Example sentences of "[indef pn] can only [verb] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Moser ( 1978 ) typically deals with the way information is broken down in interpretation from sentences and context into meaning , and one can only presume that she proposes a similar process for the reconstruction of the message in the second language . |
| 2 | Not for the benefit of others , he never does anything for the benefit of others , one can only feel that he sees some advantage in releasing these British people . |
| 3 | One can only hope that we , as the panda 's worst enemy , can somehow right our wrongs and have finally learnt how much we have to lose . |
| 4 | One can only conclude that we are presented here with a deliberately unpoetical poem , an assault upon the cultivated reader 's exquisite sensibility . |
| 5 | From the only letter which survives written by William Springett , one can only conclude that he was a rather unpleasant man . |
| 6 | Their notion of the essence of tragedy is " the struggle of the hero with fate " ( like Schelling ) or " the triumph of the moral world-order " ( like Schiller ) or " the discharge of the emotions " ( like Lessing and other neo-Aristotelians ) One can only suppose that they are incapable of the proper response to tragedy : that is , an aesthetic response to a work of art . |
| 7 | One can only suppose that he preferred an effective ruler , however unpleasant , to an ineffective one , however much recommended by his personal qualities . |
| 8 | With the consumer industry and media boffins jamming up behind one another to support the unquestionably fine ideals of conservation , one can only wish that they would ask themselves as they prepare to board one more rolling bandwagon whether they really have anything to add to what has already been said . |