Example sentences of "that can only be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern science is critically dependent on high-performance computing ; studies of the world 's changing climate , structural engineering , and medical imaging simply could not have progressed to their present state without access to the sort of computing power that can only be provided by parallel machines . |
| 2 | You find yourself doing the strangest things that can only be because you are no longer capable of doing the simplest tasks . |
| 3 | Modern refining techniques mean that for every barrel of crude oil refined , there will be a split between diesel and petrol fuels that can only be varied a small amount . |
| 4 | Life itself added the boldest brush strokes and when , finally , he , Jack Nicholson in person , confronts the world , there is the most awesome feeling of encountering a man of unquestionable charm , intelligence and friendship , yet who possesses an indefinable menace that can only be compared with some of the roles he has acted . |
| 5 | Indeed , the idea of these schools incorporates a division within the secondary curriculum that can only be harmful in the end , and will fail to meet the needs of pupils and of society . |
| 6 | I want to say very generally that we have to avoid thinking about that sort of clash as an impossible dilemma , a blank , unintelligible conflict , a tribal row between unrelated moral principles each espoused by a separate group — a dispute that can only be settled by tribal warfare . |
| 7 | During autumn he puts out his invisible lines that can only be seen under the microscope of the sun beams , and he is carried into the deep ocean , a balloonist travelling to an unknown destination . |
| 8 | On another page he included a picture of Mary that can only be described as erotic . |
| 9 | But the fact that God has given principles and priorities helps us to cut through this veil of emotional haze with certainty that can only be attained from the Master 's plan . |
| 10 | Similarly , bathrooms that can only be reached through a bedroom are not a good idea if you have guests in the bedroom which does not adjoin the bathroom . |
| 11 | You 're soon drive round the bend by slippery blocks that wo n't let you stand still on them , electrical blocks that can only be crossed when the current 's off , blocks that crumble when you stand on ‘ em , others with gaping holes which you must fix by flicking a switch before you can cross … |
| 12 | It is a skill that can only be learned through experiences with a specific complex of machinery and , in contrast to that of traditional skilled work , it is specific to a particular enterprise . |
| 13 | He looks at me hard and says in a voice that can only be described as arch , ‘ Do you mean do I cry when I see children with flies round their eyes ? |
| 14 | Night has its own kind of vision , as if daylight can blind one to certain truths that can only be perceived in the night . |
| 15 | SUCCESS BREEDS SUCCESS AND INEVITABLY THE NEW 1991 OYSTER 68'S WILL BENEFIT FROM REFINEMENTS THAT CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED THROUGH DEVELOPMENT OF AN ESTABLISHED CLASS . |
| 16 | The truth with which faith deals is of the highest and most ultimate kind , and faith itself is a ‘ leap ’ and a ‘ passion ’ , a leap into the truth that can only be grasped on the road of authentic commitment . |
| 17 | He argues the company has tried to monopolise the market by convincing customers that its relational database management system is effectively the computer , making it appear that all other functions and tasks the user may want to perform are bound tightly to the database — requirements that can only be met by other Oracle products . |
| 18 | Or , alternatively , a mother encounters a persistent feeding difficulty in the baby , fails to resolve it , and as a result loses her initial equanimity and becomes tense and fearful with him ( and if that , in turn , then makes the feeding problem even worse one is left with a vicious spiral of the kind that can only be resolved by some drastic outside intervention and which clearly shows , moreover , the difficulty of disentangling cause and effect when confronted by the end result ) . |
| 19 | ‘ A national ambition that can only be realised at the European level . ’ |
| 20 | At its most conventional , the use of word pairs is a substitute for creative poetic activity , whereas the parallelism of greater precision is a subtle relationship between or among the lines of poetry that can only be designed in by a relatively sophisticated artist . |
| 21 | smoky thought-mutterings drifting up to add to those fume-clouds of the knowledge that can only be furthered by its own mistakes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | While these may take most of the burden from the public relations officer 's shoulders , there is still work that can only be done by you . |
| 24 | The discovery that varied aspects of a writer 's style point towards a common literary purpose is something that can only be demonstrated through the details of stylistic analysis . |
| 25 | Paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) provide a power to rectify that can only be exercised by the court . |
| 26 | It is felt that this approach provides a general procedure having wide applications , instead of producing a very specific " tailor made " system that can only be applied to one company . |
| 27 | The contemporary romance novel is a self-perpetuating genre , both textually and in its modes of marketing , offering in its texts a perpetually unfulfilled ‘ Desire ’ that can only be answered through the purchase of a new volume . |
| 28 | These advantages may relate to factor supplies , technology spillovers from domestic firms that can only be captured by locating there , the need to jump over trade barriers , or simply the opportunity to exploit a potential monopoly position . |
| 29 | There are ways of going on ( in Wittgensteinian vocabulary ) that mark out one discipline from another , with their tacit rules that can only be learned by being active in that community . |
| 30 | Once you own a detector , however , you can start to take an interest in invisible losses … losses that can only be found by detector owners . |