Example sentences of "can only [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) Where a document of title to goods has been lawfully transferred to any person as buyer or owner of the goods , and that person transfers the document to a person who takes it in good faith and for valuable consideration , then — ; ( a ) if the last-mentioned transfer was by way of sale the unpaid seller 's right of lien or retention or stoppage in transit is defeated ; and ( b ) if the last-mentioned transfer was made by way of pledge or other disposition for value , the unpaid seller 's right of lien or retention or stoppage in transit can only be exercised subject to the rights of the transferee . ’ |
| 2 | These possibilities exist because some of the meanings which human beings find in experience depend on symbols and can only be given symbolic expression . |
| 3 | And on the other side , subordinate groups have no other recourse than armed revolt if they are deprived of other means of exercising political rights ; or they may find themselves in a situation where their formal rights can only be made effective in practice by the use or threat of violence . |
| 4 | Their class origins , too , were rapidly fictionalised , but the notion of a sudden demotic invasion of polite letters can only be called extravagant . |
| 5 | If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change . |
| 6 | One member followed me around all day abusing me verbally with what can only be called dirty talk . |
| 7 | Scotch Whisky … the world 's leading natural drink … can only be called Scotch if it is distilled and matured in Scotland … a natural drink … distilled in a land of great natural beauty … it takes nothing from nature which nature will not readily replace . |
| 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 . |