Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Al-Haroun , when confronted , was as gently apologetic as only a well-bred Arab can be when confronted by an angry occidental . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was as simple as only a barefaced lie could be . |
| 4 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 5 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |
| 6 | The fire which had started early that morning must have been very fierce as only the walls were left standing and from the ruins there was that horrible fire-damp smell which pervades the site for weeks after such an occurrence . |