Example sentences of "can only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to have made a Will can only add to that stress . |
| 2 | Families can stay together through an extremely difficult period — but this can only happen if organisations like ACET are sufficiently funded . |
| 3 | While over 2,300 people wait on death rows countrywide to see if they will die or not , we can only hope that the US comes to its senses soon . |
| 4 | I am grateful , and can only show my gratitude by giving them the text to criticise under more agreeable conditions . |
| 5 | Museums are at an advantage in making close examination of works in their own collections showing evidence about a picture , say , which can only be discovered by the newest scientific and technological methods . |
| 6 | Even taped interviews can only be read with caution , since they may have been edited , and the reader will not be told how . |
| 7 | I can only hope that the bursar now inhabits a wholly healthy Oxford . |
| 8 | ‘ This theoretically realistic and humorous novel is not unlike The Waste Land , the showpiece of Modernism and Impersonality ’ — which gives the impression that the realistic and humorous can only be deemed compatible with impersonality if they can also be deemed theoretical , and that the novel may not be very funny . |
| 9 | But it is a self which readers of the book can only rarely have found it hard to experience . |
| 10 | In such a setting , he believes , his work as a teacher can only be betrayed . |
| 11 | The five weeks is structured to provide a fairly comprehensive picture of actor training though even so it can only provide an outline of classes at drama school . |
| 12 | I can only put it down to the strong classical emphasis which prevails in the courses offered in the UK , although many of the university drama courses in the USA do stage Shakespeare and the European classical authors . |
| 13 | They can only suggest concepts and invite you to use them . |
| 14 | A performer can only prove his talent by performing — meanwhile by their subscriptions members play an important part in making Equity effective . |
| 15 | They could even have proven to be the negative experience of small ethnic enclaves defending themselves in hostile environments , but even this viewpoint can only be speculation . |
| 16 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 17 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 18 | It can only generate anxiety , despair . |
| 19 | Since you are so unwilling to communicate with your old friends they can only guess . |
| 20 | There can only be description , he wrote , The Big Glass . |
| 21 | But death can only be fought with death , and life with life , he wrote . |
| 22 | But it can only happen , he wrote , if it is totally and utterly divorced from me . |
| 23 | The unusual juxtaposition of these two words can only be a subconscious association in the author 's mind with the well-known carol , The Twelve Days of Christmas whose repetitive chorus ends , ‘ And a partridge in a pear-tree . ’ |
| 24 | It is suitable for even the smallest gardens , and if you can only accommodate one daisy-flowered perennial it should be this . |
| 25 | This kind of blow-over can only be avoided by manning the glider all the time or by tying it down with pickets , preferably with the wings level and all its control surfaces locked to prevent them flapping against their stops . |
| 26 | This can only be avoided by releasing the tow promptly before the situation develops . |
| 27 | A swing can only occur if the tail is sliding sideways over the ground . |
| 28 | Remember that if the glider is drifting towards an obstruction this can only be stopped by banking away from it and not by just applying the rudder . |
| 29 | Such incidents can only be avoided if the pilot has a more open mind about where he is going to land . |
| 30 | Any time that a wing begins to drop at a stall it is the beginning of a possible spin , but the spin can only develop if the wing is kept stalled and the glider is allowed to continue to yaw . |