Example sentences of "not [verb] to be the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | But over time , the industry has adjusted and farmers there can not claim to be the only farmers in the developed world farming and exporting without the benefit of subsidies . |
| 2 | It looked very probable that the ball was not going to be the only thing to rise in the air — Mafouz himself , Robert felt , was about to climb up like a helicopter , clear of the grass , and hover over Wimbledon . |
| 3 | Caroline felt her flush deepening , but she was not going to be the only one under attack here . |
| 4 | Yes , yes , but that 's not going to be the only one , as I understand it . |
| 5 | It does not have to be the only thing which persuaded him to do so but it does have to have been a factor in influencing him . |
| 6 | This is not meant to be the only way of constructing your opening paragraph . |
| 7 | The construction of that generality does not pretend to be the only possible one — the same event could operate in all sorts of different ways in different series , temporalities , which would mean that , strictly speaking , it was no longer the same event , for it would have been dispersed in their different rarefactions . |