Example sentences of "they [modal v] only [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 2 | They may only be carried on with the local authority 's consent , and |
| 3 | Barristers may not be approached directly by most clients : they may only be briefed by solicitors . |
| 4 | They may only be used by the Theogonist , and are the only magic cards he can use . |
| 5 | The Supreme Court enjoys an effective if indirect and delayed veto over legislation and executive actions , and where its decisions are based on the Constitution they may only be overridden by constitutional amendment ( involving the approval with two-thirds majorities , of the House and of the Senate , and of three-quarters of the states ) . |
| 6 | Like bristleworms they should only be handled with forceps or aquarium tongs , as either type could do considerable damage to the fishkeeper 's hand . |
| 7 | But avoid unnecessary covenants of indemnity ; they should only be given if someone is truly under a continuing liability . |
| 8 | Gives general guidance on conditions stressing that they should only be imposed where necessary , reasonable and enforceable . |
| 9 | Some of the items are fine as they are but are not given unconditional approval because they should only be eaten in moderation . |
| 10 | But they should only be eaten in small quantities , as should potatoes . |
| 11 | However , Mandela in an address to the General Assembly on Dec. 3 called for the maintenance of economic sanctions , arguing that they should only be lifted in phases corresponding to actual progress . |
| 12 | They should only be used as a starting point for normal contrast subjects . |
| 13 | They should only be used on paths , etc , or to clear a derelict patch of ground that you want to clear a derelict patch of ground that you want to clear but not replant for some time . |
| 14 | However , the complications involved in setting up micro-linked experiments are such that they should only be used when the educational profit is clear . |
| 15 | Stubborn deposits may require application of organic solvents such as acetone or petroleum ether , but as these have harmful effects on skin and may also dissolve or harden the window sealing gaskets , they should only be used as a last resort . |
| 16 | While accepting that wage cuts were theoretically advisable , Keynes at first argued that they should only be attempted as a last resort , after all other remedies had failed . |
| 17 | They should only be established when it is clear that they can function effectively in a given situation . |
| 18 | They could only be killed with a spear through one small spot on their back , or in their mouth , that was not protected by scales . |
| 19 | Whereas in Britain , with the growth of suffrage , catholics could never be perceived as a political threat because of the smallness of their numbers , in Ireland , with the growth of the home rule movement and its accompanying nationalism , they could only be perceived as politically , religiously , and nationally subversive and suspicion of them remained . |
| 20 | Sequences of words would be flashed up on a VDU , so quickly that — in theory — they could only be perceived subliminally . |
| 21 | While most of the strands from which the new synthesis would be woven are already visible before the war , they could only be patterned into a new web within the altered conditions of the university in society , and in the " national life " of the post-war era . |
| 22 | They could only be understood by those educated as courtiers . |
| 23 | Toward the end of the war , many artillery pieces were of such a size and weight that they could only be moved around on specially strengthened railway freight wagons . |
| 24 | Here were the secret histories , the stories behind the stories , the truths so terrible they could only be written as fiction , the chronicles of the insane , the lives of the damned . |
| 25 | It might be that they could only be reached through their elders . |
| 26 | Until relatively recently they could only be reached by sea or on foot , and even now that they are more accessible , they still retain much of their charm and unique character . |
| 27 | Through the eyes of bishops we can catch an occasional glimpse of little groups of them ; but with the conversion of the Franks from c .500 and of the English from c .600 onwards , they could only be found in large numbers on the fringes of Western Christendom and in the outer darkness beyond . |
| 28 | Their silence during the war when Winston Churchill ordered they could only be rung as a warning of invasion . |
| 29 | The debate on the Bill to bring back whipping was a thoroughly undignified affair in which the principles of the matter seemed to count less than considerations such as the size and weight of the flogging instrument to be used : calculations made necessary no less by the desire to limit the discretion of ‘ judges infected by maudlin sentimentality ’ , than by the requirement that it should measure up to the brutes who were ‘ so degraded , that they could only be deterred by forcible appeals to their fear of physical pain ’ . |
| 30 | Although they could only be released following the conclusion of their court cases , the law allowed for them to be provisionally released . |