Example sentences of "and can only " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful , and can only show my gratitude by giving them the text to criticise under more agreeable conditions . |
| 2 | This ethnography is therefore an attempt to meet the dilemma , for the problem of revelation and betrayal continues to surface and can only be resolved , at best , by overcoming these subjective feelings and pursuing compromises ( Barnes 1981 : 2 ) . |
| 3 | I have tried the Theakston 's brewed at the Masham brewery in recent weeks , and can only comment that I prefer the Gallowgate product . |
| 4 | Well , I take as I find , and can only say that I was happy to do Toshack a favour a few years back when a friend , an international fixer with contacts in Portuguese football , rang to ask if anyone might be available to Sporting Lisbon . |
| 5 | And angry young men are just older men who have n't grown up and can only see one side of the coin . |
| 6 | You have no helpers and can only devote a total of 4 hours observation time to the task on any day . |
| 7 | The fungi are parasitical and can only live by feeding on organic matter , including wood and leaves . |
| 8 | The title Architect is protected by law and can only be used by those appropriately qualified and registered . |
| 9 | The interview transcripts run to some 121 pages and can only be superficially summarized here . |
| 10 | Square planar and square pyramidal methane geometries are much less stable than tetrahedral and are in energy terms incapable of existence , and can only be ‘ examined ’ by calculation . |
| 11 | It is because the attender is unobservable and can only be inferred from retrospective description that mental experiencing includes a strong tendency to dichotomize the ‘ I ’ ( attender ) from the ‘ me ’ ( self-description ) ; a dichotomy that parallels that between ‘ I ’ and my body . |
| 12 | Though consent , if valid , has normative consequences , and can only be explained through its purported normative consequences , it does not bear its normativeness on its face . |
| 13 | When it is demolished it is lost for good and can only be duplicated at considerable expense . |
| 14 | Sometimes they may spread to involve the terminal urethra , and can only be seen if the urethral meatus is parted . |
| 15 | Remember that cases which have apparently recovered , can remain as carriers for a considerable time and can only be detected by laboratory isolation from nasal swabs . |
| 16 | The wave , like the mele , like all music , like the text , is a mental event , since it is never wholly present in any one instant and can only be grasped as a formal pattern existing through time . |
| 17 | It requires a good water starting and carve gybing ability and can only be sailed in a consistent Force 3/4+ . |
| 18 | Even so , book trade statistics never quite add up , and can only give an impression rather than an exact picture . |
| 19 | Because even in a more refined system there is going to be a stage where issues can not be resolved by analysis or delicate agreement and can only be resolved by crude political battering . |
| 20 | Usually it is covert and can only be diagnosed by specifically measuring blood lipids . |
| 21 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 22 | First of all , local authorities possess only a very limited economic power and can only exercise what powers they have in very small geographical areas . |
| 23 | You only receive the lower dependent wife 's pension and can only claim on your husband 's contributions after he draws a pension . |
| 24 | On the contrary , it must be clear , a priori that in an antagonistic society , a society based on productive and social anarchy , there can not be an uninterrupted development of the forces , for in such a society the laws of equilibrium are and can only be realized by means of continual or recurrent disruptions of the equilibrium . |
| 25 | In fact , in a gloriously mystical way , we are an integral part of this cosmic energy dance and can only really understand it all by mystic superconsciousness , from within . |
| 26 | The real value of a key deposited with a neighbour comes when you are ill or incapacitated and can only call for help or reach the phone , but not reach the front door . |
| 27 | The house is small and can only take max 25 people at one time . |
| 28 | The chest has three different padlocks and can only be opened when all three keyholders , the vicar and the two hospital wardens , are present . |
| 29 | You are having more than your fair share of troubles with friends and colleagues at the moment. , You 're sensitive by nature and can only take so much of this . |
| 30 | For example the output stage of the op.amp operates with a current of a couple of milliamps and can only work in class-AB into loads of less than 10k or so . |