Example sentences of "would [verb] only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the corporation has suggested so far is a vague road and landscaping scheme that would affect only part of the pub garden and car park . |
| 2 | The European Community competition commissioner Karel Van Miert is endorsing proposals — bitterly contested in the more state corporatist member countries — for breaking up national telephone monopolies by 1998 to free markets for calls both within and between member states ; the idea of an interim deregulation that would affect only transborder traffic has now been abandoned ; the UK is the only Community member open to phone call competition ; Denmark will follow suit next year and the Netherlands is expected to move as well ; Van Miert wants the Community to set liberalisation priorities and a timetable by year end , including proposals for regulatory changes by the end of 1994 , with market-opening to start in 1995 . |
| 3 | To lecture the material would bring only boredom and rebellion , which is why outright dictation is usually only practised with the most self-selected , high ability groups . |
| 4 | Estimates that creating the Fsx would cost only ¥165 billion ( at 1985 prices ) were good for nothing more than selling the project to parliament which had to vote the money . |
| 5 | Half a century before , it is true , H. G. Wells and Havelock Ellis had proclaimed that socialism would require the extermination of the unfit by the state ; and soon after , Bernard Shaw had urged scientists to devise painless methods of killing , since the new society would tolerate only workers , and the doctrine of the sanctity of human life , like all doctrines of sanctity , was antiquated claptrap . |
| 6 | Then a pack of cards , and backgammon , Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly because she was sure the cottage would have only Snakes and Ladders and jigsaws with several pieces missing . |
| 7 | We would have only McGurk 's word for what happened subsequently if I had not positioned my ear by the keyhole of his office . |
| 8 | If one imagines a machine that can travel from junction to junction almost instantaneously , finding a path to the exit would take only seconds . |
| 9 | That would mean only niche markets , possibly for added value processed products . |
| 10 | For a $10,000 hospital stay , though , a patient would pay only 5% of the cost . |
| 11 | Even under the old Labour scheme somebody on £130 a week would pay £26 in national insurance — employers and employees contributions combined — whereas under the Conservative proposals somebody on the same earnings would pay only £19.24 . |
| 12 | An advisory committee had voiced doubts about L* 's management and cost — likely to be more than $700m , of which the SSC would pay only $250m . |
| 13 | But this would raise only £1 million a year — nothing like enough to break even . |
| 14 | For this reason you are not asked questions which would require only knowledge , as this would be solely a test of memory . |
| 15 | She inspected the rooms and found them perfectly tolerable and assured Wilson the ladies would require only coffee in the morning and would otherwise dine elsewhere . |
| 16 | It still retains all its working parts and would require only minimum repairs to put it into full working order . |