Example sentences of "can only be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | alcohol can only be served to persons taking table meals . |
| 2 | If the target is eventually sold for a profit , the benefit of the realised reserves can only be transferred to the original purchaser ( by dividend ) if the IHC has adequate distributable resources . |
| 3 | While the decision can not be impugned on the facts , it undoubtedly confirms the difficulties which inventor employees face where the employer 's sales can only be traced to a single main purchaser of the patented product . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Is a complex idea which can only be explained to parents with great difficulty . |
| 6 | In addition to the above criteria of articulation and recognition of breaches , a further necessary condition must be satisfied : actions can only be said to be rule-governed when some other alternative actions are possible . |
| 7 | The existence of the debt can only be said to be a ‘ burden ’ if the government is constrained in its use of lump-sum taxes . |
| 8 | The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way . |
| 9 | National rules in the member states where services are provided can only be applied to the extent that the public interest requires it , and after due account is taken of the national rules applied to the company in the member state of establishment . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , literal mnemonics can only be applied to a very limited number of subjects in a scheme or the order of subjects will be distorted . |
| 14 | In the case of the substantive apple , it is obvious that the lexeme evoked by this word can only be applied to objects of our experience which are by nature apples : it can not be said of a pen or an eraser . |
| 15 | They can only be taxed to the extent that there is relevant income in the trust . |
| 16 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Advice and assistance in making a will can only be given to a client who is over 70 , or disabled or suffering from a mental disorder ( or a parent or guardian wishing to provide for such a person ) , or a single parent wishing to appoint a testamentary guardian . |
| 19 | Opinion on an individual 's functioning can only be given to others with that person 's consent . |
| 20 | But there are things you would be ashamed to tell even your doctor , things so vile they can only be confessed to the lowest , most contemptible functionaries of all . |
| 21 | For example , we have already noted the argument ( and see Chapter 2 below ) that if semantics is to be truth-conditional , then the truth conditions can only be assigned to utterances , not sentences — in other words , contextual specifications are a necessary input to a semantic component , and thus pragmatics is ( at least in this respect ) 16 prior to semantics . |
| 22 | Book loans to registered students can only be made to them in person , or on written application , if they quote their registration number . |
| 23 | Prior to there being a detailed component to carry the specific attribute , the relationship can only be made to the assembly space . |
| 24 | In a situation of monopoly power , the profits which a company makes will contain an element which can only be ascribed to the use of monopoly power by that company . |
| 25 | If this causes difficulties for some , Foucault 's scepticism with regard to the tendency to inflate the effect of individual agency can only be compared to the position of many Marxisms in which resistance and revolution are hardly the privilege of the individual as such , but rather of collective class action . |
| 26 | As this inflow increases — a population movement which can only be compared to the millennial westward movement of peoples to Europe which ended with the defeat of the Mongols — a final answer will be given to our absorbing little debate about European identity . |
| 27 | Teasing by schoolmates and pressure from social workers has , in the eyes of Dr Reid and Mr Fenton , ensured that the child , who can only be referred to as OW , is ‘ away with the fairies ’ . |
| 28 | A person ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in a transaction entered into in contravention of section 3 can only be subjected to a restitutionary order under subsection ( 2 ) if and to the extent that the person received money or property under the transaction in question . |
| 29 | The most difficult question is what to do with the beef mountain , created , in the words of one senior Commission official , by a process which ‘ takes the best beef , freezes it and so destroys it , with the result that it can only be sold to people who can not afford it . ’ |
| 30 | Although there is much to support this view of the origin of our modern idea of time , it is now realized that it can only be adhered to with some reservations , as we shall see . |