Example sentences of "can only be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Museums are at an advantage in making close examination of works in their own collections showing evidence about a picture , say , which can only be discovered by the newest scientific and technological methods . |
| 2 | Even taped interviews can only be read with caution , since they may have been edited , and the reader will not be told how . |
| 3 | ‘ This theoretically realistic and humorous novel is not unlike The Waste Land , the showpiece of Modernism and Impersonality ’ — which gives the impression that the realistic and humorous can only be deemed compatible with impersonality if they can also be deemed theoretical , and that the novel may not be very funny . |
| 4 | In such a setting , he believes , his work as a teacher can only be betrayed . |
| 5 | They could even have proven to be the negative experience of small ethnic enclaves defending themselves in hostile environments , but even this viewpoint can only be speculation . |
| 6 | There can only be description , he wrote , The Big Glass . |
| 7 | But death can only be fought with death , and life with life , he wrote . |
| 8 | The unusual juxtaposition of these two words can only be a subconscious association in the author 's mind with the well-known carol , The Twelve Days of Christmas whose repetitive chorus ends , ‘ And a partridge in a pear-tree . ’ |
| 9 | This kind of blow-over can only be avoided by manning the glider all the time or by tying it down with pickets , preferably with the wings level and all its control surfaces locked to prevent them flapping against their stops . |
| 10 | This can only be avoided by releasing the tow promptly before the situation develops . |
| 11 | Remember that if the glider is drifting towards an obstruction this can only be stopped by banking away from it and not by just applying the rudder . |
| 12 | Such incidents can only be avoided if the pilot has a more open mind about where he is going to land . |
| 13 | But landing safely in torrential rain , with a squally and unpredictable wind , can only be a matter of luck for the most skilled pilot . |
| 14 | So when the police declare ( as they do ) that they are non-political institution , this can only be a partial truth . |
| 15 | This ethnography is therefore an attempt to meet the dilemma , for the problem of revelation and betrayal continues to surface and can only be resolved , at best , by overcoming these subjective feelings and pursuing compromises ( Barnes 1981 : 2 ) . |
| 16 | The squad I ran became what can only be described as more ‘ disordered ’ and ‘ polluted ’ than had been the accepted norm , and we exhibited many verbal and nonverbal signals of this divergent nature . |
| 17 | In my view , accuracy can only be assured over very short periods of time , after which the refereeing panel must receive a proper rest . |
| 18 | Once it crosses the centre-line it can only be used immediately as a back fist . |
| 19 | Finally , it is as well to realise that the title of ‘ karate champion ’ can only be legitimately conferred by a national governing body recognised by the Martial Arts Commission . |
| 20 | ‘ But without the resumption of a regular supply of red iron , it can only be a matter of time before these tragic people die . ’ |
| 21 | It is vicious because , as I have just argued , the external relation that constitutes the meaning of the mental content is not something that the subject himself can apprehend : it can only be constructed from a third-person perspective . |
| 22 | The philosopher Mark Johnson has recently produced what can only be called a constructivist account of linguistic meaning and reasoning . |
| 23 | But this it can not be said , can only be shown forth as in the suicide letter where Stavrogin writes ‘ My desires are too weak ; they can not guide me . ’ |
| 24 | Other importable file formats can only be loaded from within the TableCurve environment , so suitable data need only be typed into an ascii file with a word processor or line editor to be used , and a path to any directory on the disk can be included if necessary . |
| 25 | The only effective response is ‘ I 'll send you a booklist ’ , for feminist criticism can only be defined by the multiplicity of critical practices engaged in by feminists . |
| 26 | Experienced teachers ought to be able to deflect the naïve foundationalism that insists that literary works ‘ can only be understood ’ in such-and-such a cultural , social , or ideological context , by contextualizing the proponent 's own discourse . |
| 27 | AMP would like 5 per cent of the life insurance market in Britain , which experts feel can only be achieved through acquisition . |
| 28 | It can only be done with conviction , with the sort of approach we used in 1969 with Ostpolitik . |
| 29 | Critics say that the real battle against drugs can only be won by international co-ordination and the development of a long-term growth strategy . |
| 30 | But their details are often still controversial and their meaning can only be appreciated by placing them in context . |