Example sentences of "that [modal v] only be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her antiseptic presence transformed Mr Sunderland 's office into a place where children were condemned not to the cane or detention but to threadworms or impetigo or a terrible weakness of the chest that could only be treated in some distant sanatorium . |
| 4 | The Centre for Research on User Studies asked its respondents to indicate ‘ topics for which you think there is most need for external provision of training ’ , and while there was little evidence of lack of interest in external training or lack of perceived need , there was also little evidence of discrimination between needs that could be met by a range of methods and needs that could only be met by external provision . |
| 5 | I think there was a perception from other vendors that the bid itself had specifications that could only be met by G Tec . |
| 6 | From his position at the Paris museum , he promulgated a new approach in which animals would be classified not by their external appearance but by internal resemblances that could only be revealed by dissection . |
| 7 | Fleischmann told him that they were seeing heat coming from their cell in amounts that could only be understood if nuclear fusion was happening . |
| 8 | The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms . |
| 9 | The latter urged far-reaching reforms that could only be implemented by a revolutionary dictatorship , which would need to realign itself internationally in order to secure protection against the United States . |
| 10 | As to whether it has also increased proportionally is a matter that could only be determined empirically , although one could surmise that it has so increased . |
| 11 | Rumours of such ‘ snuff ’ movies had been carefully fostered in the New York Press with accounts of private screenings at Mafia parties , and when it was claimed that one had been acquired for public exhibition , it was advertised with the slogan : ‘ Blood Money , the film that could only be made in South America … where Life is CHEAP ! ’ |
| 12 | He looked straight at Marshka ; it was a look that could only be recognized by the others as defiant . |
| 13 | Let me hasten to say that in many schools , particularly in the West Riding , fine education took place , but far from it helping to increase drama in schools , it had the reverse effect for two reasons : ( 1 ) it appeared once more to be something that could only be handled by a specialist — this time a P.E . |
| 14 | To the anatomists who worked in the museum or the dissecting room , processes that could only be observed in the field were of little interest . |
| 15 | The Eddie Aikau denoted a big-wave contest of a kind that could only be held in Hawaii . |
| 16 | Navarre committed 12 infantry battalions , artillery and some tanks to a place that could only be supplied by air . |
| 17 | It was a balancing act that could only be accomplished by constant recourse to the ‘ threat ’ of communist revolution , the economic power of the Jewish presence and the racial and nationalist danger of the inferior Poles . |
| 18 | The chief inspector shivered with an indefinable dread , the fear she always experienced when faced by a hatred that could only be satiated through violence . |
| 19 | It was almost as if she was suffering from some dreadful disease that could only be cured by his physical removal . |
| 20 | There was a spattering of noise at her window that could only be thrown gravel , although she 'd never heard the sound before . |
| 21 | She spoke in a curiously musical , richly accented way with a certain pattern that could only be described as antique — as though the speech mannerisms of the local dales folk of two centuries ago had been preserved within Hannah . |
| 22 | Of all the films Ocean might 've obtained the licence to , they chose one that could only be described as mediocre . |
| 23 | Jan Wolf , husband of Dobroslawa Miodowicz-Wolf , who was Al Rouse 's partner on K2 in 1986 and who , like him , so tragically died , managed an ascent of Lubyanka in conditions that could only be described as green . |
| 24 | The Midland could often owe Barclays and National Westminster up to £10bn in the normal course of business , balances that would only be settled at the end of each day . |
| 25 | Rehearsal time for the cast would be limited , just a few days together in a church hall with sticky tape on the floor and a few odd props to suggest sets that will only be seen on the Friday . |
| 26 | It is felt that this approach provides a general procedure having wide applications , instead of producing a very specific " tailor made " system that can only be applied to one company . |
| 27 | Life itself added the boldest brush strokes and when , finally , he , Jack Nicholson in person , confronts the world , there is the most awesome feeling of encountering a man of unquestionable charm , intelligence and friendship , yet who possesses an indefinable menace that can only be compared with some of the roles he has acted . |
| 28 | Night has its own kind of vision , as if daylight can blind one to certain truths that can only be perceived in the night . |
| 29 | He argues the company has tried to monopolise the market by convincing customers that its relational database management system is effectively the computer , making it appear that all other functions and tasks the user may want to perform are bound tightly to the database — requirements that can only be met by other Oracle products . |
| 30 | SUCCESS BREEDS SUCCESS AND INEVITABLY THE NEW 1991 OYSTER 68'S WILL BENEFIT FROM REFINEMENTS THAT CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED THROUGH DEVELOPMENT OF AN ESTABLISHED CLASS . |