Example sentences of "[modal v] only [be] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may only be 5 ft 4 ins but he is a giant among small players . ’ |
| 2 | In practical terms this is translated into the maxim ‘ get it in the bucket ’ , a rule of particular importance in ‘ one-off ’ rather than continuing pollutions , since there may only be one chance to sample . |
| 3 | But what I 'm saying is that there may only be one proof sense is what we as individuals derive from that proof . |
| 4 | In a small employment agency there may only be one interviewer and you will put yourself at a disadvantage if you make a bad start . |
| 5 | There may only be one ground for divorce — irretrievable breakdown — but the only way you can prove it is by proving you 've got one of five grounds going for you : |
| 6 | Test kits have a limited shelf life which may only be twelve months in some cases . |
| 7 | There may only be 9–5 cover or even less . |
| 8 | The BBC said there should only be five firefighters in the film and they were . |
| 9 | ( A screw told me that a prison regulation stated that there should only be two chairs for every three women . ) |
| 10 | FA chief executive Graham Kelly said last night : ‘ Already there are members of FIFA who believe there should only be one team from the British Isles competing in the World Cup and European Championship . |
| 11 | ALTHOUGH I agree that many industries are run better by private enterprise than by the state , I think there should only be one bank . |
| 12 | I 'll only be five minutes . |
| 13 | Come on it 'll only take us , we 'll only be five minutes . |
| 14 | Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration . |
| 15 | Oh good lord yes , she 's doing well , in fact eh , some time in November this year she 'll only be two years younger than me . |
| 16 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 17 | I 'll only be ten minutes . |
| 18 | He 'll only be ten minutes . ’ |
| 19 | To Etienne , this could only be one person — the blanc who had threatened to betray him to the President in the conversation which Etienne now interpreted with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 20 | I knew there could only be one person . ’ |
| 21 | However , an election was fought , and there could only be one winner . |
| 22 | ‘ There could only be one winner , and that would be The Doc , ’ Nichol has said . |
| 23 | Yet it did not require much imagination to see that it could only be one thing : the so-called " rice-water " fluid from a cholera patient , which Dr McNab claimed was so deadly . |
| 24 | It could only be one thing , a Fax machine . |
| 25 | ‘ I wept on the night the sidh were last seen at Tara , ’ said Dierdriu , ‘ for I knew that they could only sing for one of you , and that there could only be one ruler . |
| 26 | But he was expecting a decision now , and with Angel firmly in mind there could only be one answer . |
| 27 | It could only be one source — only one source had his number here . |
| 28 | With a nose like this it could only be one plane . |
| 29 | In the end there could only be one option for de Gaulle , but the time it took him to make the decision indicated how difficult it was . |
| 30 | There could only be one reason why Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Health , was refusing to accept binding arbitration in the dispute . |