Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] only [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These tactics may only be threats , but in the Philippines ’ disappearances ’ are becoming all too common . |
| 2 | ‘ The result can only be health care services which have virtually no real accountability or contact with the local community , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Limitations of this system at present are that subjects can only be studies in the supine position within the magnet , thus imposing constraints on both posture and movement . |
| 4 | You should be well aware that evolution can only be viewed with hindsight , and whether our species ' rapacious predatory record will prove successful in the long term can only be speculation . |
| 5 | The modern or contemporary quarter of Intolerance would make an excellent film in its own right but even then the industrial scene would only be part of the scene setting and would fade in the memory as the hero passes from scene to scene in the ‘ picaresque ’ fashion of so many movies . |
| 6 | Peace should be ours too , within the church family , and the origin can only be God . |
| 7 | Darwin 's conclusion then , in direct contrast to that of his even more orthodox Captain , was that the Galapagos finches could only be varieties , and were therefore not worth collecting carefully . |
| 8 | These attacks might only be cattle raids — that 's bad enough-but sometimes they might be more hostile . |
| 9 | While the EV figures will only be guidelines for any individual project , the expected and actual cumulative figures will converge in the long run if the method is consistently applied , maximizing the productivity of the R&D function . |
| 10 | While the EV figures will only be guidelines for any individual project , the expected and actual cumulative figures will converge in the long run if the method is consistently applied , maximizing the productivity of the R&D function . |
| 11 | Taking these two points into consideration leads us to the conclusion that meaningful chain dimensions can only be values averaged over the many conformations assumed . |
| 12 | Her first impression of the man she knew with a sinking feeling could only be Niall Grant was of strong , sun-tanned features which held her gaze as the blue eyes looked coolly into hers , and for the first time in her life her height , which at five feet eight inches had given her an advantage over a lot of men , suddenly seemed diminished . |
| 13 | The exact origins of the ferret can only be guesswork , but either descendants of the polecat line or variations on the resultant interbreeding between stoats and polecats may have given us the ferret we know today . |
| 14 | Proposals to rehabilitate existing broadleaved woods ( which are a source of livestock shelter ) on farms should only be grant aided if the scheme aims to ‘ retain the essential broadleaved character of the woodland with appropriate native tree species ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ The mothers 'll only be skivvies anywhere they get billeted , so I might as well choose my own place . |
| 16 | The real outlet for the misery of the north and north-west could only be emigration . |
| 17 | Electronic records may only be proto-records because they require numerous mechanisms to make them accessible . |
| 18 | Against this view of love as contract , Cave , in The Birthday Party , was almost alone in reinvoking love as malady , monologue , abject dependence , whose ultimate expression could only be violence : the recurrent theme of girl-murder , or at the opposite pole the paroxysm of desire in ‘ Zoo Music Girl ’ , ‘ Oh ! |
| 19 | While some cooperation and coordination in a specific sector might be possible , as long as the hope was to embrace the whole of Western Europe in its ambit , any scheme could only be minimalist . |
| 20 | Education has become part of the political battleground , and its transformation into a non-racial system can only be part of a much broader transformation of society . |
| 21 | They could even have proven to be the negative experience of small ethnic enclaves defending themselves in hostile environments , but even this viewpoint can only be speculation . |
| 22 | ‘ This is why food packaging products can only be 50% recycled . |
| 23 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 24 | Whether personal acrimony stimulated Loder can only be surmise , but it is certainly likely that Bill Saxby , jocked off Craganour after the Two Thousand Guineas , would not be bending over backwards to support that horse 's cause in the enquiry in which , as rider of Louvois , he was called to give evidence . |
| 25 | In the other groups the figure with the thunderbolt can only be Zeus though he rarely lacks a beard . |