Example sentences of "can only be [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 The latter might be comparable in date to the Kingscote mosaic , but as that itself can only be assigned tentatively to c. 325 , this association must be considered inconclusive .
2 Such task analysis can only be carried out to some cost-effective limit beyond which the skilled operator must be trusted to get things right by applying his broad expertise .
3 This improvement in standards can only be put down to cellar training .
4 It can only be put down to the ravages of drink ’ .
5 The standards and safety measures now required for the care of the elderly and disabled mean that houses used , for example , as Cheshire Homes , can only be brought up to current standards at inordinate expense and involving radical alteration of the historic interiors .
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