Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] only [be] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is ‘ yes ’ : a recent article , drawing on Eusebius ' Life of Constantine , seems to show without doubt that it was Constantine who introduced this law : Eusebius describes measures implemented by Constantine which can only be understood as referring to this law . |
| 2 | The bare infinitive in exclamations evokes therefore an incidence of the infinitive 's event to its support which can only be represented as potential since the speaker feels it has little or no chance of being real , of finding a place in real time . |
| 3 | But it may also be an uneasy truce , which can only be sustained as long as certain questions are not asked . |
| 4 | Devereux considers that , at root , there is a substratum which can only be described as consciousness , that this is a field effect and that the brain simply processes the consciousness in a similar way to that in which a television set processes a transmitted signal . |
| 5 | From this stage I proceeded to a more general sense of superiority , which can only be described as moral . |
| 6 | He had piss-holes as eyes , foul breath , decaying teeth and an attitude towards Mandeville which can only be described as servile . |
| 7 | Frans Hals had painted portraits of girls who could only be described as plain , but something lively and piquant redeemed them . |
| 8 | There a reception committee awaited her , at the head of which was a young man who could only be described as beautiful . |
| 9 | Today , rambutans ( Nephelium lappaceum , Sapindaceae ) are distributed this way , growing up around deserted encampments of forest people in the Malay Peninsula , and several other fruits gathered there can only be swallowed as the flesh is either difficult to remove or the seeds are too fiddly to extract ( as in blackberries , blackcurrants and tomatoes in modern society sewage farms raise good tomato plants ) : for example the mata-kuching ( Dimocarpus longan ) and the rambai ( Baccaurea motleyana , Euphorbiaceae ) . |
| 10 | Whereas in Britain , with the growth of suffrage , catholics could never be perceived as a political threat because of the smallness of their numbers , in Ireland , with the growth of the home rule movement and its accompanying nationalism , they could only be perceived as politically , religiously , and nationally subversive and suspicion of them remained . |
| 11 | Here were the secret histories , the stories behind the stories , the truths so terrible they could only be written as fiction , the chronicles of the insane , the lives of the damned . |
| 12 | It felt like it in the GLX , with what can only be described as feeble front-end grip , resulting in premature and excessive understeer . |
| 13 | In parallel to what can only be described as ‘ photo-painting ’ , Bowran has been developing a means of recreating the effect of a charcoal drawing with a printer colleague . |
| 14 | Looking back over this year 's first round matches , obviously Germany 's defeat in Rio by Brazil , amid what can only be described as typical South American frenzy and excitement , was the biggest shock and one which might even lead to repercussions not only by the ITF about crowd behaviour in some parts of the world but also from within the disgruntled German camp . |
| 15 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks that Unix International seems to be sponsoring ( UX No 423 , 424 ) says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp , the project still lacks the compulsion that galvanized the industry to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |