Example sentences of "only [vb infin] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policy must of course be converted into practice ; in both these schools overall spending policy and staffing priorities were significant expressions of commitment by the heads , and this can only have strengthened the resolve of those members of staff who served on the library committees and immersed themselves in the day-to-day business of winning a place in the project . |
| 2 | You may only have seen the property once , and for all sorts of emotive reasons , may have fallen in love with the place . |
| 3 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 4 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 5 | Had they gone , they would only have heard the pupils : in the City Temple they heard the master . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Relax ’ may only have become a scandal when the BBC in belated confusion ( and in response to teasing video clips ) banned it , but singers Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford promote an explicitly gay image , and ‘ Two Tribes ’ was a pointed response to nuclear defence policy . |
| 7 | I saw a live TV transmission of Il trovatore from the Metropolitan in New York a few weeks ago that can only have confirmed a lot of people 's worst prejudices about opera — dull production , dull filming , all wrapped round with a certain amount of superstar hype . |
| 8 | Thus , if pursuant to the will of X the property is vested in Y as legatee and Y subsequently sells the property for £550,000 , Y will only have made a taxable gain ( subject to the indexation allowance ) of £50,000 . |
| 9 | He could only have satisfied the expectations Labour has raised in Scotland and Wales by putting Labour 's ability to win future British elections at risk . |
| 10 | It may be that bizarre , self-destructive and anti-social behaviour which would once only have afflicted the true psychotic will increasingly come to typify what would otherwise have been purely neurotic disorders had they been internalized as hitherto . |
| 11 | But Mr Lawson and the Bank may only have bought a week for sterling . |
| 12 | Differences occurred as to means , but examination of the electoral manifestos throughout the 1960s and 1970s shows a reluctance to politicize issues which , given the intractable nature of crime and the limited efficacy of measures to counter it , would only have had the effect of exciting popular expectations beyond the capacity of any government to fulfil . |
| 13 | You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about . |
| 14 | For if Eliot 's debt to the French poets went beyond an easy charting of ‘ influences ’ , or the neat and better than neat adaptation of French lines ( for instance , from Laforgue ) into English , it could only have meant an elimination from poetry of any notion of ‘ message ’ . |
| 15 | The additional space thus provided would not only have allowed the reproduction of documents of a useful length , but would also have avoided anomalies such as the absence of any statements by the Third Marquis of Salisbury , Stanley Baldwin , Walter Elliot , Noel Skelton , the ‘ Mannheim Group ’ , and other leading Conservative politicians and publicists of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 16 | It would only have taken a word and the simple , undeniable proof . |
| 17 | The degree of pressure the Russians felt from Castro is indicated by the fact that in the course of this discussion Mikoian raised the possibility of the reciprocal inspection of territory ( ‘ and then we would not have any trouble with Castro on getting international inspection in Cuba ’ ) , and even mentioned Puerto Rico , although he can only have expected the immediately forthcoming flat refusal by the United States ( Memorandum to the Secretary of State from Mr McCloy , 25 November 1962 , US Declassified , 1985 , 002292 ) . |
| 18 | Even if " organizational unity " with the ILP had been carried through , this would at best only have doubled the small membership of the Communist Party . |
| 19 | Given these factors , any attempt to brand the Celtic Church heretical would only have entailed the complete loss of Ireland . |
| 20 | ‘ If she had married before she died , the sister would only have got a small legacy . |
| 21 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |