Example sentences of "we can only say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | R. W. Dale accepted in 1862 that the sneers against Dissenters ' Gothic had some validity but , he added , ‘ we can only say that we are inexperienced hands at this work . |
| 2 | Many of our friends thought us too independent and adventurous to leave the shores of old England , and thus plunge into foreign countries not beneath Victoria 's sway , with no protecting relatives , but we can only say that we hope this will not be our last excursion of this kind . |
| 3 | We can only say that the bundle includes a perception , a thought , or an emotion as one of its parts . |
| 4 | However , she points out that ‘ from a linguistic point of view we can only say that speech and writing are different : we can not say that one is superior to the other ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 5 | However , if we had a matrix of order 100 , it would have 9900 off-diagonal elements , and we can only say that at each stage the sum of the squares of these elements would decrease by 1/4950 at least ; convergence to diagonal form is likely to take very much longer than for a small matrix . |
| 6 | However , in the absence of factual information , we can only say that there is no scientific evidence for the theory that carp can tell if the food is doing them good and will , therefore , prefer this to what has delightfully been described as a crap bait . |
| 7 | If any further immediate description of qualification is sought , we can only say that it introduces an element which the speaker does feel to be relevant to identification of a property or an entity , but subject to the constraint that the element so introduced is not actually equivalent to the item qualified . |