Example sentences of "and can only [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To present such fantasy in your article as though it were fact is unworthy of your newspaper and can only be regarded as malicious mischief-making . |
| 2 | Like copepods , these 3–4mm brownish worms thrive in overfed aquaria , and can only be eradicated by syphoning them out at every opportunity , which may take months . |
| 3 | Hitting some of the soft spots in certain ways can cause really serious injury and can only be justified in extreme circumstances . |
| 4 | The struggle to end capitalist wage labour can not be helped by women opting out and can only be undertaken by a working class that is less divided by male domination than the present one . |
| 5 | Dating a rug from its weave and design requires extensive specialist knowledge and can only be undertaken by an expert . |
| 6 | Stenopus hispidus sometimes called the Boxing Shrimp , is far more aggressive towards its own kind and can only be kept as a single specimen or a matched pair . |
| 7 | Claiming that the landscape was created by farmers and can only be maintained by farming , she added : ‘ Our policies for agricultural support and the environment need to work together , to the mutual benefit of our farming industry and of our countryside . ’ |
| 8 | Usually it is covert and can only be diagnosed by specifically measuring blood lipids . |
| 9 | On the contrary , it must be clear , a priori that in an antagonistic society , a society based on productive and social anarchy , there can not be an uninterrupted development of the forces , for in such a society the laws of equilibrium are and can only be realized by means of continual or recurrent disruptions of the equilibrium . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Updates to modules and module ranges are achieved by using option 3.5.0 , Relate Modules to SPR , and can only be peformed by the current holder . |
| 12 | When it is demolished it is lost for good and can only be duplicated at considerable expense . |
| 13 | Suppose , next , that a catastrophe , which will wipe out life on this planet , threatens , and can only be prevented by an expenditure the same as would be needed for that capsule for the slug . |
| 14 | It requires a good water starting and carve gybing ability and can only be sailed in a consistent Force 3/4+ . |
| 15 | The subject of tax reform is a topic in its own right and can only be touched upon here . |
| 16 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 17 | It can not be unlocked , and can only be damaged by magical weapons or spells ( T 6 , D 24 due to powerful enchantments ) . |
| 18 | Though consent , if valid , has normative consequences , and can only be explained through its purported normative consequences , it does not bear its normativeness on its face . |
| 19 | They are to be contrasted with empty words , that is structural words , — those that belong to closed systems and can only be explained in terms of their uses in sentences . |
| 20 | It has a tendency to lose its shape and can only be spun into relatively thick strands . |
| 21 | Remember that cases which have apparently recovered , can remain as carriers for a considerable time and can only be detected by laboratory isolation from nasal swabs . |
| 22 | None of their currencies are convertible , which means that Polish zloty or Hungarian florints have no value outside their country and can only be exchanged in their country , unlike sterling and dollars . |
| 23 | The wave , like the mele , like all music , like the text , is a mental event , since it is never wholly present in any one instant and can only be grasped as a formal pattern existing through time . |
| 24 | Again , Fry 's study of difficulties confronted by disabled people in voting in the 1987 general election ( Fry , 1987 ) indicates a series of problems in the exercise of democratic rights which are to large degree sui generis , and can only be understood through specific knowledge of disability . |
| 25 | The Australian Aboriginal religion with its emphasis on mysteries and degrees of initiation , its doctrines of pre-existence ad reincarnation and its belief in psychic powers , belongs to the Orient , not the West , and can only be understood in the light of the Orient . ’ |
| 26 | The Restoration is , perhaps , all of these things , and can only be understood in terms of the background of those who participated , the pressures for economic , social and political change and the context of the Western threat . |
| 27 | Against the historical unification we would stress that sex is relational , is shaped in social interaction , and can only be understood in its historical context , in terms of the cultural meanings assigned to it , and in terms of the internal , subjective meanings of the sexed individuals that emerge . |
| 28 | But he has submitted that non-litigation costs are not subject to taxation and can only be quantified by the taking of an account , with or without supplementary inquiries . |
| 29 | Thus administrative receivers must be qualified to act as insolvency practitioners and can only be removed from office by the court . |
| 30 | It is not suitable for domestic purposes and can only be used for power generation . |