Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [noun sg] can only " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should not be felt that selling overseas is such a specialist and complex area that the uninitiated must for ever be excluded , or that membership can only be purchased at the expense of having very costly specialist services . |
| 2 | But we remember that that peace can only be maintained while we have our statesmen and perhaps even more important , our armed forces . |
| 3 | And what we 've got N here we 've selected as three and so we 've broken it up into three tuples because another rule in the method even though it can be broken is that each pixel can only go into one tuple . |
| 4 | Although this chapter can only look at national-level data , indicators of acute housing shortage are much more evident in certain areas such as London since the geographical distribution of housing does not match the availability of employment and the location of places in which people want to live , and regional differential price rises in houses exacerbate this problem . |
| 5 | Often the individual has done such a good job of ‘ forgetting ’ that this recall can only be achieved by means of regression . |
| 6 | Yet even these others ( researchers ) have to be given a direction and that direction can only come from some pre-existing knowledge in the field . |
| 7 | This stance is premised on the view that effective change depends on the genuine commitment of those required to implement it , and that commitment can only be achieved if those involved feel that they have control of the process . |
| 8 | Recall , the node has just a finite ( though large ) set of inputs si , and each input can only be 0 or 1 . |
| 9 | refers to as some contrived means such as a disagreement , ’ and if that duty can only be discharged by adjourning for rehearing by a bench of three then that is the just and proper course to take . |
| 10 | The movies were something very new and they soon developed a unique and distinctive position within the culture but that position can only be fully understood by reference to that context of nineteenth-century popular culture from which they emerged . |
| 11 | Certainly , but that displacement can only occur it if is also a struggle in and for representation — specifically , the representation of the repetition as re-presentation/inversion/displacement of the norm . |
| 12 | ‘ The face of nature under one broad and universal glare ( a cloudless midsummer day ) is not propitious to the feelings of an anxious spectator ; but this monotony can only be of short duration , because the declining sun … produces shadows ; these gradually expanding , uniting and finally on the setting of the sun … exhibit an almost infinite variety of form , of tone and of colour . ’ |
| 13 | There is tremendous customer loyalty involved in the fortunes of Champagne , but this loyalty can only survive if it has a two-way traffic . |
| 14 | Marxists often imply that Marxism simply involves the introduction of a historical framework — ‘ always historicize ! ’ — but this assumption can only be made , according to Althusser , because of ‘ the confusion that surrounds the concept of history ’ : |
| 15 | Since the important variable in population size is always the number of females rather than the number of males ( because one male can impregnate a large number of females but any female can only manage one pregnancy at a time ) , selective forces determine that the daytime gelada social structure is one in which a single dominant male forages with an attendant group of females and young . |
| 16 | The site code ( first digit of the organisation code ) is , in fact , part of the security of the system and determines whether or not an operator can access this record because each operator can only look at his/her own site 's records unless designated otherwise . |
| 17 | Rolt warns that this is not so because that spirit can only express itself in creative activities in which work and leisure are facets of one whole . |
| 18 | In so doing , any hint of attempted indoctrination , conditioning , manipulation , even influencing and persuading , is misplaced because this dimension can only be grasped in freedom , or it is not grasped at all . |
| 19 | It is important that the grounds of appeal are full because any omission can only be cured with the leave of the Court of Appeal . |
| 20 | Since any glass can only take a certain amount of fluid it represents an easy way of thinking of our body 's limitations to the amount of stress we can endure . |
| 21 | For the purchaser , it is important to consider whether as a result of the assignment the purchaser will be able to enforce the benefit of the contract directly against the supplier or whether such benefit can only be enforced with the co-operation of the vendor . |