Example sentences of "only be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Museums are at an advantage in making close examination of works in their own collections showing evidence about a picture , say , which can only be discovered by the newest scientific and technological methods . |
| 2 | Even taped interviews can only be read with caution , since they may have been edited , and the reader will not be told how . |
| 3 | ‘ This theoretically realistic and humorous novel is not unlike The Waste Land , the showpiece of Modernism and Impersonality ’ — which gives the impression that the realistic and humorous can only be deemed compatible with impersonality if they can also be deemed theoretical , and that the novel may not be very funny . |
| 4 | In such a setting , he believes , his work as a teacher can only be betrayed . |
| 5 | As far as grants are concerned , students who apply for a place are almost certain to have used at least three years ' worth of their local authority grant entitlement while studying at university or polytechnic , and may only be eligible for a further one-year entitlement if they have been accepted at a drama school . |
| 6 | You will not only be sure of the text , but , more than this , of the character you are portraying . |
| 7 | The new student does not perform to audiences immediately , and the first term 's production project will probably only be attended by staff teaching voice , movement and acting to enable individual assessments to be made on training . |
| 8 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |
| 9 | Whereas in Britain , with the growth of suffrage , catholics could never be perceived as a political threat because of the smallness of their numbers , in Ireland , with the growth of the home rule movement and its accompanying nationalism , they could only be perceived as politically , religiously , and nationally subversive and suspicion of them remained . |
| 10 | Concessions would only be required once a united Ireland was being negotiated ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : xii . |
| 11 | They could even have proven to be the negative experience of small ethnic enclaves defending themselves in hostile environments , but even this viewpoint can only be speculation . |
| 12 | What looks like a dead end may only be the result of personal weakness . |
| 13 | Language itself , he said , would cease to function as it had always functioned , it would only be a strange dead thing , smouldering perhaps , but burnt out , no longer conveying any meaning . |
| 14 | There can only be description , he wrote , The Big Glass . |
| 15 | But death can only be fought with death , and life with life , he wrote . |
| 16 | Anything else would only be a repetition . |
| 17 | A moment or two later a man who , from his lanky form and fine-boned features , could only be her fiancé , Lord Woodleigh , emerged , evidently doing his best to overcome a certain reluctance . |
| 18 | The unusual juxtaposition of these two words can only be a subconscious association in the author 's mind with the well-known carol , The Twelve Days of Christmas whose repetitive chorus ends , ‘ And a partridge in a pear-tree . ’ |
| 19 | And it would only be for one night . |
| 20 | ‘ But it would only be temporary . ’ |
| 21 | This kind of blow-over can only be avoided by manning the glider all the time or by tying it down with pickets , preferably with the wings level and all its control surfaces locked to prevent them flapping against their stops . |
| 22 | This can only be avoided by releasing the tow promptly before the situation develops . |
| 23 | Remember that if the glider is drifting towards an obstruction this can only be stopped by banking away from it and not by just applying the rudder . |
| 24 | Such incidents can only be avoided if the pilot has a more open mind about where he is going to land . |
| 25 | After landing , the aircraft was found to have split fabric and extensive minor damage to the wings , which could only be attributed to overstressing at high speed . |
| 26 | But landing safely in torrential rain , with a squally and unpredictable wind , can only be a matter of luck for the most skilled pilot . |
| 27 | Should only be offered to women for whom other methods are unsuitable . |
| 28 | So when the police declare ( as they do ) that they are non-political institution , this can only be a partial truth . |
| 29 | Returning to academia he can recall the spatial remove as being ‘ out there in the field ’ ; so that much of the current anthropology at home may still only be practising in its own backyard , pursuing an exploration of ‘ exotic cultures at home ’ rather than looking into its own front room ( Cheater 1987 : 166 ) . |
| 30 | This ethnography is therefore an attempt to meet the dilemma , for the problem of revelation and betrayal continues to surface and can only be resolved , at best , by overcoming these subjective feelings and pursuing compromises ( Barnes 1981 : 2 ) . |