Example sentences of "can only be [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Socially , at this point the significance of design as such is more or less lost : significance can only been seen in terms of problems solved or products produced . |
| 2 | However , the end result of the degree of competition in a market can only be observed in profitability . |
| 3 | Concepts can only be defined in terms of other concepts , the meanings of which are given . |
| 4 | ‘ Money can only be defined in terms of its functions . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | These must then be short-listed ; the detailed appraisal can only be done in practice on a limited number of options . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Violent behaviour , in the most general sense , can only be understood in association with other behaviour within the same society . |
| 14 | That is why the new partnerships can only be understood in terms of the contemporary concepts of organisational mission and vision . |
| 15 | The remarkable role he played in Russia 's development can only be understood in terms of his total immersion — intellectual , emotional , moral — in Marxism . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The impact of this arrival of South Asian calico can only be understood in terms of those wider social changes already referred to . |
| 18 | Russia 's response to the crisis of 1914 can only be understood in terms of the nature of the tsarist regime and of the pressures upon it . |
| 19 | The federal pattern of democratic revolution and the Centralista tradition can only be understood in terms of this municipal patriotism . |
| 20 | Such Marxists are arguing that whatever people may believe subjectively about their own freedom to make choices which will shape their society , the true locus of change can only be understood in terms of the objective laws of motion and requirements of the capitalist mode of production . |
| 21 | Pizzorno argues that the modern underdevelopment of the south of Italy can only be understood in terms of the historical relationship of area to the locations of power and productivity by which it has been dominated and to which it has been marginal . |
| 22 | In organisational theory Pfeffer ( 1981 ) argues that power is a relational concept that can only be understood in terms of interactions between individuals and groups . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Scale and measure can only be understood in context . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Rather , it can only be explained in terms of a massive decline in the quality of conditioning of children : ‘ We live in an era of permissiveness and thus have largely abandoned all attempts to inculcate standards , values and ‘ conscience ’ into our children ’ ( ibid. , p. 209 ) . |
| 27 | The power of some pressure groups can only be explained in terms of what may be called an ‘ insider ’ status within the policy-making system . |
| 28 | They are to be contrasted with empty words , that is structural words , — those that belong to closed systems and can only be explained in terms of their uses in sentences . |
| 29 | Please note that tickets for Event 16 can only be obtained in advance from York Music Centre . |
| 30 | Hypotheses which are worth testing can only be developed in areas about which a good deal is known , i.e. where a great deal of empirical field data has already been collected . |