Example sentences of "[noun] of [Wh det] [modal v] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lyrical Ballads nevertheless remains a very strange publication , the full effect of which can only be appreciated by studying a facsimile edition , or one of the reprints of the first edition . |
| 2 | In the meantime , of course , he had become a Schopenhauerian , the relevant effect of which can only have been to confirm the validity of his preoccupation with music and his suspicion of the new musical idiom . |
| 3 | My own family was at once strongly nuclear and part of what can only be called a clan . |
| 4 | Sequent has re-engineered NT 's Hardware Abstraction Layer ( HAL ) specifically for the WinServer , copies of which will only be available from the Beaverton , Oregon-based company . |
| 5 | Those poor children in the Cairngorms had just been recovered from the clutches of what can only be described as moronic supervisors . |
| 6 | On behalf of the Opposition , and indeed the whole House , I wish to express our sympathy to the victims and their families of what can only be described as a crime against humanity . |
| 7 | He was a great Wotan and Hans Sachs of his time , but he assumed many more characters , as this disc sketches in , by means of what can only be called ‘ random ’ arias . |
| 8 | And now there was the loud crashing retort of what could only be a pistol shot , joined immediately by the rattling , roaring sound of thunder in the sky . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly therefore , the results of the 1983 survey show that mass unemployment ‘ has created a serious new risk of what can only be regarded as downward social mobility — and that risk is much greater for men in working class positions , by whatever route they come into them , than it is for others ’ ( p. 17 ) . |
| 10 | It is with great sadness that I write this letter having been informed of the possible demise of what can only be the most important publication since the Dead Sea Scrolls . |
| 11 | Standard hierarchical models , however , allow too little interaction between the knowledge sources : within a strictly hierarchical system , one can not interleave the processes associated with each different level of knowledge , and hence one can not allow the very early filtering out by higher-level components of what might only be partial analyses at lower levels . |
| 12 | Even well-established commercial farmers are finding themselves on a cruel treadmill of soaring capital investment , the financing of which can only be serviced by increasing mortgages based on the rising cost of land . |
| 13 | If the Walled Garden and Garden Cottage were to be transferred to the ownership of Oatridge Agricultural because of the previous set out in the above piece of legislation this would have very serious consequences to the capital value of what can only be described as the department 's most valued property asset . |
| 14 | The difference between Figures 2 and 3 is probably not important , each being just a different representation of what can only be a pale reflection of the true state of affairs , just as any illustration of the body 's organs is but a poor reflection of its true inner workings . |
| 15 | And in pursuit of that perspective , that outlook the Communist Party launched a series of what can only be described as ad adventurist er attacks on the new Kuomintang authorities . |