Example sentences of "can only [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be remembered that a company can only be the firm 's appointed representative if the firm accepts responsibility for the whole of the investment business it carries on on the firm 's behalf . |
| 2 | It can only be the plans for the house alterations , ’ she guessed . |
| 3 | These figures can only be the tip of the iceberg when we see the low rates of eligibility for maternity benefits and full time participation in the paid labour market for mothers with young children ( S. McRae , Maternity Rights in Britain , 1991 PSI ) . |
| 4 | Greenpeace say that this can only be the tip of the iceberg , as far more arrives clandestinely . |
| 5 | and outside where those students sit , I thought the young people were when you read some of that in paper the cigarette ends and crisp packets , well that can only be the students , I mean people go through but they 're not |
| 6 | This might be a glitch in the translation , but when Casaubon observes , ‘ Life is n't simple , the way it is in detective stories ’ , the gobsmacking banality can only be the author 's . |
| 7 | Given the pluralistic nature of society , they can only be the product of hysteria and demagogic manipulation . |
| 8 | The demise of capitalism can only be the consequence of a political struggle and it is the course of this struggle between classes , in the conditions created by the development of the capitalist mode of production , which we now have to examine . |
| 9 | During the lexicographic stage this can only be the result of the creation of a new entry . |
| 10 | It states that , apart from stochastic disturbances emanating from u , , deviations of output from its full employment , natural value can only be the result of errors in predicting the price level . |
| 11 | Formulas of this kind can only be the starting point in a process which always demands a sophisticated approach . |
| 12 | This can only be the web of Textrix denticulata , a small and prettily marked relative of the large house spider , which makes sheet webs in houses and outhouses . |
| 13 | it considers such an education to be the greatest safeguard against the dangerous growth of State power , to be indispensable for the preservation of an effective democracy and to be the one , moreover , which can only be the province of a voluntary independent movement ; |