Example sentences of "there can only [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can only be description , he wrote , The Big Glass . |
| 2 | There can only be one Creator , one God who made the earth and maintains it under divine control . |
| 3 | There can only be one supreme being responsible for managing the world . |
| 4 | For Hannah there can only be one important base — Low Birk Hatt Farm , Baldersdale . |
| 5 | In such an existential situation there can only be one desperate outcome : |
| 6 | Sadly , there can only be one winner … and that is M J Gill of Manchester , who correctly spotted that twinkly-eyed Albums Ed Big Stuarty Bailie is a son of the Emerald Isle . |
| 7 | SIMON BONNEY : There Can Only Be One |
| 8 | ‘ There Can Only Be One ’ is an epic and yet , spookily , restrained pop song , the sort of record Marc Almond would make if he did n't like shouting so much . |
| 9 | Of course there can only be one chieftain , so defeated rivals must either accept his supremacy or leave the tribe altogether and set up a new one of their own . |
| 10 | Evidently , there can only be one correct word in a given sentence position , and this result may reflect the effective exploitation of this constraint . |
| 11 | Conditions ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) alone clearly are not enough and there can only be a limited number of ways of thinking of conditions which give the same results as ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) . |
| 12 | The provision as to three months ' notice has to be read with the limitation that there can only be dismissal for good cause . |
| 13 | ‘ Ranulf , if the Prince knew before the porter arrived here , there can only be one explanation . |
| 14 | There can only be one outcome , the trade unions will retain their involvement in the Labour Party , I 've been saying this all along , as have others , during the course of the last year , the trouble is , nobody listens . |
| 15 | We said to both of them , look you are quasi-government organizations who are sponsored by government departments there can only be one technical view . |
| 16 | You wo n't have a whole-school group in a dissipating school … there ca n't be any organizational impact , there can only be individual impact . |
| 17 | If we carry on the way we are there can only be one outcome and that is success . |
| 18 | From the moment that Blanche decides to persuade Stella to leave the ‘ brute ’ , it is possible to see that there can only be a tragic ending . |
| 19 | However , since a task causes a state transition there can only be one task allocated to a state . |
| 20 | Today , rambutans ( Nephelium lappaceum , Sapindaceae ) are distributed this way , growing up around deserted encampments of forest people in the Malay Peninsula , and several other fruits gathered there can only be swallowed as the flesh is either difficult to remove or the seeds are too fiddly to extract ( as in blackberries , blackcurrants and tomatoes in modern society sewage farms raise good tomato plants ) : for example the mata-kuching ( Dimocarpus longan ) and the rambai ( Baccaurea motleyana , Euphorbiaceae ) . |
| 21 | I know the other ladies will understand — but for our leading lady there can only be orchids ! ’ |
| 22 | It seems that this tax charge does not actually cancel out the potential tax charge referred to above but it is difficult to see how there can be double tax problems because there can only be a charge on monies remitted to the United Kingdom and this can not extend beyond the amounts actually available to be so remitted . |
| 23 | ‘ There can only be one king of the castle , as far as male Leos are concerned , ’ Julie had continued . |
| 24 | Secondly , and most importantly , there can only be one leader in this group , and I 'm it . |
| 25 | The gap was far too narrow and he was travelling much too fast , and there can only be one reason for him making such a damnfool , cavalier manoeuvre — he was n't concentrating . |
| 26 | But providing the rain keeps away there can only be one winner the mighty Zafonic . |
| 27 | There can only be one answer to this — an independent financial adviser who ( a ) is a specialist in pensions , and ( b ) offers the option of paying by way of a fee as well as by commission . |
| 28 | There can only be one representative of our country . |
| 29 | There can only be one target , it 's the pensioners . |