Example sentences of "it can only [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can only be altered by a separate legal document called a ‘ codicil ’ . |
| 2 | Surely , one could argue , it can only be recognized by knowledge of some convention that U means z ; but in that case we can do away with talk of complex intentions and construct an account of communication based directly on the notion of conventional signal . |
| 3 | Carew Hunt , who was an authority at the Foreign Office on international communism and who wrote The Theory and Practice of Communism , argues that it can only be understood in religious terms . |
| 4 | Since all action is meaningful , it can only be understood by discovering the meanings which actors assign to their activities . |
| 5 | In most European languages today , dual is a lexical rather than a grammatical category ; it can only be indicated by the use of a numeral . |
| 6 | In other words , crime is a relative concept ; it can only be defined in relation to particular criminal laws which are effective at particular times and in particular societies . |
| 7 | For public transport flights it is a very small risk indeed , but it can only be regarded as a prudent action to take out personal life insurance before one voluntarily exposes oneself to the hazards of flight . |
| 8 | In scale ( if not in the overall quality of the collection ) , it can only be compared with John Pope-Hennessy 's great Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum of 1964 . |
| 9 | In everyday language , this means that the blood loss is so tiny , it can only be detected in the baby 's faeces via a special test . |
| 10 | The law , however , has never allowed a corporation to sue in respect of injury to its feelings on the basis that the injury might be suffered by its agents : as Lord Reid said in Lewis v. Daily Telegraph Ltd. [ 1964 ] A.C. 234 , 262 : ‘ A company can not be injured in its feelings , ’ and he added , ‘ it can only be injured in its pocket ’ but pecuniary damage to a corporation 's reputation was not in issue in that case . |
| 11 | As it can only be grown in Northern India among the foothills of the Himalayas , it is naturally always in great demand and once you savour the fragrance and taste of the rice for yourself you will understand why . |
| 12 | It can only be halted by cutting back on demand , thereby raising the unemployment rate to NAIRU . |
| 13 | It can only be accessed by the Manager or the Approver of the package , as specified from option 1.5.1 . |
| 14 | The same reasoning does not apply where the money is sent by a stranger , in which case it can only be accepted on the terms upon which it is sent . |
| 15 | But although it is such a widespread condition , endometriosis is often overlooked because it can only be diagnosed by a minor surgical procedure called laparoscopy ( the insertion of an illuminated instrument through a small incision in the abdomen ) and many suffers do have problems getting their GPs to refer them to a specialist who can do the these for them . |
| 16 | At the end of this period , it can only be overturned by a 75 per cent majority of all states attending a Treaty conference , which must include the present 26 voting members . |
| 17 | Rather , it can only be explained in terms of a massive decline in the quality of conditioning of children : ‘ We live in an era of permissiveness and thus have largely abandoned all attempts to inculcate standards , values and ‘ conscience ’ into our children ’ ( ibid. , p. 209 ) . |
| 18 | However , there is little doubt that this phenomenon is a most important one in our species and it can only be explained by assuming that , with the beginnings of hunting , neotenous changes suddenly became adaptive . |
| 19 | We need to bring it about , and it can only be done through teamwork . |
| 20 | With the verbal arts I think it can only be done for the moment by writing about nature . |
| 21 | It can only be done with conviction , with the sort of approach we used in 1969 with Ostpolitik . |
| 22 | There are no manuals for this struggle , for it can only be done by those who have pure hearts and sharp wits and the wisdom to know themselves . |
| 23 | Astonishingly , the fish is considered a delicacy in Japan where it is known as ‘ fugu ’ ; but because of its toxicity it can only be prepared by licensed chefs . |
| 24 | Château de Monte Cristo : It can only be visited on Saturdays and Sundays . |
| 25 | It is vicious because , as I have just argued , the external relation that constitutes the meaning of the mental content is not something that the subject himself can apprehend : it can only be constructed from a third-person perspective . |
| 26 | The release included statements that ‘ the discovery will be relatively easy to make into a usable technology for generating heat and power ’ ; and that ‘ this generation of heat continues over long periods and is so large that it can only be attributed to a nuclear process ’ . |
| 27 | The most difficult question is what to do with the beef mountain , created , in the words of one senior Commission official , by a process which ‘ takes the best beef , freezes it and so destroys it , with the result that it can only be sold to people who can not afford it . ’ |
| 28 | Although there is much to support this view of the origin of our modern idea of time , it is now realized that it can only be adhered to with some reservations , as we shall see . |
| 29 | Here we once more encounter the recognition that at a conceptual level the idea of history can not be taken further : rather it can only be addressed through a tension in the writing itself . |
| 30 | It can only be brought to an end on or after the date it runs out by a notice in a prescribed form , served by either the landlord or the tenant . |