Example sentences of "should 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 . |