Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] as the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many teachers who feel that things are that bad , and for whom , at some tacit level of decision-making , becoming ‘ like that ’ has presented itself as the only sensible , or the only possible modus operandi that is left . |
| 2 | Antiracist orthodoxy now sees them as the only effective repositories of authentic black culture and as a guaranteed means to transmit all the essential skills that black children will need if they are to ‘ survive ’ in a racist society without psychological damage . |
| 3 | Describing himself as the only bishop born , ordained , and consecrated in Scotland , Ewing nonetheless found a solution to the troubles of the Episcopal Church in its future alignment with , or incorporation into , the Church of England . |
| 4 | However I shall publish them as the only amends I can make , if it were so . ’ |
| 5 | He imagines himself as the only adult in a large field of rye , standing by the edge of a cliff . |
| 6 | He saw himself as the only point of free will in the landscape before him , and if he could move his body with a purpose , then his mind would shake off the slough of misery and clear for action . |
| 7 | Franco , however , would not delegate because he saw himself as the only person capable of carrying out the mission of maintaining a united Spain . |
| 8 | He has always recognized the sweetness of an apple as a reason for choosing it , although a sinful one ; with the lapse of the standard which condemns it , it asserts itself as the only relevant consideration . |
| 9 | Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained . |
| 10 | He saw it as the only realistic long term solution to Selborne 's dilemma . |
| 11 | The Communists saw themselves as the only alternative to the Labour , Liberal and Conservative Parties . |
| 12 | But even if we allow that this can be a beneficial experience , we must question the wisdom of seeing it as the only valid way in which reading can be learned . |
| 13 | As evolutionists we are tempted to see it as the only kind of robustness that matters . |
| 14 | President of the Europe Commission , Jacques Delors , would like to see it as the only EC currency , but John Majors wants it to circulate alongside other currencies . |
| 15 | primitive people regarded themselves as the only humans . |
| 16 | Some merely regard their function as a necessary official procedure best conducted with the least possible fuss and difficulty , while others regard themselves as the only impartial authority capable of investigating a sequence of events involving fatality no matter how technically complicated it might be . |
| 17 | Before a non-dominant class can become the dominant class it has to ‘ give its ideas the form of universality and represent them as the only rational universally valid ones ’ ( Marx and Engels 1974 : 66 ) . |
| 18 | It obviously recognized him as the only being that had ever showed it kindness . |
| 19 | In fact , as things stand I see it as the only course for you to take … |