Example sentences of "could only [be] [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ballistic expert 's evidence was that the defendant 's gun was fitted with a hammer block safety mechanism , which was in proper working order , so that it could only be fired if the trigger was fully pressed back . |
| 2 | It could only be wrestling and the worst sort — American wrestling . |
| 3 | In reply to Trevelyan 's comments about this land being sufficient for the new building , Hall made the astonishing remark that this could only be determined after the plans were sent in by the competing architects . |
| 4 | It could only be assumed that the prints were obtained in a clandestine manner . |
| 5 | The proposal of help could only be accepted if the BF altered their constitution to make explicit their belief in parliamentary government . |
| 6 | Twentieth-century evolutionists such as George Gaylord Simpson have argued that Darwin 's theory of adaptive evolution is incompatible with a belief in the necessity of progress , but in the late nineteenth century a philosophy of universal change could only be accepted if the changes were assumed to have a purposeful goal . |
| 7 | An employment visa ( munkavallaloi vizum ) , which could only be obtained if the foreigner had a work permit , was also introduced . |
| 8 | The effect of this factor , however , could only be detected when the other vulnerability factors were also considered . |
| 9 | The achievement of such a skill by a pupil in response to this question could only be recorded if the method was known . |
| 10 | It could only be concluded that the cause of the intense eye irritation was in some way related to vehicle exhaust emissions . |
| 11 | At Bury St Edmunds the franchise was vested in the thirty-seven members of the corporation , but the complexion of the electorate could only be altered when a vacancy occurred naturally in their ranks . |
| 12 | In one case an immigrant who was present in Britain was denied judicial review of a decision not to give him leave to enter the country because of the existence of a right of appeal which could only be exercised if the immigrant left Britain . |
| 13 | This form of control could only be exercised if the defect existed on the face of the record . |
| 14 | It could only be hoped that the mooring-ropes were in better case than the anchors . |
| 15 | He also made it clear that in his view a lasting political settlement could only be achieved when the Algerian people made their wishes known through the ballot box . |
| 16 | The application failed , as the decision could only be challenged if the decision was thoroughly unreasonable . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) That a secure accommodation order could only be made if the provisions of subsection ( 1 ) were satisfied and the justices had to consider the statutory criteria and then formulate their reasons within the criteria ; that the justices ' reasons clearly demonstrated that they had not considered whether the order was necessary to protect the child from harm if he was likely to abscond from other types of accommodation ; and that , therefore , the appeal would have to be allowed but the court would make an interim order restricting the child 's liberty for three weeks within which time the matter should be reheard ( post , pp. 93C–F , 94H — 95B , 96G–H , 98D ) . |
| 18 | But a difference between the two conditions ( the two INT groups of the figure ) could only be found if the effects of aversive conditioning were context-specific ; and , as we have already seen , aversive conditioning ( at least with a moderate level of initial training and a mild shock as the US such as Kaye et al . |
| 19 | It used to be considered that simulator specifications could only be proposed when the on-line system design had been completed but there are considerable advantages in developing the simulator before the on-line system so that it becomes a dynamic mock-up of the real situation . |
| 20 | The industry was protected until the early 1970s by the rule that foreign machines ( including IBM machines produced in Japan ) could only be purchased if a suitable Japanese model was not available . |
| 21 | The demand for reserve currencies was growing more quickly than the supply of gold , so a liquidity shortage could only be avoided if the supply of dollars was increased . |
| 22 | The bases could only be reactivated if the Egyptian Government agreed that there was a military threat to international integrity of the Suez Canal . |
| 23 | Nobody discovered , pre-opening , that the hair-dryers provided in one luxury provincial hotel could only be used if the guests bent double or sat on the bedroom floor . |
| 24 | This treatment was of no use for aeroplanes because it could only be used when the component was small enough for the formalin to penetrate . |
| 25 | the court or appeal denied the recovery on the grounds that an action could only be brought where the pain and suffering was ‘ reasonably prolonged . ’ |