Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [modal v] be only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrea Vecchiotti , the managing director of Otis , a maker of lifts and escalators , which is building a $10m plant in Penang , says that direct labour costs will be only 2% of the cost of producing a lift on the island . |
| 2 | It has been observed that there are failures in both these respects and that ‘ [ e ] mpirical analyses consistently show that fluctuations in the stock price can be only modestly related to economic realities ’ . |
| 3 | Jashav Barisna says it 's auction price will be only two percent of it 's original value . |
| 4 | In the Palaeozoic , corals looking generally similar to living reef corals may be only distantly related , if at all , to our present day fauna . |
| 5 | And , as all desktop publishers will be only too well aware , small is beautiful . |
| 6 | Then , when I remarked it was strange that when a person was in trouble , one forgot at once any little grudge one had against them , so that bearing grudges must be only skin-deep , my friend disagreed : she thought the change of heart was because one was willing to be magnanimous when at advantage , having the upper hand . |
| 7 | If the QPOs in NGC5548 derive from instability or variability in an accretion disc around a black hole , the black hole mass can be only a few hundred thousand solar masses , an uncomfortably small number for most AGN models . |
| 8 | Thomas More 's vision of Utopia is that of a society in which private property would be abolished , in which the state would provide food , clothing , housing , education and medical treatment for all its members and in which the working day would be only six hours in length . |
| 9 | The lowest air temperature will be only one or two degrees above freezing point . |
| 10 | Your company pension adviser should be only too happy to answer any questions . |
| 11 | As has been seen clearly from the English and Welsh experience , the initial sales of subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group may be only the beginning of a long and complicated saga . |
| 12 | If death rates declined by 10 per cent during the same period ( a more realistic assumption ) then the growth rate would be only 0.02 per cent higher per annum . |
| 13 | Your local Crime Prevention Officer will be only too happy to provide advice or material for a discussion or a project . |
| 14 | Family cases should be only referred to a solicitor where detailed advice and negotiation about the arrangements to be made for financial provision and for the children were needed ; other civil cases should only be referred once it was clear that court proceedings should be initiated . |
| 15 | In deep water the travelling wave may be only a few feet high : but on those rare occasions when such waves reach shallow water , or coastlines , they can rear up and explode with fearful consequences . |
| 16 | If successful , Party Politics would be only the third horse to win in successive years , in the last 57 years , following on Reynoldstown ( 1935–36 ) and of course , Red Rum ( 1973–74 ) . |