Example sentences of "[vb mod] only [be] described " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although automatic and semi-automatic high-bay warehousing systems are being built abroad at an ever increasing rate — some 2,000 have been constructed in Japan in the last fifteen years — the rate of development in the United Kingdom may only be described as slow . |
| 2 | I was going through what could only be described a ‘ drop-out ’ period . |
| 3 | If the situation in the United States is less than perfect , then the state of affairs on the other side of the Panama Canal could only be described as disastrous . |
| 4 | We went with our newly found friend who took us through the side door to a shed at the back of his premises and showed us what could only be described as treasure — five large horse collars of black leather . |
| 5 | She spoke in a curiously musical , richly accented way with a certain pattern that could only be described as antique — as though the speech mannerisms of the local dales folk of two centuries ago had been preserved within Hannah . |
| 6 | Of all the films Ocean might 've obtained the licence to , they chose one that could only be described as mediocre . |
| 7 | Frans Hals had painted portraits of girls who could only be described as plain , but something lively and piquant redeemed them . |
| 8 | Jan Wolf , husband of Dobroslawa Miodowicz-Wolf , who was Al Rouse 's partner on K2 in 1986 and who , like him , so tragically died , managed an ascent of Lubyanka in conditions that could only be described as green . |
| 9 | The response could only be described as a God-send to a nation that had lost its way . |
| 10 | There a reception committee awaited her , at the head of which was a young man who could only be described as beautiful . |
| 11 | There remains , however , a wide range of views covering more obviously political aspects of the phenomena which could only be described together as ‘ elitist ’ if we accept that term as a residual category . |
| 12 | Looked at more closely still the dissolved athlete would become even more inscrutable than usual and could only be described with a set of equations which guessed where his component particles might be . |
| 13 | After what could only be described as a very spirited fight a small but brilliantly coloured koi of about 7lb came to the net and I remember looking at it with disbelief that such a small fish could have pulled so hard . |
| 14 | In Brighton at nine-thirty on this Tuesday morning in October , the singing could only be described as ‘ tentative ’ , not at all like the rendering of ‘ Land of Hope and Glory ’ which invariably follows upon the Leader 's speech on the Friday afternoon . |
| 15 | Shadow Environment Secretary Chris Smith said the government 's implementation of the EC Directive on Access to Environmental Information could only be described as " minimalist " , allowing companies maximum scope to claim commercial confidentiality . |
| 16 | The squad I ran became what can only be described as more ‘ disordered ’ and ‘ polluted ’ than had been the accepted norm , and we exhibited many verbal and nonverbal signals of this divergent nature . |
| 17 | Given the singularly uncertain nature of the ‘ military control ’ which British forces in fact exercised at the time , one can sympathize with Mr Dennis when he remarks that ‘ this display of self-assurance can only be described as breathtaking ’ . |
| 18 | It felt like it in the GLX , with what can only be described as feeble front-end grip , resulting in premature and excessive understeer . |
| 19 | At Love Field , a tin-pot airport outside Dallas , very late one night , he made what can only be described as a solicitation by prayer . |
| 20 | The village can only be described as picturesque , the core built in the 13th century has narrow and sometimes steep and winding cobblestone alleys . |
| 21 | I am running a 1986 V8 County 90 which at 25,000 miles has no more than normal backlash in the transmission line , yet a most irritating noise has developed which can only be described as a clunk that occurs whenever I apply or lift off the throttle in any gear . |
| 22 | It was two or three days earlier that I had made my appointment , and as luck so often has it , the due day arrived to what can only be described as ‘ one of those days ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It troubled me with what can only be described as the Idea of Autumn . |
| 25 | The Full Moon in your own birth sign on the 14th should certainly be an eye-opener for what can only be described as a partnership or marital affairs — and yet out of all this turmoil will come a new kind of happiness , serenity and security . |
| 26 | The paint was brushed on , rubbed down , another coat , another rub , until perhaps ten or twelve coats had been applied to give what can only be described as a wonderful finish . |
| 27 | A seven-year-old lovable imp turned overnight into what can only be described as a ‘ demon ’ . |
| 28 | On another page he included a picture of Mary that can only be described as erotic . |
| 29 | Their act , however , known as ‘ The Raging Rhinos ’ , can only be described as one of the seven sexless wonders of the world — definitely more comic than seductive ! |
| 30 | 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 . |