Example sentences of "one can only [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can not judge which of these views is preferable , because one can only infer the motives of the landowners from their actions ; we do not know if they were genuinely frightened by the memory of the revolt , or for how long any such fear persisted . |
| 2 | An intensely private man , one can only assume the attractions of the year-round treadmill are wearing thin . |
| 3 | One can only assume the Government had not read the steady stream of reports from both the Chief Inspector of Prisons and various prison boards of visitors during the 1980s . |
| 4 | One can not be certain about that ; one can only express an opinion as to the probability . |
| 5 | One said : ‘ By saying what she has said , one can only draw the conclusion that she turned to the Queen and the Duke because her marriage is in trouble and she is desperately unhappy . |
| 6 | One can only catechize a developmentally disabled person on the basis of the experience the person has . |
| 7 | One can only applaud the selfless dedication of our law-enforcers . |
| 8 | I am sure you will agree that it is in the best interests of the traditions of our society that there should be these circumspect checks and controls on what a public authority is permitted to do to interfere in the private lives of individuals , but at the same time it does make it difficult to act promptly and , in certain cases , and this must be one of them , one can only regret the outcome . ’ |
| 9 | … when highly stringent controls are imposed upon a study , the nature of the control tends to force the methods of presentation into such similar formats that one can only expect the " no significant differences " that are in fact found . |
| 10 | One can only lament the fact that as Russian recording quality emerges from the Dark Ages so their orchestras are struggling to maintain standards in the face of diminishing resources and emigration of their best players . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What on earth the referee had done to incur such mindless , moronic abuse , one can only hazard a guess . |
| 13 | One can only question the wisdom of a god who gave shelled creatures a sex life . |
| 14 | In an eminently Benjaminian vein , Kienholz has said that one can only understand a ‘ society by going through its junk stores and flea markets ’ . |
| 15 | My excuse is that one can only understand the unknown in terms of the known . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Moreover , the notion of corrigibility is itself suspect : strictly speaking , one can only correct an utterance when one knows what the speaker intended to say , and this is not the case with the specially constructed sentences used in semantic analysis . |
| 18 | Space limitations mean one can only select a little from what was a varied and highly successful programme , so I will concentrate on two areas . |
| 19 | One can only imagine the time , the patience , the dedication , the sheer labour . |
| 20 | One can only imagine the ways in which prime ministers break the bad news to Cabinet members they are dismissing . |
| 21 | Also known as a boogeyman or bogeyman , one can only have an effect if its victim pays heed to it . |