Example sentences of "[adj] can only [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the BFS is non-degenerate this can only mean that it is not efficient . |
| 2 | This can only mean that the University Press at Oxford kept the type of the second edition standing for over fifty years , or else had a large number of the second edition sheets left over and stored . |
| 3 | From the point of view of historians this can only mean that training must be broadened and will need to include a heavily element of information technology ( Greenstein 1993 ; Schürer 1993 ) . |
| 4 | Transmission will stop only after the XOFF character has been recognised and , since the Z88 has an input buffer , this can only happen after previously received characters have been processed . |
| 5 | Families can stay together through an extremely difficult period — but this can only happen if organisations like ACET are sufficiently funded . |
| 6 | A This can only happen if you do not cast off any stitches at the centre and sides of the neck . |
| 7 | Of course , this can only happen if you have been tested . |
| 8 | With given , this can only happen if rises . |
| 9 | While Sunday provides the flash-point for our worship , this can only happen when our Mondays to Saturdays are filled with praise for God as well . |
| 10 | This can only occur if the superior initially possesses the authority to delegate , ie a subordinate can not be given organisational authority to make decisions unless it would otherwise be the superior 's right to make those decisions . |
| 11 | Their immediate neighbours were Joshua Burn , a grocer , at no. 6 , and James Bradnam , butcher , at no. 5 ; one can only hope that Mr. Bradnam kept his slaughterhouse at a decent distance from his retail premises — the very special aromas of a butcher 's and a grocer 's shop must have been enough to discourage many a potential guest at Miscellaneous Repos , without the sound of dying cries from butchered beasts . |
| 12 | One can only say that in that case there are an awful lot of them — ‘ the pits of Angband seemed to hold store inexhaustible and ever-renewed ’ ( S , p. 157 ) . |
| 13 | The Attorney General can only act when he is asked to . |
| 14 | That can only mean that he found it , on the balance of probabilities , to have had a causative effect . |