Example sentences of "[modal v] only be [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should only be given to babies that can be observed easily in a room in which staff are always present . |
| 2 | This term should only be applied to patients who fulfil the following conditions : ( i ) have a normal jejunal biopsy while taking a normal diet ; ( ii ) at some other time , before or since , have had a flat jejunal biopsy which recovers on a gluten free diet . |
| 3 | In reality , the term should only be applied to items made under royal commission , but in practice it is used for any rug from these weaving centres produced in the Pahlavi style ( pls 36 , 37 ) . |
| 4 | When x is in a cluster C and y is not in a cluster , then perhaps y should only be added to C if d ( x , y ) < twice diameter(C) |
| 5 | From an overall policy point of view , assistance should only be provided to communities or municipalities which present an integrated rural development plan conforming to specific economic , social and ecological criteria . |
| 6 | Direct Debit instructions should only be addressed to Banks in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | Should only be offered to women for whom other methods are unsuitable . |
| 8 | There had been some plants under construction for wartime-approved purposes , but in 1945 itself only 170MW of new plant had been completed , and in 1946 this could only be increased to 288MW and in 1947 to 340MW . |
| 9 | Type in a filename and the graph template will be saved in memory and will only be stored to disk when you save it again . |
| 10 | alcohol can only be served to persons taking table meals . |
| 11 | Is a complex idea which can only be explained to parents with great difficulty . |
| 12 | In the case of the substantive apple , it is obvious that the lexeme evoked by this word can only be applied to objects of our experience which are by nature apples : it can not be said of a pen or an eraser . |
| 13 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 14 | Opinion on an individual 's functioning can only be given to others with that person 's consent . |
| 15 | For example , we have already noted the argument ( and see Chapter 2 below ) that if semantics is to be truth-conditional , then the truth conditions can only be assigned to utterances , not sentences — in other words , contextual specifications are a necessary input to a semantic component , and thus pragmatics is ( at least in this respect ) 16 prior to semantics . |
| 16 | The most difficult question is what to do with the beef mountain , created , in the words of one senior Commission official , by a process which ‘ takes the best beef , freezes it and so destroys it , with the result that it can only be sold to people who can not afford it . ’ |
| 17 | In contrast to neighbouring Cuxton , where a most important Palaeolithic site was discovered in 1962 , the prehistory of Hailing as known at present can only be shown to date from Neolithic , or New Stone Age , times . |
| 18 | then he or she can only be forced to hand back the item if the price it cost him or her is paid in compensation [ Art . |