Example sentences of "[that] can only [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Night has its own kind of vision , as if daylight can blind one to certain truths that can only be perceived in the night . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In all , it 's a price/performance combination that can only be achieved by buying direct — from CompuAdd . |
| 7 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 8 | In organisational theory Pfeffer ( 1981 ) argues that power is a relational concept that can only be understood in terms of interactions between individuals and groups . |
| 9 | Paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) provide a power to rectify that can only be exercised by the court . |
| 10 | New technology affecting the storage and dissemination of information will change the collection in ways that can only be guessed at . |
| 11 | By strict standards , therefore , the memoirs must contain much that can only be regarded as fiction . |
| 12 | The truth with which faith deals is of the highest and most ultimate kind , and faith itself is a ‘ leap ’ and a ‘ passion ’ , a leap into the truth that can only be grasped on the road of authentic commitment . |
| 13 | ‘ A national ambition that can only be realised at the European level . ’ |
| 14 | The contemporary romance novel is a self-perpetuating genre , both textually and in its modes of marketing , offering in its texts a perpetually unfulfilled ‘ Desire ’ that can only be answered through the purchase of a new volume . |
| 15 | However , there are often delaying factors that can only be substantiated by a thorough analysis of the records referred to in Table 7.2 . |
| 16 | While these may take most of the burden from the public relations officer 's shoulders , there is still work that can only be done by you . |
| 17 | These include the different rates of production for speech , and writing , the degree of standardisation in writing as opposed to speech and the absence in writing of intonational features that can only be compensated for by sentence patterns which provide to a degree the emphases more readily available in speech . |
| 18 | The discovery that varied aspects of a writer 's style point towards a common literary purpose is something that can only be demonstrated through the details of stylistic analysis . |
| 19 | Similarly , bathrooms that can only be reached through a bedroom are not a good idea if you have guests in the bedroom which does not adjoin the bathroom . |
| 20 | Thus , a conveyance of land may include a cellar below ground level that can only be reached from an adjoining shop ( ibid ) . |
| 21 | During autumn he puts out his invisible lines that can only be seen under the microscope of the sun beams , and he is carried into the deep ocean , a balloonist travelling to an unknown destination . |
| 22 | These advantages may relate to factor supplies , technology spillovers from domestic firms that can only be captured by locating there , the need to jump over trade barriers , or simply the opportunity to exploit a potential monopoly position . |
| 23 | For example , in Thai the morpheme khrab is a polite particle that can only be used by male speakers , the corresponding form reserved for female speakers being kha ( Haas , 1964 ) . |
| 24 | Once you own a detector , however , you can start to take an interest in invisible losses … losses that can only be found by detector owners . |
| 25 | But the fact that God has given principles and priorities helps us to cut through this veil of emotional haze with certainty that can only be attained from the Master 's plan . |
| 26 | Modern science is critically dependent on high-performance computing ; studies of the world 's changing climate , structural engineering , and medical imaging simply could not have progressed to their present state without access to the sort of computing power that can only be provided by parallel machines . |
| 27 | smoky thought-mutterings drifting up to add to those fume-clouds of the knowledge that can only be furthered by its own mistakes . |
| 28 | Or , alternatively , a mother encounters a persistent feeding difficulty in the baby , fails to resolve it , and as a result loses her initial equanimity and becomes tense and fearful with him ( and if that , in turn , then makes the feeding problem even worse one is left with a vicious spiral of the kind that can only be resolved by some drastic outside intervention and which clearly shows , moreover , the difficulty of disentangling cause and effect when confronted by the end result ) . |
| 29 | I want to say very generally that we have to avoid thinking about that sort of clash as an impossible dilemma , a blank , unintelligible conflict , a tribal row between unrelated moral principles each espoused by a separate group — a dispute that can only be settled by tribal warfare . |
| 30 | It is a skill that can only be learned through experiences with a specific complex of machinery and , in contrast to that of traditional skilled work , it is specific to a particular enterprise . |