Example sentences of "can only be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a three-month time limit , which can only be extended for good reasons . |
| 2 | With the verbal arts I think it can only be done for the moment by writing about nature . |
| 3 | This investment can only be justified for systems where transactions have a huge value to that business . |
| 4 | It follows that , except in a case where either the common law or statute allows instant dismissal ( e.g. , for gross misconduct ) , a lecturer can only be dismissed for good cause after being given three months ' notice ( though the lecturer can terminate the agreement on three months ' notice without any reason being assigned ) . |
| 5 | Shaikh Saad urged Kuwaitis to overcome their political differences and promised , in what was widely believed to be a reference to the restoration of the 1962 constitution , that " the people of Kuwait can only be rewarded for their trust and loyalty by further trust " . |
| 6 | And at whatever time of the year you visit Edinburgh , there are the art galleries and museums — though the priceless and vulnerable collection of Turner water-colours can only be seen for a short period in winter . |
| 7 | The minimum and maximum periods for verification can only be determined for a particular installation . |
| 8 | HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify . |
| 9 | Access can only be denied for a maximum period of thirty-six hours . |
| 10 | That situation can only be tolerated for a while and following the Bank 's offer of 3% last June a series of consultation meetings with members overwhelmingly rejected the offer . |
| 11 | This is because the egg can only be fertilised for a short period of time following its release . |
| 12 | These include the different rates of production for speech , and writing , the degree of standardisation in writing as opposed to speech and the absence in writing of intonational features that can only be compensated for by sentence patterns which provide to a degree the emphases more readily available in speech . |
| 13 | It seems that human attention can only be sustained for a very limited time by any subject , even the prospects of its own destruction . |
| 14 | ‘ This represents a constant haemorrhage of money from the business which can only be sustained for so long , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Harden estimates that under current conditions productivity can only be maintained for between 10 and 75 years . |
| 16 | Some mistakes were due to genuine misunderstanding or fatigue ; others I am afraid can only be accounted for by criminal stupidity or irresponsibility . |
| 17 | Given that all cells with unstable chromosomal damage die on cell division , the increase can only be accounted for by reversion of CD45R0-positive lymphocytes to CD45RA-positive phenotype . |
| 18 | Preteceille and Terrail ( 1985 ) provide a recent elaboration of this position , taking into account the various approaches emerging from cultural anthropology , but they retain the classic Marxist conception that modern ‘ needs ’ can only be accounted for in terms of the search by capital for greater profits , and that consumption is always subservient to production interests ( e.g. 1985 : 37–81 ) . |
| 19 | The strange fact that the 1693 playbook leaves out the whole of the first 1692 scene ( the scene with the Duke , Egeus and the Lovers ) can only be accounted for , I believe , as a printing-house convenience , since it makes room for the inclusion at the end of Act I of the new episode of the Drunken Poets . |
| 20 | They can only be removed for misbehaviour upon an address by both Houses of Parliament . |
| 21 | The major stumbling block to the last of these is that solicitors can only be remunerated for advice under the green form scheme . |
| 22 | The company of some elderly relatives can only be enjoyed for a limited period at the end of a busy day , and long evenings — every evening — spent together can be a strain on all concerned in different ways . |
| 23 | Having been abseiled onto while soloing , had my runners pulled on by top-ropers and queued while large parties top-roped routes too hard for them , the BMC can only be congratulated for finally taking the matter in hand with an award for single pitch supervisors . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There is a vigorous defence of Coleman by Mayer : ‘ The energies of Coleman 's mind were more exclusively devoted to anything bearing upon the horse : and no wonder , for the College , constructed as it was and is , can only be adapted for the reception of that animal . |
| 26 | Many people are worried that it can only be used for the disable person . |
| 27 | But Tony Murrell , managing director of financial advisers Fraser Marr said : ‘ In most circumstances we would not recommend the use of educational trusts because these can only be used for school fees — nothing else . |
| 28 | The law should prohibit : the export of military , security and police equipment and training where these can reasonably be assumed to contribute to human rights abuses ; the manufacture of equipment which can only be used for torture or other cruel , inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners . |
| 29 | Because of the last row knitted before casting off has to be knitted at a looser tension , the linker can only be used for casting off all the stitches . |
| 30 | Microscopes can only be used for close work , telescopes for viewing objects from arm 's length distance to infinity . |