Example sentences of "can [verb] only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between Ulthuan and Naggaroth there can exist only war unto the death . |
| 2 | We can answer only problems printed on this page . |
| 3 | Larne and other Northern Ireland ports can seek only 50pc assistance for roll-on/roll-off facilities . |
| 4 | The true extent of the use is unknown but its high cost has certainly ensured that videodisc can claim only pockets of success and has by no means been widely influential . |
| 5 | Sainsbury has expressed an interest in the site but a Government clause imposed during the bus privatisation programme means Caldaire can keep only 35pc of the purchase price above £1.3 million effectively making a move financially impossible . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , given the failure to repeat the practice of a mid-decade Census as first carried out in 1966 , this source can provide only snapshots of the population at ten-year intervals , the most recent being 1981 . |
| 7 | ‘ As far as I can see only Mr Merrivale is in the clear ’ , went on Mary . |
| 8 | If matters are simplified for him by assuming that he can move only north , south , east or west , and excluding the possibility that he might collapse on the spot , can you visualize the path he would follow ? |
| 9 | In the absence of adequate bus production capacity in the United Kingdom , we can face only danger in terms of the future bus market . |
| 10 | However successful British Coal is in the future in building on its outstanding success in recent years and improving productivity , one of its basic problems is that it can sell only coal . |
| 11 | This would have been so easy had they dug narrow trenches , the practice of the past , as this method can produce only scraps of unrelated evidence . |
| 12 | The Calibra 16v gets from rest to 60mph in 8.1secs and on to 100mph in 22secs , but the Corrado G60 can manage only 8.9secs to 60mph and falls a disappointing two seconds behind by 100mph . |
| 13 | ( This can actually be done because the corner and edge pieces can be removed , leaving the centres attached together , and one can put only corner pieces into corner locations , etc . ) |
| 14 | Under the new rules , local firms importing goods valued at under $30,000 can receive only 15% of the hard currency needed to pay for them in advance , with the remainder allocated only after goods have cleared customs and value-added tax has been paid . |
| 15 | Currently MainWin can handle only Windows 3.0 programs with 3.1 support expected in the second half . |
| 16 | But x has n elements , so that we can find only n — s of its elements in terms of the remaining s ( see unc an example is given in 2.5 ) which are arbitrary . |
| 17 | He can find only delusion , tyranny or demagoguery among the various heads of state and assembled representatives . |
| 18 | We may write this equation as unc Equation ( 5 ) is known as a parametric solution : since we have only n — s independent relations we can determine only n — s unknowns ( y ) in terms of the remaining s quantities ( z ) , which may be regarded as arbitrary parameters in the problem . |