Example sentences of "[vb mod] only [be] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | In almost all cases testing may only be done with the fully informed consent of the person being tested . |
| 2 | You should select of the following options which may only be done when the combination of old and new mail is not zero : — |
| 3 | The effect of this is to make clear that registration as an RFL does not entitle the RFL to undertake work which may only be done by a solicitor , and also that an RFL must not put solicitors or recognised bodies in breach of rules , or other requirements of conduct . |
| 4 | Should only be done before and after intervention . |
| 5 | Although some doctors may recommend putting a board under the mattress , this should only be done in an emergency . |
| 6 | Again , this should only be done if the new entity has some meaning in itself . |
| 7 | They can also be used to induce the birth of kids , but plainly this must only be done when the kids are due . |
| 8 | I have declined to act as external examiner to candidates whose subject or thesis title seemed to be so dubious that a successful treatment of it could only be done by a candidate of exceptional brilliance ; in such cases it is likely that the candidate has had inadequate or misguided supervision . |
| 9 | If Charlemagne strove to achieve the regeneration and salvation of the society over which he ruled , this could only be done in association with the clergy . |
| 10 | Three options were given and the basic tasks column was taken to indicate work that could only be done under supervision or instruction , or the repetitive work such as feeding . |
| 11 | The new cereals were capable of doubling or trebling the produce of a cultivated hectare but this could only be done by investing in a package of changes . |
| 12 | This was not merely to avoid high costs on difficult engineering problems , but to link as many villages as convenient with a system of transport , something that could only be done previously with wagons or packhorses . |
| 13 | Such a capacity would not explain the specific instances of human sociocultural arrangements in their immense variety — that could only be done by reference to local histories , local circumstances , and local causes but it could explain how such a range and history of variation was possible at all . |
| 14 | This shuttling back and forth between the personae could only be done so adroitly by a poet exceptionally sensitive to the status and function of pronouns . |
| 15 | While anyone could go off and learn typesetting in a corner , imposition could only be done with " real " matter . |
| 16 | It could only be done with an unacceptable degree of course content imposition . |
| 17 | Joseph and his Spanish supporters tried to break the fiefs of the occupying generals by sending out civil commissioners , who soon found that , if they were to get anything done at all , it could only be done as subordinates of the generals on the spot . |
| 18 | If there was a widespread desire to alter the degree of influence exercised by Parliament and to make the life of a backbench MP an attractive prospect in its own right for public-spirited men and if this could only be done by the acceptance of some new countervailing powers , this would be no harder for successive governments than , for example , accepting the limitations involved in joining the Common Market . |
| 19 | But it could only be done if there was this general agreement about the direction in which democracy in Britain should develop and about the role which Parliament should play . |
| 20 | Eogan had told Snizort about the ritual mating between Humans and beasts , which could only be done under the strict control of the Court Sorcerers and the Panel of Judges , and Snizort had been entranced . |
| 21 | This could only be done by the Trustees , as members could not afford to fund entirely . |
| 22 | The two-tier structure under which forensic work would only be done by specialists , as envisaged in your editorial , may or may not become a reality , but it will not lessen the need for all doctors to be trained in the elements of medicolegal matters if their work brings them into contact with those in police custody . |
| 23 | I would only be doing it for you ! ’ |
| 24 | But , in the contemporary study of an institution such as a factory or a college , it may be necessary to analyse hundreds of questionnaires or interview schedules , and this will only be done successfully and without trouble if the research worker knew in advance what was wanted and how the data could be analysed before it was collected . |
| 25 | It can only be done with conviction , with the sort of approach we used in 1969 with Ostpolitik . |
| 26 | There are no manuals for this struggle , for it can only be done by those who have pure hearts and sharp wits and the wisdom to know themselves . |
| 27 | Shifting between the gears in these two lower ratios can only be done with the tractor at a standstill , so it does n't matter that they are unsynchronised . |
| 28 | This can only be done , he suggests , by moving away from hierarchy and towards a position in which everyone is a manager . |
| 29 | In the assessment of cleanliness this can only be done by inspection to be carried out after cleaning has been completed . |
| 30 | This can only be done , of course , with authors who lived within modern categorizations of sexuality — but that period , after all , does include the entire history of the cinema . |