team from Northern Ireland would only receive one of these awards . |
| 4 | We support the commitment in that Agreement that ‘ any change in the status of Northern Ireland would only come about with the consent of the majority of the people of Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 5 | We support the commitment in the Anglo-Irish Agreement that ‘ any change in the status of Northern Ireland would only come about with the consent of a majority in Northern Ireland ’ . |
| 6 | The two governments undertook that ‘ … any change in the status of Northern Ireland would only come about with the consent of the majority of the people in Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 7 | But she knew that , if she did n't turn up on the beach , Ross would only come back to fetch her . |
| 8 | Both Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth accept that Mr. Wickham would only have agreed to marry for £10,000 which was seen as a vast amount of money in those days . |
| 9 | " Oh , it was agreed earlier that Mr Gerard would only need one of us to assist after the coffee was served , so I pretended to have a headache . " |
| 10 | But to deny any current involvement with Hugh would only leave her open to other , dangerous questions . |
| 11 | England would only win ‘ if Gooch , on his 39th birthday , can reproduce last year 's masterful , matchwinning century here against West Indies . |
| 12 | Maggie would only keep knives there . |
| 13 | Removal of 2000 m during the Permian would only require a rate of 53 m per million years . |
| 14 | At the time of the Korean War in 1950 he feared a Soviet invasion and he believed that the USSR would only agree to German reunification on its own terms , which could well result in Communist rule . |
| 15 | If , as I 'm inclined to believe , this unwonted willingness to kiss the rod represents one last offer by Pound ( at this time , aged forty-eight ! ) to enrol in Binyon 's seminar if Binyon would only call it into being , Binyon once again knew better than to understand what Pound was driving at . |
| 16 | Hands kept well away from Dronfield , staying at a hotel in Derby , on the grounds that the appearance of an HMI would only implicate the board in Outram 's dismissal . |
| 17 | W&M would only reiterate that its options remained open while Invergordon would only state there had been no talks with W&M regarding the proposed takeover . |
| 18 | FitzAlan would only snap at her anyway , as he had been doing from the minute they had risen in the half-light of a chilly grey dawn . |
| 19 | Paddy would only change hands as part of a specific economic debt contracted outside the field of kinship relations . |
| 20 | Dr Greene would only permit Faye to be at home if she kept to a stricter schedule of bed-rest . |
| 21 | If Amanda would only get it over with , thought Don . |
| 22 | Anyone who did n't know him would turn up their nose , looking down on him , but Clary would only laugh as if he enjoyed it . |
| 23 | He told us that " if only the car industry had achieved the same improvements in price performance since the war as the electronics industry , a 1980 Rolls Royce would only cost 2 pence . " |
| 24 | Modest Derek would only say : ‘ I saw Luke caught up and grabbed him — that 's all . ’ |
| 25 | Narudon Detpradiyut , a senior Thai Supreme Command official , that a transfer of power to civilian rule in Myanma would only take place after a new constitution had been drafted and fresh elections held . |
| 26 | Brian would only need twenty that 's all , apart from what I need |
| 27 | True , she 'd escaped Fincara , but Fincara would only have bewitched her , not killed her . |
| 28 | The US would only aid its Allies , should they be attacked , in accordance with its constitution , which left decisions on war and peace to the Senate . |
| 29 | Amid mounting criticism of the French government 's failure to speak out against the killings , French Foreign Ministry spokesman Daniel Bernard on Jan. 13 condemned the attacks on the opposition and said that France would only continue to support the government of President Idriss Déby if he pressed ahead with democratization . |
| 30 | But in the second set of experiments , a neural event preceding the RP would only serve to make the effect Libet is claiming even more striking and alternative explanations still need to be sought . |