Example sentences of "[pron] can only be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Is a complex idea which can only be explained to parents with great difficulty . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | then he or she can only be forced to hand back the item if the price it cost him or her is paid in compensation [ Art . |
| 5 | Teasing by schoolmates and pressure from social workers has , in the eyes of Dr Reid and Mr Fenton , ensured that the child , who can only be referred to as OW , is ‘ away with the fairies ’ . |
| 6 | But there are things you would be ashamed to tell even your doctor , things so vile they can only be confessed to the lowest , most contemptible functionaries of all . |
| 7 | They can only be taxed to the extent that there is relevant income in the trust . |
| 8 | They can only be taken to be creating expectations of faithfulness . |
| 9 | The release included statements that ‘ the discovery will be relatively easy to make into a usable technology for generating heat and power ’ ; and that ‘ this generation of heat continues over long periods and is so large that it can only be attributed to a nuclear process ’ . |
| 10 | The most difficult question is what to do with the beef mountain , created , in the words of one senior Commission official , by a process which ‘ takes the best beef , freezes it and so destroys it , with the result that it can only be sold to people who can not afford it . ’ |
| 11 | Although there is much to support this view of the origin of our modern idea of time , it is now realized that it can only be adhered to with some reservations , as we shall see . |
| 12 | It can only be brought to an end on or after the date it runs out by a notice in a prescribed form , served by either the landlord or the tenant . |
| 13 | The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way . |