Example sentences of "[indef pn] can only [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains . |
| 2 | One can only assume that your club committee have the welfare of both the fishery and your fish at heart which we should not knock . |
| 3 | One can only assume that the farm would suffer if this came about . |
| 4 | One can only assume that the purchasers of these lichen-grey accoutrements are members of EXIT , and that anyone attempting to rescue them would receive a bloody nose for their trouble . |
| 5 | One can only assume that the later , powerfully muscled and squatter ankylosaurs were more finely tuned to Earth 's gravity . |
| 6 | One can only assume that Clinton means well . |
| 7 | One can only assume that , at least for a while , they were able to survive on fully aquatic prey , such as fishes . |
| 8 | One can only assume that this puppy 's there so Olympic hosts Spain at least get a sniff at a medal . |
| 9 | Considering the wretchedness for which these floating prisons later became infamous it was an unhappy endorsement and one can only assume that his short-term view of a particular problem was allowed to obscure his longer term aims . |
| 10 | One can only assume that the Roman officials exceeded their authority and treated the royal family with disrespect . |
| 11 | One can only assume that some estates and businesses were sold to his wealthy followers . |
| 12 | One can only assume that , if the Bill had been introduced 70 or 80 years ago , the House would have been rather more crowded than today . |
| 13 | One can only assume that this is another example of the popular press indulging in unwarranted smears , this time against the Mission Impossible Party of Labour and the loyal supporters of Darlington FC . |
| 14 | One can only speculate that the GMC took the easy option and avoided testing the issue of clinical ecology head on because it feared a lengthy presentation of evidence on both sides , with the risk of an inconclusive result . |
| 15 | So one can only surmise that this rather authoritarian sign is aimed at people whose knuckles scrape the tarmac . |
| 16 | One can only surmise that this arrangement was for the programming convenience of the television station which covered the matches . |
| 17 | One can only presume that another , more competitive product was needed to counter the twin stem camming devices made by Hugh Banner and Faces . |
| 18 | Moser ( 1978 ) typically deals with the way information is broken down in interpretation from sentences and context into meaning , and one can only presume that she proposes a similar process for the reconstruction of the message in the second language . |
| 19 | To those who , for reasons of personal inhibition , administrative convenience or even from a feeling that " they " do n't need sex , are determined to " keep sex out of the Home " , one can only suggest that , ultimately , they are doomed to failure . |
| 20 | Not for the benefit of others , he never does anything for the benefit of others , one can only feel that he sees some advantage in releasing these British people . |
| 21 | One can only hope that tournament organisers come to recognise this and ensure that each event is staffed by the requisite number of officials . |
| 22 | One can only hope that Charles Titford had chosen a wife for her lasting qualities , and was not ‘ seduced and betrayed ’ by a daub of lipstick and a set of false teeth ; his marriage lasted — as , in a sense , marriages had to — and it bore fruit . |
| 23 | As for those who already receive High and do n't want another copy , or those ex- Mountain subscribers who just do n't want High , then one can only hope that a refund will be available . |
| 24 | One can only hope that we , as the panda 's worst enemy , can somehow right our wrongs and have finally learnt how much we have to lose . |
| 25 | One can only hope that in their visits to these firms over the last few days , Ray Noorda and Roel Pieper were sufficiently persuasive . |
| 26 | One can only hope that the £2 million restructured county ground at Bristol , where the old Victorian orphanages can give such a depressing aura to the ambience , will bring a corresponding resurgence in the fortunes of the team . |
| 27 | One can only hope that policy-makers ( and knee-jerk media pundits ) will take to the trouble to read beyond the title . |
| 28 | One can only hope that since these are resources being created by scholars who are interested in the dissemination and preservation of scholarship that their broad distribution and usage will enhance the likelihood of their preservation . |
| 29 | From the only letter which survives written by William Springett , one can only conclude that he was a rather unpleasant man . |
| 30 | One can only conclude that the story about the two-way radios is entirely false . |