Example sentences of "would [verb] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions about the reasonableness of the amount charged would arise only if the concept was part of that contract . |
| 2 | Schemes for the unemployed , such as community work , might be helpful for those involved but would cover only a fraction of the three million people out of work , he said . |
| 3 | A possible limitation to this is the suggestion that it would cover only those matters which had been before the House , or at least those coming before the House in the current Parliamentary session . |
| 4 | He opposed the new clause because it would cover only half of the Scottish bus industry — that half which the Bill will privatise . |
| 5 | The government had begun to introduce from March 20 monthly compensation payments on top of wages , pensions , student grants and child benefit , albeit conceding that these would cover only around 85 per cent of the cost of the price rises . |
| 6 | If this image were displayed using the methods described earlier it would lack very dark values ( 0–24 ) as well as medium to bright values ( 91–255 ) and would cover only the dark to medium grey range . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He said other Budget changes would affect only the rich and yet would increase the RPI and so benefits based on the RPI would be raised . |
| 10 | Evidence continued to be submitted relating to the CPSU 's role in Soviet politics in the period since March 1990 , when it surrendered its constitutionally guaranteed monopoly of power [ see p. 37299 ] , the Court having indicated that its evaluation of the party 's constitutionality would relate only to this limited period . |
| 11 | American hopes that Castro would make only gradual changes were quickly dashed . |
| 12 | ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat . |
| 13 | Observers commented that the modifications would make only a token difference to the King 's real power . |
| 14 | This Minotaur was imprisoned in a labyrinth beneath the Palace of Knossus and , as it would eat only human flesh , each year seven handsome youths and seven beautiful maidens were sent in to the monster 's lair to meet their doom . |
| 15 | The farmers ' wives indulged him in the harshness of his religious practices , never minding that he brought his own delph and cutlery and would eat only boiled eggs and bread . |
| 16 | The Iranians would consider only two meeting places : one in the middle of some southern marshes , the other several miles behind Iraqi lines . |
| 17 | The last major alteration to the offside law was made in 1925 when it was decided that , instead of needing three opponents between himself and the goalline to stay onside , an attacker would need only two . |
| 18 | The Foundation would need only half the total area . |
| 19 | Yorkshire Holly is on a down path over hurdles , but on his best Flat form remains on a workable mark , while good jump winners Bonanza and Marlin Dancer would need only to show a glimpse of that ability to be dangerous off bottom weight . |
| 20 | It would need only fifty feet either way , and she could not be seen . |
| 21 | If I had to give Ferguson advice about bringing the best out of him , I would need only one word — dialogue . ’ |
| 22 | He would need only the briefest of feels . |
| 23 | Assuming the same number of MPs as in 1987 and the same total number of votes , here taken to be list votes , a pasty would need only 50,000 , or 0.15% , in order to have an arithmetically proportionate claim to one seat , a claim it would be unreasonable to honour . |
| 24 | It would need only a charge of the cavalry , or a shot fired over their heads , to set them off . |
| 25 | He began the Standard 's Premonitions Bureau to record and date any claims of prophecies , and which would act only as an independent and impartial witness . |
| 26 | Veljko Kadijevic on Sept. 12 rejected an order from Mesic ( the nominal commander of the JNA ) to withdraw troops to barracks within 48 hours and reiterated that the JNA would act only if ordered by the Presidency as a whole . |
| 27 | According to a Moscow Radio World Service report on Feb. 25 the Cabinet was to consist of 55 members , compared with 69 members in the former Council of Ministers ( earlier reports had suggested that the Cabinet would include only around 15 ministers , plus the republican heads of government — see p. 37904 ) . |
| 28 | An estimated 1,000,000 tonnes would go to Russia in return for oil , but would buy only about 1,500,000 tonnes , whereas , Castro stated , under previous Soviet agreements one tonne of sugar had bought 7.5 tonnes of oil . |
| 29 | Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 . |
| 30 | Mr Ford also forecast that Railtrack , the proposed state-owned track authority , would be less likely to invest in improved services , because it would have no commercial incentive , and would concentrate only on safety . |