Example sentences of "can [vb infin] only one [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The female cuckoo can mimic only one type of egg and must try to lay in a nest of this species if her offspring is to have a good chance of survival . |
| 2 | — the system can consider only one interpretation of an ambiguous sentence at a time , but can easily ’ flip ’ between interpretations ( as in visual disambiguation of the Necker Cube ) ; |
| 3 | I can see only one way in which this question can be approached quantitatively . |
| 4 | Perhaps lawyers and judges accept that proposition as true by convention , which means true just because everyone else accepts it , the way chess players all accept that a king can move only one square at a time . |
| 5 | The railway bridge can take only one vehicle at a time and obscures visibility . |
| 6 | Most of the high street banks and the top 10 building societies are tied agents , and so can sell only one brand of insurance policy . |
| 7 | A beetle can pass only one gene to each of its offspring . |
| 8 | The female tsetse can bear only one baby at a time and in all her six month life , she can produce no more than a dozen . |
| 9 | Predators such as cats can handle only one duck at a time , so if you are a duck it makes sense to sleep in flocks . |
| 10 | Writing about the immediate aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution , the Kiev-born writer Mikhail Bulgakov recalled : ‘ I can say only one thing for the moment — according to the calculations of the Kievans they had 18 changes of power . |
| 11 | Since the restrictions on the signing of overseas players were eased in 1968 , I can find only one instance of a non-English-qualified fast bowler helping his adopted county to the title , Wayne Daniel of Middlesex in 1977 ( joint champions ) and outright winners in 1982 and 1985 . |
| 12 | Since 2I — B and I — B are both simply degenerate we can find only one vector for each to satisfy |