Example sentences of "can only [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that I 've just got too many at , it can only be done a week before |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The philosopher Mark Johnson has recently produced what can only be called a constructivist account of linguistic meaning and reasoning . |
| 4 | My own family was at once strongly nuclear and part of what can only be called a clan . |
| 5 | In what can only be considered a plan of Baldrickian cunning , not only will the Board 's coffers be groaning with the weight of money but — and here is the really clever part — fewer people than ever will now be able to observe what a mess the game is really in . |
| 6 | In what can only be considered a plan of Baldrickian cunning , not only will the Board 's coffers be groaning with the weight of money but — and here is the really clever part — fewer people than ever will now be able to observe what a mess the game is really in . |