Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] can only " in BNC.
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| 1 | AJR procedure incorporates certain procedural protections for public bodies and the rule that a claimant asserting public law interests can only use AJR procedure puts him at a disadvantage which is justifiable only on the assumption that public law interests do not matter as much as private law rights and , therefore , do not deserve as much legal protection . |
| 2 | There are no easy answers at High Rocks , but privately negotiated fee deals can only serve to make the right solution even harder to find . |
| 3 | Estimates of this kind although more refined than the raw trade statistics can only be tentative . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In this situation contact can only be regulated by a s8 order . |
| 6 | On the positive side , perhaps a renewed interest in old school rap can only be a good thing . |
| 7 | The ARC/INFO programmer 's guide ( Aronson 1985 ) give some clues as to what to expect , but the actual file structure can only be determined by inspection . |
| 8 | Perhaps , also , civil service culture can only be truly changed by changing the civil service itself , not through retraining and re-educating existing officials , but by wholesale — albeit inevitably long-term — changes in personnel through new recruitment practices and procedures . |
| 9 | Now , in a very real sense socialisation can only be properly understood as an aspect of all activity within human societies . |
| 10 | Because flat-rate unemployment benefit can only be drawn for a maximum of a year , a large number of today 's unemployed find themselves having to draw means-tested assistance . |
| 11 | Personal injury practitioners can only make any sort of profit at all if they achieve a realistic cash flow and this can only be obtained by ensuring that payment is made as soon as the case is settled . |
| 12 | Such task analysis can only be carried out to some cost-effective limit beyond which the skilled operator must be trusted to get things right by applying his broad expertise . |
| 13 | Medium security levels can enter and delete data and low security levels can only view data . |
| 14 | Since stray cat populations can only be dosed with the birth pill via their food , there is always the chance that certain cats will avoid the treated meals provided for them and scavenge or catch prey for themselves . |
| 15 | Other importable file formats can only be loaded from within the TableCurve environment , so suitable data need only be typed into an ascii file with a word processor or line editor to be used , and a path to any directory on the disk can be included if necessary . |
| 16 | Profits had shot up from £6m to £27m and the share price had risen — on a trajectory a jumbo jet pilot can only dream of — from 170p at the beginning of 1991 to 899p by the year-end . |
| 17 | This combination of good marksmanship with poor reasoning ability can only be described as alarming — in particular when so many military duties may be concerned with public order , as in Northern Ireland , where rules of engagement require the soldier to make decisions on the basis of evidence that is often ambiguous . |
| 18 | Quite why some of the leading golfers in the world started to behave like 18 handicap amateurs can only be attributed to the special pressures which the Ryder Cup produces . |
| 19 | In such a climate of change the 29th Edition Rules for Automatic Sprinkler Systems can only indicate that required sprinkler protection for broad categories of commodity . |
| 20 | Everyone has customers , even though these are internal to the organisation , and many quality defects can only be dealt with on an inter-departmental basis . |
| 21 | As any maltster will tell you — hi-tech equipment is a necessity for efficient malt production , but the finest quality malt can only be produced with the addition of the combined knowledge and expertise of those involved in its production . |
| 22 | Taking these two points into consideration leads us to the conclusion that meaningful chain dimensions can only be values averaged over the many conformations assumed . |
| 23 | Obviously , the hoped-for benefits such as reduced waiting lists can only be brought about by an absolute increase in available services or by a transfer of resources from other services . |
| 24 | The cashier holds the other key and the safe deposit box can only be opened if both locks are operated at the same time . |
| 25 | As information transmitted in binary form is so much faster than analogue signals , the full benefits of computer-based communication systems can only be gained when nations convert their existing telecommunications networks to digital operation . |
| 26 | There are those where mission critical business decisions can only be made based on absolute up to date information . |
| 27 | So , given the set-up of the model , in particular given that in any one period people can only buy or sell in the island on which they are located , different equilibrium prices can be established for the same good . |
| 28 | We prize our independence as much as ever , although we accept that in the run-up to the twenty-first century independence can only be relative : international interdependence is a Line qua non . |
| 29 | Melting all the present-day sea ice can only increase global radiative forcing by . |
| 30 | This problem arises because each grid cell can only have a single attribute value and because the chosen grid dimensions are too large to resolve the spatial detail required . |