Example sentences of "[adj] and can only [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 2 | The bulk of this type of enclosure was carried out by formal acts of parliament , but there was much private enclosure , mo.st of which is unrecorded and can only be dated by contemporary maps . |
| 3 | For iron this reaction is written : Iron usually exists in the bivalent ferrous state ( Fe 2 + ; ) in most rock-forming minerals , but it can be converted by oxidation to the trivalent ferric form ( Fe 3 + ; ) with the effect that the neutral charge of the crystal structure is upset and can only be regained by the loss of other cations . |
| 4 | Usually it is covert and can only be diagnosed by specifically measuring blood lipids . |
| 5 | Following the inability to trace records of certain interviews and the fact that other important papers were not presented at previous hearings of this matter , the fire in the building where the former South Midland Area 's archives were temporarily housed pending re-organisation was particularly unfortunate and can only be thought of as an unhappy coincidence . |
| 6 | Similarly , hiding discrimination against disabled people , population ’ quality control ’ thinking implies that many kinds of disability are inevitable and can only be eliminated by genetic control . |
| 7 | In the case when a clone length is less than that of a repetitive element ( or a total length of a group of adjacent repeats ) , a break in the contig is inevitable and can only be closed by using longer clones which can bridge the repeat . |
| 8 | When it is demolished it is lost for good and can only be duplicated at considerable expense . |
| 9 | It is because the attender is unobservable and can only be inferred from retrospective description that mental experiencing includes a strong tendency to dichotomize the ‘ I ’ ( attender ) from the ‘ me ’ ( self-description ) ; a dichotomy that parallels that between ‘ I ’ and my body . |
| 10 | In calling for an ‘ unprecedented management ’ initiative to offset the effects of reduced staffing levels , Derek Dean did not mince words : ‘ It is not an over statement to say that a crisis is imminent and can only be averted if action is taken by all concerned as a matter of extreme urgency . ’ |
| 11 | It is not an overstatement to say that a crisis is imminent and can only be averted if action is taken by all concerned as a matter of extreme urgency . |
| 12 | Levinas opposes freedom , based on self-interest , to justice , which respects the alterity of the other and can only be proposed through the asymmetry of dialogue . |