Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] only [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The panel is minded to agree that the application is for a project of immense scale and impact and should be determined only after a far-reaching public inquiry . |
| 2 | The legal definition of crime adopted here should be seen only as a starting point . |
| 3 | Less severe bruising on the arm should be covered only by a crêpe bandage . |
| 4 | But Living Wills should be regarded only as a general indication of our wishes . |
| 5 | To be accurate , ‘ private press ’ should be applied only to a press where the owner 's or operator 's chief objective is to print a fine book , without being at the mercy of a publisher 's instructions and a first necessity to show a profit , even though he may sell his wares through commercial channels . |
| 6 | Just as zooming should be done only for a good reason , panning is also a camera move which should be used sparingly if it is not to become visually irritating . |
| 7 | It has been argued , for example , that laterality should be measured only on a nominal scale ( Colbourn , 1978 ) such that only the direction and not the magnitude of any laterality effect is taken into account . |
| 8 | The declaration included a decision that recourse to nuclear weapons should be considered only as a last resort ; the meeting also looked forward to the prospect of a reduction in the armed forces of a united Germany , and issued an invitation to the Warsaw Pact to sign a joint declaration with NATO on non-aggression . |
| 9 | It has to be emphasized that the pedagogical grammar should be used only with a language assistant who is a native speaker of the language . |
| 10 | Successive governments have stressed that imprisonment should be used only as a last resort yet , as we have seen , its use increased during the 1980s . |
| 11 | Descriptions based on comparison of a sound in the new language with a sound in the student 's own language should be used only as a last resort , since dialect differences in languages made such descriptions confusing and often valueless . |
| 12 | 2 The decision to appear should be taken only after a careful look at the benefits and disadvantages of doing so . |
| 13 | It should be clear that such a restoration is not to be undertaken lightly , and it should be entrusted only to a skilled professional . |
| 14 | In practice there is much overlap and all of the above must be taken only as a very approximate guide . |
| 15 | No , Kensington and Kennington might be separated only by a letter of the alphabet but the streets that came between them took you out of one world and into another . |
| 16 | Academic basics can be drummed into a reasonably receptive dealer through the BIDS or Stock Exchange courses , but the practical market know-how that was most needed could be grasped only over a period . |
| 17 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 18 | Very high temperatures and pressures , which could be produced only by a fission explosion , would be required to ignite the fusion reaction between hydrogen isotopes . |
| 19 | Does he agree that a proposal that would impose a massive tax burden on 4 million ordinary people could be produced only by a shower such as those who currently comprise the Opposition ? |
| 20 | Presumably this could be contemplated only in a limited number of constituencies , since anything more ambitious would knock the stuffing out of local activists in one party or the other . |
| 21 | It could be transformed only by a Western victory in a Third World War or by a voluntary Soviet withdrawal . |
| 22 | Given half a chance she 'd have taken on the job of finding a soul-mate for Shannon with all the crusading zeal of a missionary , since she was blissfully convinced that true happiness could be found only in a strong relationship such as the one she had . |
| 23 | He did not disclose the substance of the Libyan suggestions but a delegate at the meeting told Reuters : ‘ Libya 's proposals are still along the lines of its known positions , that the two could be tried only in a third country and not in the United States or Britain . ’ |
| 24 | By law , political parties could be banned only by a court decision , which had not been received . |
| 25 | In many cases , the arbitrator may be appointed only from a list of people approved by the brewer . |
| 26 | Thus , the interests of employees , customers , or the local community , for example , may be served only as a means of increasing shareholder wealth and may not be treated as ends in their own right . |
| 27 | Definitive evidence of discrimination , however , may be obtained only from a prospective study . |
| 28 | This view , however , may be to perceive only as a weakness within the British scene something which may more interestingly be considered an incentive to , even a necessary condition of , modernist and postmodernist writing generally . |
| 29 | Tight coupling relations may be used only in a module of type PACKAGE and must refer to a PREFERRED , LATEST or SELECTED version of the referenced module . |
| 30 | An application for relief may be filed only within a reasonable time after the defendant has knowledge of the judgment . |