Example sentences of "can only [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe he can only perform on nice pitches ( at the beginning and end of a season ? ? ) and also remember what sort of service hed get from chappy ! ! |
| 2 | He 's a sound jumper already and can only improve with more experience . |
| 3 | Mr Jarvis says he 's delighted with the coursework pupils have produced on the film , but that the scheme can only continue for another couple of years . |
| 4 | Please remember local branches of NCT can only continue with voluntary support , please try to help ! |
| 5 | In S/Z Barthes is not suggesting that literary texts implicitly refer to some transcendent model : literary texts can only cross-refer to each other . |
| 6 | It will then follow that the following are gestural usages , though the sense of gesture is here , of course , vocal : ( 28 ) Harvey can only speak about this loud ( 29 ) Do n't do it now , but NOW ! |
| 7 | Until recently , there have been no established codec standards and one system can only speak to another if it is using the same compression-decompression algorithms . |
| 8 | But a Churchill of whom I can only speak with deep affection is Randolph 's son , Winston . |
| 9 | I can only speak from personal experience . |
| 10 | Now their country has become a prison which they can only leave with special permission — a situation which is guaranteed to fuel bitterness and resentment against the hardline regime . |
| 11 | The right-wing ideologue Frederich Hayek wrote : ‘ Obligations can only exist towards known and identifiable individuals . |
| 12 | This cake is so moist that you do n't really need a frosting , but it can only enhanced with cream cheese frosting ( see below ) . |
| 13 | Katie regrets she can only reply through this page . |
| 14 | Katie regrets she can only reply through this page . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the controlling or checking functions of the judicial branch can only consist in impartial application of the law , and where constitutional law places restrictions on legislative power , a duty to declare the law seems to imply a duty to declare when such restrictions have been violated , whether by the legislature or by anyone else . |
| 16 | But please remember that you can only contribute to one general PEP in any one tax year . |
| 17 | Botany can only benefit from this constant management and review of plant habitats . |
| 18 | The birdsong episodes in the third and fourth movements , projected in brilliant colours and vital rhythms on this occasion , can only benefit from concert-hall clarity , it is true . |
| 19 | In practice one can only talk about one thing at a time , and in this Chapter I shall risk a distorting simplicity by looking at questions of theory largely in isolation from institutional matrices and situations , and concentrating on British activities to the exclusion of the American ones that accompanied or preceded them . |
| 20 | I can only talk to other computers when they are within my range . |
| 21 | However , this is all rather analytical and intellectual ; and if we ourselves can only function on this rational level , our communication with horses will be no better than a tourist who needs a phrase book or dictionary in a foreign country . |
| 22 | We can only rely on each other , and we may as well get one thing straight here and now , Dr Blake . |
| 23 | Thus , the more mobile a dipolar group , the easier it is for it to follow the electric field up to higher frequencies , whereas the less mobile groups can only orient at lower frequencies . |
| 24 | Such joints can only move in one plane , but crustaceans deal with that limitation by grouping two or three on a limb , sometimes close together , each working in a different plane so that the end of the limb can move in a complete circle . |
| 25 | However , the cursor can only move in character-sized steps , the user can not move it directly to its destination . |
| 26 | As Fokine said : ‘ There can never be revolution in dance , only evolution , because the human body remains as it always has been , a living apparatus which can only move in certain well-defined ways . ’ |
| 27 | Closely hobbled with tightly drawn ropes they can only move by laborious hopping with arched backs … |
| 28 | The higher profile can only result in more visitors to the existing steam railway operation , and therefore to the Bodmin area as a whole , as well as present much needed employment opportunities . |
| 29 | I can only think of two adverts with Black children on . |
| 30 | I can only think of two things small enough and valuable enough : precious stones or drugs . ’ |