Example sentences of "they can only be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , they can only be assessed by reference to actuality . |
| 2 | There will always be imperfections and they can only be overcome by personal relationships . |
| 3 | They can only be overcome by action on an international scale , rather than by castigating one or two countries . |
| 4 | Where the land meets the sea there are hundreds of beaches and coves , some so secluded that they can only be reached by boat . |
| 5 | You 're always seeing inexplicable bumps , they can only be caused by people nodding off |
| 6 | On Iceland , one might , if one were lucky , also find small quantities of andesitic and rhyolitic rocks being erupted but they are scarce , since they can only be formed by skimming off silica-rich material from a large volume of basaltic magma , in the same way as cream is skimmed off the top of milk . |
| 7 | Thus he says that many varieties of domesticated species , fancy pigeon breeds for example , are monstrous not adaptive ; they can only be maintained by artificial feeding and breeding , including selective breeding ; they are quite unlike wild , natural and adaptive varieties and even more unlike wild species . |
| 8 | They follow roughly parallel courses down from high mountains to the coastal plain ; all have lochs serving as reservoirs ; all have roads , public or private , that extend far into the interior and there end ; none of them is accessible by road from the west and they can only be approached by wheeled traffic coming from the east . |
| 9 | Either the physical limits of the item are wide , so that the design and production of the mating parts become difficult and expensive , or they are narrow so that they can only be produced by expensive processes . |
| 10 | Either the physical limits of the item are wide , so that the design and production of the mating parts become difficult and expensive , or they are narrow so that they can only be produced by expensive processes . |
| 11 | They can only be solved by a commitment , built into the timetable for the length of the project to give participating teachers the time to view the video and meet their friendly critic . |
| 12 | Once broken , they can only be removed by cutting through the fingerboard , a painful and delicate process which I for one would not want to see . |