Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] only [be] describe " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Of all the films Ocean might 've obtained the licence to , they chose one that could only be described as mediocre . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On another page he included a picture of Mary that can only be described as erotic . |
| 5 | He looks at me hard and says in a voice that can only be described as arch , ‘ Do you mean do I cry when I see children with flies round their eyes ? |
| 6 | Today the Fellowships have many members who have made recoveries that can only be described as miraculous . |
| 7 | 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 . |