Example sentences of "[indef pn] can only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Botwin has found that a good clue to spotting a fear of intimacy is when someone can only have sex with people they do n't care about , but can confide and be intimate with people of the opposite sex who are seen as just good friends . |
| 2 | But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem . |
| 3 | One can only hope that tournament organisers come to recognise this and ensure that each event is staffed by the requisite number of officials . |
| 4 | In total one can only marvel at the numerous stations opened in the 1980s and it is pleasing to note that many more are in the pipeline . |
| 5 | One can only hope for all concerned with the pub estate that Threshold Inns are allowed the chance to prove themselves and become a legend in pub retailing . |
| 6 | One can only presume that another , more competitive product was needed to counter the twin stem camming devices made by Hugh Banner and Faces . |
| 7 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 8 | In practice one can only talk about one thing at a time , and in this Chapter I shall risk a distorting simplicity by looking at questions of theory largely in isolation from institutional matrices and situations , and concentrating on British activities to the exclusion of the American ones that accompanied or preceded them . |
| 9 | One can only imagine the time , the patience , the dedication , the sheer labour . |
| 10 | With the consumer industry and media boffins jamming up behind one another to support the unquestionably fine ideals of conservation , one can only wish that they would ask themselves as they prepare to board one more rolling bandwagon whether they really have anything to add to what has already been said . |
| 11 | after which horror one can only return to the banalities of modern city life which protect the individual from the terror of the deep insight . |
| 12 | If one contrasts the history of British Conservatism in the early twentieth century with the history of the British left — or , indeed , the German right — in the same period one can only be struck by the discrepancy in the volume and nature of the scholarship produced . |
| 13 | One can only assume that your club committee have the welfare of both the fishery and your fish at heart which we should not knock . |
| 14 | One can only understand how things are in terms of concepts in the first place , so in a sense the concepts came first since natural conditions only gain significance in terms of the way one had learned to see them . |
| 15 | One can only be fearful of what could have been the situation . ’ |
| 16 | From the only letter which survives written by William Springett , one can only conclude that he was a rather unpleasant man . |
| 17 | One can only ponder at the ethics of an industry which for thirty years slaughtered dolphins in their millions for the sake of saving 2 cents per can , and then requires an ‘ epic ’ debate to change its source of supply . |
| 18 | There seems to be no logical reason for ignoring some and then picking on one , but one can only suppose that , having missed , for whatever reason , their first opportunity of causing trouble , the authorities were just glad to get a second chance . |
| 19 | One can only think it is to do with their not addressing the rock . |
| 20 | My excuse is that one can only understand the unknown in terms of the known . |
| 21 | One can only speculate as to who put them up to it . ’ |
| 22 | One can only imagine the ways in which prime ministers break the bad news to Cabinet members they are dismissing . |
| 23 | One can only assume that the farm would suffer if this came about . |
| 24 | One can only say that , with any increases in exposure , the likelihood of ill effects occurring and the extent of ill effects which might occur would be expected to increase … |
| 25 | One can only admire his open-mindedness in allowing what would at first seem to him to be a reactionary step . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | One can only just go on hoping and praying that it is the best and not the worst that has happened . |
| 28 | Indeed , one can only wonder that a deep , profoundly intelligent and inherently human European culture is retreating to the background before the primitive revelry of violence and pornography and the flow of cheap feelings and low thoughts . |
| 29 | One can only conclude that the story about the two-way radios is entirely false . |
| 30 | In a sense , one can only be delighted that Leapor and other poets like her are receiving such serious attention . |