Example sentences of "[coord] this [modal v] only be done " in BNC.
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| 1 | So at the end of the day it must be for the courts to decide how to classify particular functions , and this can only be done on the basis of some normative judgment about the desirable scope of judicial review . |
| 2 | Le Grand , for example , insists that for egalitarian policies to succeed , ‘ it is necessary to reduce the hold of the ideology of inequality on people 's values and beliefs and this can only be done by challenging the factual underpinnings of that ideology . ’ |
| 3 | But , in the contemporary study of an institution such as a factory or a college , it may be necessary to analyse hundreds of questionnaires or interview schedules , and this will only be done successfully and without trouble if the research worker knew in advance what was wanted and how the data could be analysed before it was collected . |
| 4 | ‘ Prudence ’ , claimed Sam Smiles , ‘ requires that we pitch our scale of living a degree below our means , rather than up to them : but this can only be done by carrying out faithfully a plan of living by which both ends may be made to meet . ’ |
| 5 | But this can only be done at the international airport and with the original exchange receipts . |
| 6 | But this can only be done at the price of a restriction of body size . |
| 7 | The new cereals were capable of doubling or trebling the produce of a cultivated hectare but this could only be done by investing in a package of changes . |