Example sentences of "can only make [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | After all , one can only make peace with one 's enemies . |
2 | Many Foundations etc. can only make donations to non profit-making organisations , 2 . |
3 | Readability researchers often emphasise that it is not possible to use a formula to assess difficulty at the individual sentence level ; a formula or graph can only make predictions about difficulty at a global level . |
4 | Similarly we can only make inferences about the nature of learning from observing these changes . |
5 | In the current absence of information about problematic matters from the teachers ' point of view , one can only make assumptions based on impressions about the kind of issue that is uppermost in their minds . |
6 | What we also see is a description of this underlying God which can only make sense in personal terms . |
7 | People lower down the hierarchy can only make claims if the deceased did not have relatives who rank above them ; and a distinction is made between full and half-blood relatives , the former having prior claims ( Cretney , 1984 , pp. 698–700 ) . |
8 | Personal spirituality can only make progress if it is in partnership with social spirituality . |
9 | Tell that to Mike Teague , who can only make money if he can work . |
10 | Under the current wording of the legislation , companies can only make profits from supplying electricity and building new power stations . |
11 | As Bateson ( 1973 ) argues , the psychological frame appropriate in discussing play or games is more akin to a picture frame than to the logical frame of a mathematical set : what is outside the picture frame is irrelevant and one can only make judgements of comparison and contrast on matters within the frame . |
12 | In Germany , both the Minister for Internal Affairs and the Ministers of Culture in the Lander can take independent decisions , while the Russian part of the commission is a consultative body and can only make recommendations which are subsequently ratified at State level . |
13 | The conference has no other powers , it can only make recommendations . |
14 | Thinking can only make use of the patterns we have acquired in the past . |
15 | In reflecting on Basil as a person , I can only make comment as I knew him , over a dozen years or so and , during which time , I can not recall one unkind word or act he ever directed towards me . |
16 | On fixed frames , the weaver can only make rugs in sizes smaller than the inner dimensions of the frame ; adjustable frames allow one or more of the beams to be extended so that larger items can be woven . |
17 | or you can ha , tap another code in and it 'll only make local calls and another code you can only make nationals |
18 | But eventually the truth will emerge in areas where now we can only make guesses . |