Example sentences of "[pron] can only be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if ‘ I can only be known by description , and the only description which is true of it is ‘ that group of mental states , caused by the same living body ’ of which the envy and my judgement are members ' , it follows that anyone who does not describe ‘ I ’ in that way , will not know what ‘ I ’ means , and so will mean nothing when he says ‘ I was envious yesterday ’ . |
| 2 | For reasons which can only be guessed at he decided to establish himself near Keswick in Cumberland and returned in the following year with Hans Loner , a relative by marriage , and twelve German workers , to set up works and to prospect more fully . |
| 3 | Looking at the terms of the agreement as contained in the letter from Hunter 's attorney , and the receipt , it is manifest that the payment was not made in discharge of the plaintiff 's rights against all other parties ; and the result of the whole is , that it does not operate as a release , or matter which could have been pleaded as an accord and satisfaction , but amounts merely to an engagement not to sue Hunter , which can only be pleaded by himself ; if the action , therefore , had been brought against two parties , it would not have been a discharge to both . |
| 4 | You will find you have access to swims you once only dreamed about and it becomes possible for you to float fish in swims which can only be fished with leger tackle from the bank . |
| 5 | The second reason why a simplistic relationship between agricultural technology and relations of production can not occur is that there are frequently many important local variations in technology which can only be uncovered by detailed analysis of settlement histories and cultural development . |
| 6 | In this the government is dependent on the police , armed forces and civil bureaucracy , a dependence which can only be offset by making concessions to one section of the bourgeois alliance or another . |
| 7 | In a situation of monopoly power , the profits which a company makes will contain an element which can only be ascribed to the use of monopoly power by that company . |
| 8 | ‘ If this interest be not determinable so long as the tenant complies with the terms of the agreement , it would operate as an estate for life ; which can only be created by deed … |
| 9 | On the other hand , if an individual or organization already owns a share on which options may be purchased , and a liability is expected to rise within the near future which can only be met by the sale of the shares , the cash flow from that sale may be secured by the purchase of put options . |
| 10 | They also have a strong international dimension since they argue that these forces are aspects ‘ of the continued development of world economy , an economy which can only be understood as a single , integrated system ’ . |
| 11 | It sometimes seems that individuals have a startling impact on this pattern which can only be understood by appealing to specific psychological traits . |
| 12 | When Mukařovský ( 1936 and 1970 : 70ff. ) wrote of art , literature , or poetry as semiological facts , he meant that artistic works constitute particular kinds of signs which can only be understood within the framework of a general sign-theory . |
| 13 | Another distinction is between so called European type options which can only be exercised on the settlement day , and American type options which can be exercised at any time up to and including the settlement day . |
| 14 | This creates a lack of popular confidence in democracy itself which can only be rectified by bringing more and more of that power into the public and accountable sector . |
| 15 | While such research can be of value , there is much work which can only be done on " live " systems . |
| 16 | The economic causes of the war constituted but one dimension of a process which can only be grasped by a multi-causal approach . |
| 17 | The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' . |
| 18 | As usual we take the immediate point — Frodo and the others want to get out of the forest — while reading through to a kind of universality : the ‘ shadowed land ’ is life , life 's delusions of despair are the ‘ woods ’ , despair will end in some vision of cosmic order which can only be hinted at in stars or ‘ sun ’ . |
| 19 | But there is obvious weakness in a system for controlling the government which can only be activated by a member of that government . |
| 20 | Is a complex idea which can only be explained to parents with great difficulty . |
| 21 | At this point optimism makes way for a new kind of awareness , tragic awareness , which can only be borne through art in the shape of myth . |
| 22 | Running from pain in the back is a problem which can only be handled with understanding . |
| 23 | There will always be subjects which can only be handled by referring them to apparently independent adjudicators outside government . |
| 24 | CANCELLATION : When you book your accommodation , you will be entering into a legally binding contract which can only be broken by mutual consent . |
| 25 | In many statements of this sort racism is likened to a contagious disease , which people catch off each other , or a cancer in the body politic , something which can only be stopped by either eliminating its carriers , or protecting others , especially children , from contact with its ‘ breeding grounds ’ . |
| 26 | For many years champagne — which can only be made in the Champagne region , north east of Paris — has been regarded as the ‘ real thing ’ , and other sparkling wines as poor relations . |
| 27 | But they also raise important issues about the role of the judiciary which can only be assessed in the light of a consideration of the proper role and function of judicial review , which will be undertaken in Part IV . |
| 28 | As this inflow increases — a population movement which can only be compared to the millennial westward movement of peoples to Europe which ended with the defeat of the Mongols — a final answer will be given to our absorbing little debate about European identity . |
| 29 | There is a three-month time limit , which can only be extended for good reasons . |
| 30 | Such an objective would be ill-founded if the process of integration did not aim also at the Community 's complete monetary integration which can only be achieved through the establishment of a European currency union . |