Example sentences of "one can only [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can only admire Lucie-Smith 's confidence in taking on such an undertaking , but wonder why Laurence King Publishing were keen on this project . |
| 2 | In the current absence of information about problematic matters from the teachers ' point of view , one can only make assumptions based on impressions about the kind of issue that is uppermost in their minds . |
| 3 | After all , one can only make peace with one 's enemies . |
| 4 | As Bateson ( 1973 ) argues , the psychological frame appropriate in discussing play or games is more akin to a picture frame than to the logical frame of a mathematical set : what is outside the picture frame is irrelevant and one can only make judgements of comparison and contrast on matters within the frame . |
| 5 | That policy does not work and if one applies it in that way one can only deepen slumps — just as the Government are doing now . |
| 6 | He told him committee last week that staff at Coed Glas were in a difficult situation and ‘ one can only have sympathy with them ’ . |