Example sentences of "can only [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a disaster can only arise from the inherent structure and culture of the company . |
| 2 | Thus the cost of a path can not increase , it can only stay at the same level or decrease , and the algorithm is admissible . |
| 3 | If the lounge reflects the proprietor 's domestic preferences , one can only speculate about the Georgian town house style hotel whose lounge boasts two public telephones with wall mounted perspex hoods , a cigarette machine and , on one occasion , dead arrangements of pinks and carnations on each coffee table . |
| 4 | Their estates and assets were seized for the imperial treasury , and one can only speculate on the possible consequences . |
| 5 | In the absence of systematic research on these questions one can only speculate on the likely consequences of changes in employment practices . |
| 6 | We can only speculate on the functional consequences of these changes at present because differences in the transcriptional properties of CREB homodimers , ATF1 homodimers and CREB/ATF1 heterodimers are far from clear . |
| 7 | Such ‘ town plans ’ are eminently satisfying but also dangerously deceptive , because in the absence of excavation , they can only hint at the potential complexity involved . |
| 8 | This spirit can only travel in a straight line , so when it slides down the roof in the hope of gaining entry to a house , it will be swept up in the air again by the curving gable . |
| 9 | The decomposition of observed unemployment rates into their classical and Keynesian parts can only serve as a first step in the formulation of macroeconomic policy since such an exercise must take place within a broader framework which encompasses concepts such as short- and long-run Phillips curves , the natural unemployment rate , and NAIRU . |
| 10 | Like the absence of useful maritime peripheries , however , they can only serve as a secondary reinforcement of pre-existing leanings to political centralism . |
| 11 | The Party will always remember that [ deployment of the PPA in civil unrest ] can only result from an extraordinary situation , jeopardizing … the foundations of the socialist system , a situation where all the paths of political action have been exhausted , where an obvious enemy has raised his hand against the achievements of the working people . |
| 12 | Sadly , of course , it has n't proved to be the entire answer because the original FOND resource can only cope with the four basic stylistic variations ; Plain , Italic , Bold and Bold Italic . |
| 13 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 14 | However , ‘ FAST CASH ’ withdrawals and all transactions on machines which are not ABBEYLINK machines can only relate to the Primary Account , and no other account can be selected for these particular transactions . |
| 15 | The finance director of one of the companies says he believes that the productivity increases attributable to IT are coming to an end : ‘ Auditors are getting more productive — but it can only go to a certain level . ’ |
| 16 | You can only go in the future direction in time , but you can go at a bit of an angle to it . |
| 17 | The association between leanness and fertility has been extensively explored by Frisch , who has suggested that menstruation and ovulatory cycles can only start above a certain threshold ratio of lean body mass to fat mass . |
| 18 | Now Rebecca 's family can only hope for a suitable kidney from an accident victim . |
| 19 | In all of this , the Library recognises that it can only advance in the closest possible cooperation and consultation with those organisations , most notably university departments and university libraries , which have already set in place the academic and technological infrastructure to which we hope to make an increasingly useful contribution . |
| 20 | True , it is an altruism grounded in selfishness , but that need not bother us ( it can only lead into the usual teenage casuistry about altruism always being ultimately selfish ) . |
| 21 | This can only lead to a partial picture where lenders try to succeed within their own parameters , without all the facts on the likely borrower . |
| 22 | ‘ Halliwell said that these sexual experiments can only lead to a dead end . |
| 23 | The arrangements proposed in Maastricht can only lead to the eventual fusion of the various pillars . |
| 24 | Each outer cave or vault can only entered through a small version of the iris-like Vadinamian Valve . |
| 25 | As a body corporate , a building society can only act through the human agency of its officers and employees . |
| 26 | Like a man in a dream , that must for his life run like a deer , and can only crawl like a broken worm . |
| 27 | It can only happen after a disastrous split in the majority party or when no party has a majority . |
| 28 | Small bits and pieces straying under the glass , or fingerprints on the glass , can only detract from the finished result , no matter how attractive it is . |
| 29 | A line erased and recut seems to have described him originally as tyrant of Gel a , and the political events reflected in this claim and its cancellation can only belong to the seventies . |
| 30 | Though what will happen in the next century up to 2025 , as table 5.4 suggests , we can only calculate with a large margin of error . |