Example sentences of "only as a [adj] " 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 | ‘ Only as a capable and speedy craftsman could one survive in that feverish and restless environment . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | An unchanged cabinet had been widely expected , but only as a temporary measure because of the uncertainty caused by the courts . |
| 5 | An unchanged cabinet had been widely expected , but only as a temporary measure because of the uncertainty caused by the courts . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was almost going to join prior to leaving England , but only as a conditional member . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Marcellus is presented as the model of the old Roman , and his philhellenism is mentioned only as a political attitude ( fr. 43 Jacoby ) . |
| 11 | only as a flickering third companion |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Americans looked upon Britain not only as a poor relation , ignoring the causes of her poverty , but a dangerous one as well . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Since nodding can be described only as a formless act , clearly the civil law had no interest in it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This can serve not only as a useful means of cost control but it also ensures that the client is not left until the end of the design stage without any information about the type of building which ultimately will be provided . |
| 21 | She should have laughed and snuggled and taken kissing only as a passing pleasure . |
| 22 | ‘ What Souness has said will act only as a greater incentive for us in the replay at Selhurst Park . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It took several layers of slightly thinned fold acrylic paint to get the effect I wanted , then , as the final touch , I worked over the parts I have previously painted red , now visible only as a dull tonal value within the fold , using well thinned films of the different pearlescent colours . |
| 27 | For whereas a subordinate rule of a system may be valid and in that sense ‘ exist ’ even if it is generally disregarded , the rule of recognition exists only as a complex , but normally concordant , practice of the courts , officials , and private persons in identifying the law by reference to certain criteria . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 " . |
| 30 | 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 . |