Example sentences of "could only [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the ingenious forms of longer-term borrowing undertaken by the United States from overseas monetary authorities merely changed the form of these liabilities , and could only be a stop-gap . |
| 2 | Given Jacqui 's simple character , it could only be a man . |
| 3 | But she sees him suppress what could only be a smirk at her very mention of a dybbuk . |
| 4 | ‘ It could only be a madman , could n't it ? |
| 5 | But such a calculation could only be a gamble . |
| 6 | Natural theology , even of Brunner 's qualified kind , could only be a snare and a delusion , a thing in which one ought to have no interest except that properly shown for an abyss beside the path — the interest whose concern is to avoid falling into it . |
| 7 | And now there was the loud crashing retort of what could only be a pistol shot , joined immediately by the rattling , roaring sound of thunder in the sky . |
| 8 | I , however , could only be a nun like my aunt or I could be like my Mam . |
| 9 | It could only be a body of free , indigenous men . |
| 10 | Jerusalem , the very heart of Christendom , had been captured and it could only be a matter of time before the remaining Christian forces , still holding on at Tyre , Tripoli and Antioch , were overcome or expelled . |
| 11 | As for de Gaulle , his views were already well-known , and it could only be a matter of time before he attacked Hallstein and his Commission . |
| 12 | The Dwarfs sent word to the Dwarf capital of Karaz a Karak high in the Worlds Edge Mountains , explaining that the Night Goblins were virtually holding them prisoners within their own citadel and that without reinforcements it could only be a matter of time before the Dwarfs were defeated . |
| 13 | It could only be a matter of time before Wainfleet was using the information for his own purposes . |
| 14 | It could only be a matter of time , though , before we got together . |
| 15 | The plaintiffs said that interpretation of the agreement could only be a matter for the court . |
| 16 | At work , he could only be a trade unionist . |
| 17 | The idea of unitary authorities structure plans , er I think could only be a disaster and the first option which is the most viable , could of course be a dissipation of democracy of the indirect democracy er because erm I think what you probably have is a number of officers , civil servants and a scattering of councillors er and really the the direct local involvement which we have now through directly elected councillors on , on planning committees and strategic planning committees would have . |
| 18 | And from its summit it is entirely possible to see a stretch of water which — whether to a sixteenth-century viewer innocent of the details of geography , or to a well-versed wanderer five centuries later — could only be an ocean . |
| 19 | Any new development of another Left party could only be an attempt " to reach for the Leftward workers and draw them back to the basic Labour line " . |