Example sentences of "can only [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , there is no real solution to these difficulties and again we can only leave it to the reader to arrive at his or her own conclusion on the basis of the material presented . |
| 2 | The county council has not got the power to ban fox hunting in total it can only ban it on the land which it owns or controls and that 's what that motion seeks to do today . |
| 3 | Because we can only understand it at a level of artificial instrumentation , and mathematical calculations on paper , we find it hard to imagine a little animal doing it in its head . |
| 4 | They can only use it as a source of energy after alcohol has been processed by the liver . |
| 5 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |
| 6 | I er I can only write it from a Jewish perspective , it 's the perspective I stand at , but it seems to me that beyond a few superficialities there is no such thing as Jewish spiritual truth any more than there is Jewish mathematical truth . |
| 7 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 8 | Allen Watkins used to say that there was a core of truth hidden in the heart of all folk tales and legends if we can only find it amongst the accumulations which have occurred over time : the difficulty arose in finding out what it was — of winnowing the wheat from the chaff . |