Example sentences of "only as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the daylong scream of the gulls was silent in here , and the hooters and sound signals arrived only as a distant complaint . |
| 2 | As long as Kristeva 's third stage is present in our thinking only as a Utopian dream , feminists can not simply refuse to get involved in this endless discourse of difference ; people who claim that this is a postfeminist era are living in a dream world . |
| 3 | An unchanged cabinet had been widely expected , but only as a temporary measure because of the uncertainty caused by the courts . |
| 4 | An unchanged cabinet had been widely expected , but only as a temporary measure because of the uncertainty caused by the courts . |
| 5 | Perhaps recognising the risk , Malaysia has used tariffs only as a temporary form of protection for the first-comer investor in certain sectors , like television sets . |
| 6 | At times he was so dogmatic that I wanted to laugh , to behave in the traditionally xenophobic , continentals-despising way of my race ; at times , rather against my will , he impressed me — not only as a rich man with some enviable works of art in his house . |
| 7 | I was almost going to join prior to leaving England , but only as a conditional member . |
| 8 | Just short of the Cherwell , however , the line of the road disappears from the 1-inch map , and to the west of the river for many miles it can be followed only as a continuous hedge-line , a field-path , and a bit of lane here and there . |
| 9 | Marcellus is presented as the model of the old Roman , and his philhellenism is mentioned only as a political attitude ( fr. 43 Jacoby ) . |
| 10 | And she had seen his picture in trade papers and yachting magazines , usually alongside an article extolling his brilliance , not only as a prizewinning designer in the highly competitive world of trans-ocean racing , but also as a respected if demanding skipper . |
| 11 | Americans looked upon Britain not only as a poor relation , ignoring the causes of her poverty , but a dangerous one as well . |
| 12 | In 1921 , The Waste Land clearly on his mind , Eliot complained that the anti-Georgian poets were ‘ mostly such as could imagine the Last Judgment only as a lavish display of Bengal lights , Roman candles , catherine-wheels , and inflammable fire-balloons . |
| 13 | In other instances this form of bargaining structure might prevail only as a second-best option because of the union 's inability to organise the total product market — a necessary condition for the enforcement of industry-wide bargaining . |
| 14 | With his fair hair , the stubble on his chin showed only as a slight blurring of the normally sharp jawline , but the rest of his face was a bruise of tiredness and strain . |
| 15 | Since nodding can be described only as a formless act , clearly the civil law had no interest in it . |
| 16 | Hence the need to stress at the outset that Nizan 's adult development can be correctly understood only as a deep involvement in the communist party , a process of attraction-repulsion in which Nizan was both deeply committed to and deeply compromised by the party itself . |
| 17 | Even where he does show an interest in ‘ education ’ it is , as we have seen , only as a preventive device aimed at the public at large . |
| 18 | She should have laughed and snuggled and taken kissing only as a passing pleasure . |
| 19 | ‘ What Souness has said will act only as a greater incentive for us in the replay at Selhurst Park . ’ |
| 20 | Or , it might be added if we wish to consider history rather than geography , medieval Europeans represented women as sexually insatiable , while the Victorians represented them as naturally frigid , engaging in sex only as a marital duty . |
| 21 | They believe that only as a free-standing business will SAP be able to hold its own against the competition — particularly with world demand for soda ash growing at less than one per cent a year . |
| 22 | On Jan. 16 he called again for an intensification of the armed struggle , but on Jan. 18 he reportedly told the executive council meeting that currently " we do not have the capacity within our country to intensify the armed struggle in any meaningful way " , that the ANC must " begin without delay to prepare our negotiating position " , and that in the event of its being unbanned it would have to decide whether to operate only as a legal movement or , alternatively , to maintain underground units . |
| 23 | Those who knew him only as a fellow undergraduate would have been still more surprised by his degree result had they known the extent of his other activities . |
| 24 | In He will sing tomorrow , " singing tomorrow " is in relation with the subject in the present , but only as a probable potential : " he " is represented as subject to certain conditions in the present ( his time-table , his own will ) which make his singing tomorrow predictable : in a way , one could say that right now he is represented as a " probable tomorrow-singer " . |
| 25 | In light of these passages from other poems , Mopsus can be seen not only as a pastoral retreat from ambition , but also a firm recognition of the hazards of patronage . |
| 26 | He said he was in contact with the Chief Constable of Warrington who told him that the Ball family would welcome him at the funeral , but only as a private individual . |
| 27 | In fact , the ‘ language ’ is not of use per se to public sector accountants anywhere else in the world , excepting only as a necessary precondition to understanding the intricacies of US practice . |
| 28 | God is permitted only as a verifiable divinity who gets extremely cross at man 's transgressions . |
| 29 | But Living Wills should be regarded only as a general indication of our wishes . |
| 30 | The list given here is intended only as a general guide . |