Example sentences of "[vb pp] as the only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally speaking the ‘ political ’ cure for inflation comprised some form of prices and incomes policy , and was regarded as the only alternative to the less palatable ‘ economic ’ cure of demand deflation . |
| 2 | Blessed with a talent considered sublime even in the cynical schools of northern England , Wattana is now regarded as the only player outside the leading ‘ gang of four ’ with the technique and temperament to survive 17 days in one of sport 's most demanding cauldrons . |
| 3 | Major changes in the way we conceptualize Nature certainly took place at this time , but historians now suspect that the emergence of Darwin 's theory should not be treated as the only watershed dividing the old way of thinking from the new . |
| 4 | The RAC Rally 's 16,000 miles of rutted and gravel tracks are far removed from McGuigan 's deafening fight nights in the mid-1980s , when he was applauded as the only man who could walk down the Falls and Shankhill Roads and be welcomed in both . |
| 5 | Therefore , what we are suggesting is not to be considered as the only way of " doing it right " . |
| 6 | Siobhan resents the fact that the mainstream broadcasting industry is presented as the only way of working . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And can we expect states to allow non-coercive jural agencies to gather information in an effective manner when this involves the divulgence of state secrets , even if this is seen as the only way to secure confidence in , for instance , disarmament treaties ? |
| 9 | Legislation clearly was seen as the only way to bring about that objective quickly . |
| 10 | Green activists have claimed that the Commission 's definition of development retains the mindset of the 1960s , when vast infrastructural improvement schemes were seen as the only way to improve depressed local economies . |
| 11 | The reason it ends up swallowing and eating everything is that it 's seen as the only choice . |
| 12 | The liberal-democratic constitution is seen as the only context and as the be-all-and-end-all of things so that the economic and societal context of power and the constraints which this imposes on Cabinet and Prime Minister alike are outside of the framework of serious consideration . |
| 13 | Increasingly it is seen as the only option left in the face of the continuing Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 14 | Kin altruism is not , however , seen as the only form of altruistic behaviour in which sociobiology sees people and animals engaging . |
| 15 | In spite of the number of old wives tales about lucerne , it can be fed as the only hay to a horse , and in fact it is often preferable to do so . |
| 16 | While the geographical map may be helpful to ensure a measure of blanket coverage , it can at the same time be very misleading if used as the only planning model . |
| 17 | In a collection of 446 patients angioplasty was used as the only therapy to open the vessel . |
| 18 | It should be recognised as the only organisation that the deaf mutes of the whole United Kingdom can look to as the protector of their interests , and they should have something they can depend upon . |
| 19 | There are no instant fixes , either in terms of an absolutist retreat to the class-based socialism of the past , or in a headlong rush to the classless social democracy that has so often been portrayed as the only future . |
| 20 | Salvidge of Liverpool was the best-known example , becoming chairman of the National Union in 1913 and often cited as the only party boss on the American model in English politics , but his authority in Liverpool was no greater than that of Sir James Oddy in Bradford or Sir Percy Woodhouse in Manchester . |
| 21 | Although many politicians have not been prepared to accept the thorough-going case for pricing advanced above , many have , under the practical pressure of public spending constraints , been prepared to accept charging as a supplementary way of raising revenue , or to see charges increased as the only way of preserving a service . |
| 22 | This war has to be explained in terms of the collapse of the old order — not simply in the sense that the United States was left as the only superpower , but in the more profound sense that the collapse of the old order has far-reaching consequences for American society and politics , that this war is a defensive reaction to the deep disturbance caused by the end of the cold war . |
| 23 | Was she going to be left as the only witness ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Although Keating , as Treasurer , was responsible for much of the current economic position — it was widely accepted that in 1987 he had allowed the economy to overheat , and had been forced to use high interest rates to cool it , thereby exacerbating the impact of the world recession — he was also widely perceived as the only Cabinet member with the experience and stature to provide an alternative to the leadership of Hawke . |
| 26 | Thinking to steal a march on watchful eyes I set off from the Cross Inn ( not long established as the only hotel and bar ) at 6.15 a.m. and headed for Port of Ness and the Butt of Lewis . |