Example sentences of "would [vb infin] only [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observers commented that the modifications would make only a token difference to the King 's real power . |
| 2 | While the United States would yield a constant strategic threat to the Soviet homeland the USSR would yield only a first strike threat to the American fleet . |
| 3 | By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times . |
| 4 | Although the extension would provide only a small number of places , he hoped they would be the first of many in that area of Darlington . |
| 5 | If the explanation of affinity is true , then it is possible that spermatozoa produced by a male hybrid would contain only the paternal chromosomes , and will therefore carry the Y sex chromosome , a donkey-Y in male mules and a horse-Y in male hinnies . |
| 6 | Screening of athletes would detect only a small proportion of affected individuals , though it may reduce the risks of sudden death on exertion for those few . |
| 7 | From examining the shapes of these graphs it would appear that increasing the size of the corpus would have only a small effect on the percentage of bigram transitions found . |
| 8 | Although the Foreign Office may say that the mooted treaty on political union would have only a marginal impact on the EC , it would clearly diminish national sovereignty . |
| 9 | But it pointed out that the delays would have only a marginal impact on the total UK production profile and would help to sustain the mid-1990s production plateau beyond the turn of the century . |
| 10 | He had to tempt his man to go on the offensive and close with him , sure of his superior speed and skill , because his intended surprise attack would have only the one chance of success . |
| 11 | The following exercise would take only a few minutes every day . |
| 12 | It would take only a few minutes to open a door , search out the riding boots and pour a little mercury over each spur . ’ |
| 13 | It would take only a minor leap of faith , a moment of transcendence , to believe that Christine Ashdown stared back . |
| 14 | When compared with rates levied on other houses in the road , this would indicate only a modest establishment . |
| 15 | The Moroccan said that athletes might still take drugs if they thought being caught would mean only a temporary ban . |
| 16 | Everyone from the governor to the humblest creeping ‘ trustie ’ knew that Michael Holly would serve only a minimal proportion of those fifteen years . |
| 17 | So a microwave system would heat only the wet areas of cloth . |
| 18 | If the lender under such an instrument had the right to require early redemption , but on exercise of that right he would receive only the original issue price , it would be unrealistic to assume that he would exercise it unless the issuer 's creditworthiness deteriorated to a significant extent . |
| 19 | A couple of years ago FAST would get only a few complaints about car boot sales a year . |
| 20 | In 1935 , the very same Neville Chamberlain , who ten years earlier had even been considering a contributory earnings-related scheme , could tell the Conservative Party annual conference that better retirement pensions would be prohibitively costly , would release only a paltry number of jobs and would create grave legal and administrative problems in enforcing the retirement condition : ‘ Are you going to create a new penal offence — the offence of doing work ? ’ he asked . |
| 21 | The laboratory would add only the Taq polymerase enzyme and the specimen , and then place the tube into the thermal cycler . |
| 22 | In contrast , use of a thesaurus would require only the broad term ( in this case , ‘ metal ’ ) to be stated , plus the relationship to be investigated ( in this case the narrower terms ) . |
| 23 | If there was a very large output , perhaps from some other part of the world , and buyers would offer only a lower price , such as £110 per tonne , the EEC either paid their farmers the difference , of £16 , or bought the surplus grain and stored it for future use . |
| 24 | But RCA would offer only a one-off payment of $1 million . |
| 25 | They had no ration cards for buying food and , in any case , their money would last only a little while . |