Example sentences of "[verb] what [modal v] only [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After lunch on the Sunday before his Chanel show , eaten with his workroom staff and assistants in the workers ' canteen on the top floor of the rue Cambon , Lagerfeld holds what can only be described as an old-fashioned levée . |
| 2 | Terse , poignant , and well made , it says what could only be said in poetry . |
| 3 | But she sees him suppress what could only be a smirk at her very mention of a dybbuk . |
| 4 | The philosopher Mark Johnson has recently produced what can only be called a constructivist account of linguistic meaning and reasoning . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was joy for QE1 player Davy Clements who knocked in a 100 clearance in his B Division match against Centre Spot 's Mal Aiken while in the A Division Ballygomartin 's Billy Millar potted what can only be described as a wonder blue , pink and then missed a straight black for a similar break . |
| 7 | However , the Sports Council for Wales is taking what can only be described as a very aggressive approach to this and a number of other sensitive recreation/environment issues at present . |
| 8 | Stone floor panels dating from 883–612BC , uncovered in the Assyrian royal palaces at Nimrud , Balawat and Nineveh , contain patterns that are generally accepted as carpet designs ; thee are also a number of reliefs and carvings showing men carrying what can only be tapestries or rugs . |
| 9 | In historical studies the actual quotation from the appropriate Act of Parliament or the speech from Hansard or the letter from the collected correspondence may be the vital piece of information which needs to be placed in its right position to fill in a sort of jigsaw pattern which gives what can only be the one consistent answer . |
| 10 | Elsewhere the band choose what can only be called a hardcore bubblegum sound and by the time you get to the final furlong , this regularity means the fizz is starting to fade and you dearly want the guitars to twist and shout and sing . |
| 11 | They also seemed to have what could only be snorkeling devices on the tops of their heads . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change . |