Example sentences of "[adj] as only a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shared a compartment with a tanned young man , blond as only a Swede can be , in wire-rimmed glasses and a pony-tail , who was returning to Göteborg from Algeciras , where he had been visiting a girlfriend , as he put it . |
| 2 | He was , I think , even more solipsistic than I was : self-centred as only a man constrained within his own view of what constituted his masculinity could be . |
| 3 | There was certainly no repeat of the violent confrontations which marred the last Springboks ' tour in 1970 as only a group of about 70 chanting protesters stood outside the ground . |
| 4 | And then , when I put the phone down again , it resumes its full natural flow , inside my head instead of outside , as perfectly articulate and well-modulated as only a voice inside one 's head has a chance to be . |
| 5 | Again he saw the thing divide and grow and change , like the ever-evolving pattern in a kaleidoscope , but this thing was real , alive as alive as only a thing whose sole purpose was to kill could be . |