Example sentences of "and one can only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three culprits are depicted , Welsh Nationalists of otherwise impeccable character and one can only admire their somewhat misguided coup . |
| 2 | But Rennenkampf did not move and one can only conjecture why . |
| 3 | Their estates and assets were seized for the imperial treasury , and one can only speculate on the possible consequences . |
| 4 | Moser ( 1978 ) typically deals with the way information is broken down in interpretation from sentences and context into meaning , and one can only presume that she proposes a similar process for the reconstruction of the message in the second language . |
| 5 | As Bateson ( 1973 ) argues , the psychological frame appropriate in discussing play or games is more akin to a picture frame than to the logical frame of a mathematical set : what is outside the picture frame is irrelevant and one can only make judgements of comparison and contrast on matters within the frame . |
| 6 | Considering the wretchedness for which these floating prisons later became infamous it was an unhappy endorsement and one can only assume that his short-term view of a particular problem was allowed to obscure his longer term aims . |
| 7 | In stratigraphy One is always using one ruler to measure another and one can only call a deposit exceptional if we have something more " normal " with which one can make a comparison . |
| 8 | Until an hour or two ago I certainly did n't know that this problem had arisen , but the date April has been on the lips of my er Honourable Friend er and of the Noble Minister er I used to represent part of the City of Leeds and Honourable er a and Noble Lord you 'll have heard recently of behaviour at Elland Road Football Ground on the death of Sir Matt Busby and one can only wonder what sort of people er we 're dealing with , but many of them arrive at Leeds City Station on the day of a match and they come early and they have then to get their way to Elland Road and there are often real problems . |
| 9 | And one can only put the sudden drying-up of mounts for champion jockey Peter Scudamore down to whispers about him reaching an age when he 's beginning to wonder what 's on the other side of the racing fence . |