Example sentences of "may only be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may only be coincidence that the window cleaners were around last weekend when this incident occurred . |
| 2 | These tactics may only be threats , but in the Philippines ’ disappearances ’ are becoming all too common . |
| 3 | The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) . |
| 4 | Electronic records may only be proto-records because they require numerous mechanisms to make them accessible . |
| 5 | If he leaves all to his wife on his death there may only be duty on the £1M non-qualifying assets on his widow 's death . |