Example sentences of "as the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly it is seen as the only option left in the face of the continuing Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 2 | Calvin viewed his interpretation of the function of the state as the only Christian one . |
| 3 | As the only catering industry representative on this working party , I would be interested to hear from any companies which have any experience , or knowledge of any examples , which make them feel that this is an area that needs to be examined quickly and subjected to public debate . |
| 4 | It 's a well-founded faith he has developed since Michelin this year singled him out as the only French chef worthy of upgrading to the coveted three-star accolade . |
| 5 | Even Paddington 's platform ends were given supports for overhead electrification when the Lawn was extended to accommodate a shopping centre , leaving Marylebone as the only other London terminus yet to see electric activity . |
| 6 | In the last , MacMillan 's choreography makes Bratfisch , the prince 's coachman , appear as the only sympathetic yet helpless onlooker at the sordid proceedings . |
| 7 | He is there as the only one who fully understands the problems of both Elgar and his Wife , but plays no part in the other activities . |
| 8 | Inevitability , at once psychological and religious , enters ( so the letter goes on ) after the crime has been committed , in the shape of ‘ the truth of God and the law of nature ’ which compel Raskolnikov first to be exiled from the humanity he has outraged , and then to confess and accept the public consequences of confession as the only way to become a man among men again . |
| 9 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 10 | As the only boat in Division C she wins that but is also expected to take the joint C and D prize . |
| 11 | When he won yesterday 's NM Financial International , the Dutchman was left as the only rider who is still in with a chance of winning this special prize . |
| 12 | This operation was carried out as the only possible way of dealing with the menace of the drug dealers . |
| 13 | Should doctors always be so keen to offer abortion as the only solution to women who are in the first throes of disappointment and depression at the news that their baby is not genetically perfect ? |
| 14 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 15 | If he does , he will join former England man John Dean as the only person to ever win the award twice . |
| 16 | You commit yourself to long-term help as the only way to promote real change . |
| 17 | A badly-planned script , by contrast , necessarily leads to a badly-organized film , and the only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because so much seems to be going on during the shooting stage — money is spent , crowds of extras run in front of the cameras , tempers become heated and everybody becomes very tired — that the person trying to control this chaos appears to the casual observer as the only significant creative force . |
| 18 | Commentators said Mr Egon Krenz , the new party leader and head of state , and the politburo would now have to act swiftly to call free elections as the only way out of the crisis . |
| 19 | The French have tended to exploit a philosophical idea of reconciliation as the only way of restoring German acceptability inside Western Europe . |
| 20 | Free elections , which could result in the Communist Party being reduced to playing a junior role , are seen as the only realistic way forward to end East Germany 's political and economic crisis . |
| 21 | As the only no-strike nurses union , it had often been accused of being a Government ‘ lackey ’ . |
| 22 | It is hardly surprising , in such a climate , that Israeli ‘ moderates ’ , like their Palestinian counterparts , should now look so earnestly to the third party , the US , as the only possible way of saving Israel from itself . |
| 23 | She had been utterly secure in her position as the only girl in the Wilson family and now there was another one . |
| 24 | Every Defence White Paper to this day has stressed the importance the British Government attaches to the achievement of a comprehensive nuclear and conventional force disarmament package as the only alternative to nuclear deterrence . |
| 25 | He is seen as the only man who can keep the peace between those who want to slow the pace of reform and those who want to speed it up . |
| 26 | This perceptive study makes it clear that Thomas refused to accept the ‘ morbidity of temperament ’ as the only key to understanding the man . |
| 27 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
| 28 | He regarded posterity as the only afterlife worth contemplating and , to show his contempt for the resurrection of the body , he left his to be dissected — a bold gesture that his contemporaries were slow to follow — and his reconstituted skeleton was exhibited in University College , London . |
| 29 | But Moses does not show much faith in God 's willingness to fulfil her duties , and sees death as the only way to find release from his burdens . |
| 30 | These rules were modified by reform Judaism in modern times and , to a lesser extent , by conservative Judaism , but remain in full force for the orthodox , the group that predominates as the only legitimate expression of Judaism in the present State of Israel . |