Example sentences of "[pron] can only [vb infin] that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield has already enlarged upon the facts in the fine document which was produced in 1991 and I can only assume that they are correct . |
| 2 | I had n't even noticed the pickets and I can only presume that they had parted before me as I walked towards them as they still do today . |
| 3 | Much of this research has been done by TV advertising agencies and TV organizations themselves — so we can only assume that they have used it to shape their programs to appeal to that level of consciousness . |
| 4 | We can only hypothesize that they are typical . |
| 5 | Their notion of the essence of tragedy is " the struggle of the hero with fate " ( like Schelling ) or " the triumph of the moral world-order " ( like Schiller ) or " the discharge of the emotions " ( like Lessing and other neo-Aristotelians ) One can only suppose that they are incapable of the proper response to tragedy : that is , an aesthetic response to a work of art . |
| 6 | With the consumer industry and media boffins jamming up behind one another to support the unquestionably fine ideals of conservation , one can only wish that they would ask themselves as they prepare to board one more rolling bandwagon whether they really have anything to add to what has already been said . |
| 7 | Now John says he he can only imagine that they 're selecting them out . |