Example sentences of "[adv] [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Given the pluralistic nature of society , they can only be the product of hysteria and demagogic manipulation . |
| 32 | It could only be the doctor — and the breakthrough came . |
| 33 | This might be a glitch in the translation , but when Casaubon observes , ‘ Life is n't simple , the way it is in detective stories ’ , the gobsmacking banality can only be the author 's . |
| 34 | Often this will only be the recovery of an insurance excess where the accident was caused by the third party . |
| 35 | By Gascon custom , observed in 1254 by Henry III and in 1306 by Edward I , this could only be the king-duke 's eldest son . |
| 36 | Lastly , the United Kingdom argued that , if any national of a member state could establish himself in another member state and , without more , exercise the same right to fish as that enjoyed by the nationals of that latter member state , it would not only be the quota system which would be undermined . |
| 37 | What looks like a dead end may only be the result of personal weakness . |
| 38 | During the lexicographic stage this can only be the result of the creation of a new entry . |
| 39 | It states that , apart from stochastic disturbances emanating from u , , deviations of output from its full employment , natural value can only be the result of errors in predicting the price level . |
| 40 | It will try to leave as much of the restriction as is reasonable in force , but that will only be the result if what remains after deletion of the void provisions can stand alone as a coherent , meaningful agreement : all too often the several restraints are jumbled and effectively unseverable , so that the whole fails . |
| 41 | Churchyards should not only be the resting places for our bodies , but could , with very little effort , be transformed into glorious meadows buzzing with bees and butterflies — wildlife service stations in arable and urban deserts . |
| 42 | It could only be the hand of a man , and for a moment she stood quite still , hesitating to pick it up , filled with a gloomy presentiment . |
| 43 | it considers such an education to be the greatest safeguard against the dangerous growth of State power , to be indispensable for the preservation of an effective democracy and to be the one , moreover , which can only be the province of a voluntary independent movement ; |
| 44 | Ninety may be a good age but who knows for the horse the IRA could n't kill this could only be the start of the search for pastures new . |
| 45 | Formulas of this kind can only be the starting point in a process which always demands a sophisticated approach . |
| 46 | The United Nations ' mediator , Diego Cordovez , admitted for the first time that a Geneva agreement on a Soviet troop withdrawal would only be the starting point for a settlement . |
| 47 | This can only be the web of Textrix denticulata , a small and prettily marked relative of the large house spider , which makes sheet webs in houses and outhouses . |
| 48 | The demise of capitalism can only be the consequence of a political struggle and it is the course of this struggle between classes , in the conditions created by the development of the capitalist mode of production , which we now have to examine . |
| 49 | And what will be an angle for , for one paper or one magazine or one programme wo n't necessarily be the angle for another one . |
| 50 | While the focus of our endeavour must necessarily be the degree to which the project has achieved its own stated objectives , the evaluators have felt free to go beyond the limits which those objectives described . |
| 51 | Well he knows that his views may not necessarily be the majority and count in the end , but at least they 're being taken into account and being considered to be important . |
| 52 | When a bequest fails through the death of the person for whom it was intended , and does not pass under a residuary bequest , as must necessarily be the case if the bequest which falls is itself residuary , the property will be dealt with as upon an intestacy . |
| 53 | The point is that the second version contains superfluous and irrelevant information , though this would not necessarily be the case if we were explaining what we do in the morning to an ( English-speaking ! ) |
| 54 | Crompton and Jones suggest that in the future it will not necessarily be the case that male clerks will be able to enjoy so much upward mobility . |
| 55 | * Costs and revenues are assumed to behave in a linear fashion ; this will not necessarily be the case . |
| 56 | Although a national unity government would not necessarily be the answer to some of Greece 's problems it is the only way out of the current political impasse if the weary Greek voter is to be saved from going to the polls again . |
| 57 | Furthermore , the Charter implied that the two greatest trading nations of the world should take domestic action to expand their demand , for the international expansion of trade which the Americans wanted to see after the war would necessarily be the sum of many domestic expansions . |
| 58 | When the case first came before the Court of Appeal , the court , finding no assistance in the text of the Convention itself , held in effect that the proceedings had to be regarded as in a ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ both under the law of the requesting country , which must necessarily be the starting-point , and that of England , the courts of which had to be satisfied that the request did fall within the terms of the Act . |
| 59 | Promotional and sales effort will need to find the right target ( which may Not necessarily be the buying department ) , otherwise it may be wasted . |
| 60 | It would n't necessarily be the end of the world , though it would seem like it ! ’ |