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 .
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