Example sentences of "they can only " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can only suggest concepts and invite you to use them . |
| 2 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 3 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 4 | Since you are so unwilling to communicate with your old friends they can only guess . |
| 5 | The news that ‘ for the time being ’ they can only go to or through Czechoslovakia with a visa , left East Germans stunned . |
| 6 | Now their country has become a prison which they can only leave with special permission — a situation which is guaranteed to fuel bitterness and resentment against the hardline regime . |
| 7 | Like the absence of useful maritime peripheries , however , they can only serve as a secondary reinforcement of pre-existing leanings to political centralism . |
| 8 | In fact , the limits within which voluntary resources can be effectively used are narrow ; and they can only be effectively used even within those limits if professional full-paid effort is put into making it happen . |
| 9 | There will always be imperfections and they can only be overcome by personal relationships . |
| 10 | ‘ I believe that the new legislation and initiatives such as the Heartbeat Campaign should be welcomed because they can only serve to benefit the industry . ’ |
| 11 | The fear of Cardiff 's rivals is that , without the same resources , they can only lose in a transfer war , and some are looking to the Welsh Rugby Union for legislative salvation . |
| 12 | Me , I find myself steadily drifting back to the unfashionable conviction that radical meanings are betrayed by conventional forms ; that if melodies , key changes , and vocal cadences follow expected paths they can only reinforce commonsense perceptions . |
| 13 | It maintains that they can only benefit if it secures the return to Turkey of the so-called Lydian hoard : Lydian , Archaemenid Persian and other Anatolian artefacts dating back to 600–500 BC which , it contends , were looted in 1960–66 from tombs in the Ushak region of Turkey . |
| 14 | Because they can only see what 's straight ahead of them . |
| 15 | While Baptist fundamentalists are powerful in the ‘ Bible Belt ’ of North and South Carolina and Virginia , they can only ever succeed at federal level by working in alliance with other conservative blocs , of which the biggest is that of American Roman Catholicism . |
| 16 | Closely hobbled with tightly drawn ropes they can only move by laborious hopping with arched backs … |
| 17 | If you 're Irish or Polish , no one can tell by your skin , they can only tell by your name . |
| 18 | Glitz , glamour and gloss can not replace substance , they can only enhance it . |
| 19 | When asked who they will vote for , they are being asked as experts because they know about their own vote ; ask them who will win the election and they can only guess , rely on anecdotal information or regurgitate polls or commentators they have read . |
| 20 | But as the pollsters say again and again , even at their most accurate they can only give ‘ snapshots ’ of opinion at any given moment . |
| 21 | They can only issue briefs , bulls , encyclicals and the occasional definition . |
| 22 | Border police say they can only stand by helplessly as Poles , returning home with their stolen Mercedes and BMWs , suddenly accelerate past them . |
| 23 | Where the land meets the sea there are hundreds of beaches and coves , some so secluded that they can only be reached by boat . |
| 24 | So far as talking is concerned , they can only do it to each other . |
| 25 | At worst they can only say no ! |
| 26 | This suggests that either educational reform has just not gone far enough or that , although improved educational standards constitute an important development goal , they can only be effective when accompanied by structural changes in the rest of society . |
| 27 | They can only hint , for example , at the group activities of older people which excluded a child , or the pain of bereavement , or the loneliness of those without family , which then as now , must have been widespread . |
| 28 | They can only be exerted within the body of water so the outermost molecules are drawn inwards away from the surface . |
| 29 | They can only eat soup . ’ |
| 30 | But live , for the first time viewer , they can only hope to achieve a possible connection via the actual presentation and general ‘ sound ’ . |