Example sentences of "only [vb infin] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face , less hollowed and drawn already than her first impression of it , possessed a quality in repose she could only describe as beauty , of a very virile , masculine variety . |
| 2 | ‘ And that from an Aussie ? ’ she was startled into answering , then went pink when he gave her a look of what she could only describe as approval . |
| 3 | The attendance of a member at a meeting of a committee or subcommittee of the local authority is regarded as attendance at a meeting of the authority , but attendance at a meeting of a joint committee , joint board or other body will only count as attendance at a meeting of the authority when any functions of the local authority have been transferred or delegated to those bodies . |
| 4 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 5 | The kind of satisfaction which can be anxiety-free is that in which my own creative powers and understanding of the world around me are at a maximum and this is satisfaction which the individual can only achieve as part of a community of persons directed at these ends . |
| 6 | Speaker 1 could then accommodate by using that variant back to speaker 2 : though this would only appear as convergence where speaker 1 would " normally " use that variant less than speaker 2 . |
| 7 | In many areas , elephant conservation will only succeed as part of a wider programme to protect a whole environment . |
| 8 | POU family proteins may not only function as transcription factors . |
| 9 | The intention was that the College should benefit the economy , but this could only happen as science replaced practice , and as those with a real knowledge and love of chemistry began to apply it . |
| 10 | A general in the regular army , he could only serve as lieutenant-colonel of the Sussex militia . |
| 11 | While the Faculty encourages all those interested in these research degrees to apply , it will only accept as research students those who wish to work in an area in which the Faculty can provide supervision and has basic materials . |