Example sentences of "can only [be] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the end result of the degree of competition in a market can only be observed in profitability . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Concepts can only be defined in terms of other concepts , the meanings of which are given . |
| 4 | Now the major difference between these two categories is that with operational systems it is relatively easy for the user to define his requirements , in detail , in advance , for a specialist to program into the computer , whereas decision support systems , by their very nature , can only be defined in advance in global terms . |
| 5 | Whereas these measures constitute a second phase of liberalisation … it will be necessary to provide for further market liberalisation including the reduction of barriers to the supply of electricity by producers to customers ; whereas the precise details of this third phase , which should complete the internal electricity market , can only be defined in the light of experience … |
| 6 | ‘ Money can only be defined in terms of its functions . ’ |
| 7 | While discussions of what astronomers expect to find can only be expressed in terms of what they already know , those working on IRAS clearly hope that the satellite will make exciting new discoveries . |
| 8 | Since the weather , especially wind direction and wind speed , will markedly affect the behaviour of the radioactive cloud , estimates of the number of people exposed and the hazards can only be expressed in terms of probabilities . |
| 9 | None of their currencies are convertible , which means that Polish zloty or Hungarian florints have no value outside their country and can only be exchanged in their country , unlike sterling and dollars . |
| 10 | The lookup functions ( any , or all ) can only be performed in a processing procedure and the run procedure can only be done in a command procedure . |
| 11 | These must then be short-listed ; the detailed appraisal can only be done in practice on a limited number of options . |
| 12 | Hitting some of the soft spots in certain ways can cause really serious injury and can only be justified in extreme circumstances . |
| 13 | Accounting can only be studied in depth at Edinburgh as part of a joint honours degree : MA honours in Economics and Accounting ; BCom honours in Business Studies and Accounting ; or LLB honours ( Law and Accounting ) . |
| 14 | Tape files can only be accessed in this way ( figure 5.2 ) and therefore tapes can only be used for serial or sequential files . |
| 15 | Damages , as we will see , can only be sought in respect of wrongs recognized in private law ; declarations and injunctions can also be sought in respect of public law wrongs , that is wrongs as defined by the rules establishing the grounds of judicial review such as breach of natural justice . |
| 16 | It requires a good water starting and carve gybing ability and can only be sailed in a consistent Force 3/4+ . |
| 17 | HIV can only be transmitted in certain ways . |
| 18 | Indeed , here is a reminder that Christmas can only be understood in the light of later events , can only be discovered in all its wonderful freshness and life when we discover for ourselves that Jesus is the human face of God . |
| 19 | That is why the new partnerships can only be understood in terms of the contemporary concepts of organisational mission and vision . |
| 20 | The Australian Aboriginal religion with its emphasis on mysteries and degrees of initiation , its doctrines of pre-existence ad reincarnation and its belief in psychic powers , belongs to the Orient , not the West , and can only be understood in the light of the Orient . ’ |
| 21 | Interpretation must always be a matter of matching up what is new to what is familiar : ideas can only be understood in reference to established categories of thought . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Violent behaviour , in the most general sense , can only be understood in association with other behaviour within the same society . |
| 24 | Scale and measure can only be understood in context . |
| 25 | Showmanship was not just the accidental way in which British and American films were distributed , it was the essence of a whole phenomenon and the films of the English-language world can only be understood in this way . |
| 26 | The Indian presence in far flung outposts of the Empire , for example , from Malaysia to East Africa , can only be understood in this context , and it is important to note that a tradition of emigration from Jamaica had already developed in the nineteenth century , with 2,000 Jamaicans migrating to build railways in Panama , followed by well over 80,000 who went to work on the first attempt at constructing the Panama Canal in the 1880s . |
| 27 | As Graff argues , literacy can only be understood in context : ‘ it can be established neither arbitrarily nor uniformly for all members of the population ’ ( 1979 , p. 292 ) . |
| 28 | The remarkable role he played in Russia 's development can only be understood in terms of his total immersion — intellectual , emotional , moral — in Marxism . |
| 29 | Social theories thus argue that freedom requires an understanding of the self and our self-understanding or identity can only be understood in relation to the practices of our society . |
| 30 | The Restoration is , perhaps , all of these things , and can only be understood in terms of the background of those who participated , the pressures for economic , social and political change and the context of the Western threat . |