Example sentences of "only [noun] that [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the only sheep that can stand it . |
| 2 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 3 | If that was the only place that would take him , that was where he would go , said the King . |
| 4 | It is very important to make the point that we are not interested in all aspects of a speaker 's pitch ; the only things that should interest us are those which carry some linguistic information . |
| 5 | You have to take the risk of describing the doorknob , or the little country shop , because they may be the only details that can take you in — into the strange and wonderful labyrinth that is your writer-self . |
| 6 | From Ainhoa the only road that will keep you on the French side of the Pyrenees runs more or less north-east , back towards Espelette . |
| 7 | ‘ Hunger ’ was the only word that would describe it . |
| 8 | The only thing that 'll touch it is an arc-welder — and it 's pretty conductive stuff too . |
| 9 | ‘ The only thing that might make them move after three years here is Italy . |
| 10 | The only thing that would change them , he commented savagely , was when he became someone who earned a thousand guilder a year . |
| 11 | Isabel had scarcely felt the fiery rush of blood to her cheeks , the quick involuntary swelling of her flesh , before fitzAlan wrenched his hand away , transferring the reins from the other as if that was the only thing that would prevent him from touching her again . |
| 12 | He said it was the only thing that would get him through it . ’ |
| 13 | The only thing that would save him would be work abroad . |
| 14 | Crystals is about the only thing that would use it . |
| 15 | The only thing that could get one down — as it eventually did his American television followers — was his high-pitched , breathless , Scots delivery . |
| 16 | A soak in a hot tub , brimming with scented foam , was about the only thing that could soothe her wounded spirits . |
| 17 | ‘ We know the operation is the only thing that will make her quality of life better . |
| 18 | The only thing that will make them change their attitudes will be knowing someone with AIDS and watching them decline . |
| 19 | It is the only thing that will stir out sleeping brethren , the only thing that will make them fight and not cooperate . |
| 20 | In the vocabulary of people in the retail trade , equipment means wallets being emptied into tills , especially if the purchase of that equipment is the only thing that will ensure they will live to come back and buy more . |
| 21 | ‘ It is the only thing that will defend us in the present crisis , ’ says Reddy . |
| 22 | You will have to think : the only thing that will get you by in life is your mind because you are not presentable in any other way . |
| 23 | And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves . ’ |
| 24 | The only thing that will release us is the thing that imprisoned us . |
| 25 | He told The Scotsman the other day , ’ the only thing that can stop us is the Labour party . ’ |
| 26 | There is a lot to do and we are the only generation that can do it . |
| 27 | Asked about Sun 's continued support of USL , McNealy said , ‘ Sun is the only company that can engineer its way out of any operating system royalty in a year or two . |
| 28 | Virgin were the only company that could pull him out of the hole , and it was to Virgin that McLaren now turned , cap in hand . |