Example sentences of "can only be [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the following , said on Thursday , can only be referring to next Thursday ( or perhaps some more remote Thursday ) , otherwise the speaker should have said today : ( 58 ) I 'll see you on Thursday The same holds if it is said on Wednesday , due to pre-emptive tomorrow . |
| 2 | It is felt that this approach provides a general procedure having wide applications , instead of producing a very specific " tailor made " system that can only be applied to one company . |
| 3 | Styles can only be applied to whole paragraphs , and the formatting details are stored in the markers which occur at the end of each paragraph . |
| 4 | As styles can only be applied to whole paragraphs , you do n't have to be too careful about selecting text ; just pop the cursor anywhere in the block and the formatting will be applied to the whole paragraph . |
| 5 | The first is that the retention by the state of taxes unlawfully exacted is particularly obnoxious , because it is one of the most fundamental principles of our law — enshrined in a famous constitutional document , the Bill of Rights 1688 — that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament ; and full effect can only be given to that principle if the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand can be enforced as a matter of right . |
| 6 | These notions of the automatisation of processes which no longer require close monitoring are described in more detail in Underwood ( 1982 ) , but for the present purposes it is sufficient to note that attention can only be devoted to higher-level activities , such as comprehension , when lower-level activities have become skilled through practice . |
| 7 | Some of the keynames ( like Beep ) can only be set to one of two values , so Beep=yes means that Windows will beep every time there 's an error . |
| 8 | As the key range , nine digits , is potentially 10 000 times the address range , 100 000 , even division can only be expected to equal or very marginally improve on perfect randomization . |