Example sentences of "which can [verb] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the size of large corporations , this is impossible , owing not only to the cognitive limits of human beings , which can tolerate only a severely bounded form of rationality ( March and Simon , 1958 , ch. 7 ) , but also to ‘ process limits ’ . |
| 2 | This time the Attorney General replied that the figures for the period before 1982 were ‘ not fully available or reasonably accessible ’ , which can mean only that no one in his office was prepared to make the count . |
| 3 | A difficulty is that psychology has narrow terms of reference which can give only a few useful results , for example on the question of illusion . |
| 4 | This , it is claimed , provides at the same time a clue as to the meaning of fiction ; for fiction really is the result of treating that which can exist only derivatively , or " parasitically " , as if it existed in its own right . |
| 5 | The first requirement must be love of and pride in one 's country , which can grow only in men and women who genuinely feel they have a stake in it , however small ; men and women who know that their own initiative , ingenuity , and hard work will improve that stake and make fuller and more secure lives for their families . |
| 6 | Quite apart from the hotly debated issue of language capability , the existing great apes are all creatures which can survive only in very limited numbers on specialized diets in specialized tropical conditions while the species Homo is just the reverse . |
| 7 | Consider the concept , common in high-level languages , of the boolean variable , that is , a variable which can take only two values ( true and false ) and upon which the usual boolean functions — and , or , etc.ban be Performed . |
| 8 | In the vital chapter ‘ The Shadow of the Past ’ Gandalf says a great deal about it , but his information boils down to three basic data : ( 1 ) the Ring is immensely powerful , in right or wrong hands ; ( 2 ) it is dangerous and ultimately fatal to all its possessors — in a sense there are no right hands ; ( 3 ) it can not simply be left unused or put aside , but must be destroyed , something which can happen only in the place of its origin , Orodruin , Mount Doom . |
| 9 | This is a loose , disjointed organisation , riven by strife , which can flourish only where weak or corrupt politicians have lost the will to enforce the law . |