Example sentences of "[modal v] only be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the irregular payments for which Stan Flashman 's club were punished may only be the tip of the iceberg . |
| 2 | What looks like a dead end may only be the result of personal weakness . |
| 3 | He was right , she thought , gazing into the distance , there were lights everywhere , some from passing ships and others which could only be the shoreline . |
| 4 | I could only be the Shangri-La Singapore . |
| 5 | The ‘ party ’ of the future could only be the mass of the labouring population , for as he wrote in 1950 , in his self- proclaimed masterpiece : ‘ State Capitalism and World Revolution . ’ |
| 6 | It could only be the doctor — and the breakthrough came . |
| 7 | Ninety may be a good age but who knows for the horse the IRA could n't kill this could only be the start of the search for pastures new . |
| 8 | It could only be the hand of a man , and for a moment she stood quite still , hesitating to pick it up , filled with a gloomy presentiment . |
| 9 | By Gascon custom , observed in 1254 by Henry III and in 1306 by Edward I , this could only be the king-duke 's eldest son . |
| 10 | If it 's inherited from an estate that of itself er attracts no tax , so there tax position would only be the income that they received from it would be subject to income tax and it would be added to their own assets so that when they die in due course then they 've inheritance payable there . |
| 11 | my Lord that , that must be right because that would only be the way in which they could give negative clearance , because the clause or the membership rules were inappreciable |
| 12 | This would only be the case if the latter entitled the individual to look to the government for the provision of certain welfare benefits . |
| 13 | Clearly this would only be the case if the company was perceived as an entity distinct from its shareholders so that it followed that the company and not the shareholders would be liable for any debts . |
| 14 | The United Nations ' mediator , Diego Cordovez , admitted for the first time that a Geneva agreement on a Soviet troop withdrawal would only be the starting point for a settlement . |
| 15 | ‘ And after you return from your first expedition as Scouts , ’ he promised , ‘ other secretions from your body will be blent in this same chalice of the Primarch — which was once His very drinking cup ! — during your induction into the third degree of Brotherhood ; though that in itself will only be the superficies of the third degree ceremony … ’ |
| 16 | But this will only be the case if the debt continues to be remembered as an unrequited obligation by both parties to the transaction . |
| 17 | It would appear that an obligation of confidence may arise in relation to information which is overheard but it seems that this will only be the case where the recipient has used surreptitious means to put himself in a position to overhear the information . |
| 18 | Thus , while they should be drafted , so far as possible , to withstand judicial scrutiny , they will only be the subject of litigation in exceptional cases . |
| 19 | The other is that at the end of time there will only be the kings of Hearts , Spades , Diamonds , Clubs and England . |
| 20 | Often this will only be the recovery of an insurance excess where the accident was caused by the third party . |
| 21 | In the county court , apart from the judge 's own note , there will only be the lawyer 's notes of the decision , and there will also be a written decision from the first instance tribunal . |
| 22 | It will try to leave as much of the restriction as is reasonable in force , but that will only be the result if what remains after deletion of the void provisions can stand alone as a coherent , meaningful agreement : all too often the several restraints are jumbled and effectively unseverable , so that the whole fails . |
| 23 | It should be remembered that a company can only be the firm 's appointed representative if the firm accepts responsibility for the whole of the investment business it carries on on the firm 's behalf . |
| 24 | It can only be the plans for the house alterations , ’ she guessed . |
| 25 | These figures can only be the tip of the iceberg when we see the low rates of eligibility for maternity benefits and full time participation in the paid labour market for mothers with young children ( S. McRae , Maternity Rights in Britain , 1991 PSI ) . |
| 26 | Greenpeace say that this can only be the tip of the iceberg , as far more arrives clandestinely . |
| 27 | and outside where those students sit , I thought the young people were when you read some of that in paper the cigarette ends and crisp packets , well that can only be the students , I mean people go through but they 're not |
| 28 | This might be a glitch in the translation , but when Casaubon observes , ‘ Life is n't simple , the way it is in detective stories ’ , the gobsmacking banality can only be the author 's . |
| 29 | Given the pluralistic nature of society , they can only be the product of hysteria and demagogic manipulation . |
| 30 | The demise of capitalism can only be the consequence of a political struggle and it is the course of this struggle between classes , in the conditions created by the development of the capitalist mode of production , which we now have to examine . |