Example sentences of "it can only " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five weeks is structured to provide a fairly comprehensive picture of actor training though even so it can only provide an outline of classes at drama school . |
| 2 | It can only generate anxiety , despair . |
| 3 | But it can only happen , he wrote , if it is totally and utterly divorced from me . |
| 4 | Once it crosses the centre-line it can only be used immediately as a back fist . |
| 5 | ‘ But without the resumption of a regular supply of red iron , it can only be a matter of time before these tragic people die . ’ |
| 6 | It is vicious because , as I have just argued , the external relation that constitutes the meaning of the mental content is not something that the subject himself can apprehend : it can only be constructed from a third-person perspective . |
| 7 | It can only come in as some kind of ‘ emergent property ’ of all these causal interactions . |
| 8 | On this matter , some point out that , assuming electromagnetic radiation does have an effect , it can only proliferate cancers already present . |
| 9 | It can only be done with conviction , with the sort of approach we used in 1969 with Ostpolitik . |
| 10 | Many people are worried that it can only be used for the disable person . |
| 11 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |
| 12 | If ‘ the final aim of every living thing , creature , or being is the full achievement of itself ’ ( Phoenix , 403 ) it can only do this through another — typically the other of sexual difference . |
| 13 | There are no manuals for this struggle , for it can only be done by those who have pure hearts and sharp wits and the wisdom to know themselves . |
| 14 | But it can only be a quirk ; and the force of its ‘ goodness ’ is strictly limited and circumscribed . |
| 15 | British cinema must grow up , but it can only do so by building on everything it has already created , even when that includes silly Hollywood ripoffs . |
| 16 | It had become increasingly clear over the last few days that the anger of East Germans is focused on the Communist Party and that it can only be a question of time before the party has to relinquish its leading role and allow political competition . |
| 17 | It can only reduce student numbers and make our education system more unequal . |
| 18 | It can only reduce student numbers and make our education system more unequal . |
| 19 | It can only be hoped that the newly aggressive financial players of the Thatcher era manage to avoid the same errors . |
| 20 | It can not be quantified , nor described ; if it exists , it can only be felt . ’ |
| 21 | But it can only carry one 1,000lb ( 455kg ) warhead , or a set of 166 bomblets which can be dropped in three batches . |
| 22 | ‘ If they are , I am convinced it can only mean Zambia Crevecoeur is dead , and all evidence of hir physical existence destroyed . ’ |
| 23 | Equally important is public confidence or acceptance of coinage ; as coinage is a convention , in the sense that its value is conventionally fixed by the authority of the state with the agreement of the public , it can only function if the value of the coinage , as fixed by the state , is accepted by those who use it ; otherwise , market forces will tend to discount overvalued coins towards their individual bullion values . |
| 24 | Since it can only pay advisers a standard 3 p.c. commission by loading its funds with an equivalent charge , it runs the substantial risk of losing business now that the charge has been cut . |
| 25 | It can only subvert the young . |
| 26 | If Tories are not flung to the lions in Blaenau , it can only be because lions are rare in the one-time mining valleys of South Wales . |
| 27 | It can only get better . |
| 28 | It sounds a desperate measure ; but if it 's happening in California , it can only be a matter of months before it takes off here . |
| 29 | Taking various client groups into the bureaucracy is in itself no real way forward because in that context it can only lead to professional defensiveness of the worst kind . |
| 30 | If therefore these words [ Genesis 3:16 ] give any Power to Adam , it can only be a Conjugal Power , not Political , the Power that every Husband hath to order the things of private Concernment in his Family , as the Proprietor of the Goods and Land there , and to have his Will take place before that of his wife in all things of their common Concernment ; but not a Political Power of Life and Death over her , much less over any body else . |