Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] can [verb] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first assumption is that each cell can accommodate only a single reach or segment of a stream , and the stream can therefore move through each cell only once . |
| 2 | This chapter can give only a general survey , intended to place the various methods in some perspective . |
| 3 | Although highly inventive and productive , this questionnaire can provide only explicit responses , rather than insight into actual practices , and , through processing , has created a normative characterization of the diverse social fractions involved , which are seen as an exemplars of a larger , statistically-based model of class . |
| 4 | This would have been so easy had they dug narrow trenches , the practice of the past , as this method can produce only scraps of unrelated evidence . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , given the failure to repeat the practice of a mid-decade Census as first carried out in 1966 , this source can provide only snapshots of the population at ten-year intervals , the most recent being 1981 . |
| 6 | To estimate the number of synonyms that occur during creation of a direct file using a one-pass load , let us examine the result of storing n records at random in N addresses , on the assumption that each record has to be stored at once and each address can hold only one record . |
| 7 | In the psychological sense , creation of any sort can occur only in the face of commensurate opposition , and a balance or reconciliation must be established between the two forces in order that the idea may become an actuality and be sustained . |