Example sentences of "only [noun] is that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My only worry is that the majority of your classes would be in French . |
| 2 | The only defence is that the estate agent took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence . |
| 3 | The only constraint is that the information is ‘ off the record ’ which means the source of the information must remain anonymous . |
| 4 | Perhaps the only disappointment is that the money is to be shared equally , when a winning bonus would give the event the edge it deserves . |
| 5 | Now , thanks in no small measure to his own contribution to the Hampshire cause , he has one ; and the only disappointment is that the climax of the match was watched by only about 8000 people , as the weather caused it to be carried over into the second day . |
| 6 | The only condition is that the driver has a clean licence and has the permission of the mobility supplement holder . |
| 7 | Often the only result is that the application will run slow but sometimes it will crash . |
| 8 | Asterix inhabits a world of childlike innocence , peopled with characters such as Getafix , the venerable village Druid , Caco-fonix the bard and Vitalstatistix the brave chieftain , whose only fear is that the sky may fall on his head . |
| 9 | My only regret is that the college is not able to take more of my hon. Friend 's constituents . |
| 10 | If animals , particularly mature birds and the higher mammals , are taken as possessing more or less the full range of human capacities , with the exception perhaps of moral agency , and if the only dissimilarity is that the capacities are manifested in more limited ways , then there will be an almost irresistible temptation to give them moral status approaching that of recently discovered Stone Age tribes such as the Dani of Irian Jaya . |
| 11 | The only difference is that the work simply does not get published . |
| 12 | ‘ We are not getting paranoid about it because the only difference is that the keeper ca n't pick the ball up . |
| 13 | For us , the only difference is that the barriers which we have to address are dissimilar to those faced by able-bodied people . |
| 14 | The only difference is that the problem solver searches in the combined set R u R2 for a pair ( I' , J' ) with I' closest to I. |
| 15 | The only difference is that the slope of the worst case is rather steeper than the slope of the best . |
| 16 | The only difference is that the investment is consumer-led . |
| 17 | The only stipulation is that the topic must have some relationship to business activity or current affairs . |
| 18 | The only drawback is that the files must either have a common format , in which case you can use the X-modem transfer method , or be in ASCII . |
| 19 | My only niggle is that the seams on the top of the shoulder are quite prominent and uncomfortable . |
| 20 | His only proviso is that the work be carried out in Padua , not at the Istituto Centrale del Restauro . |
| 21 | The only proviso is that the politicians have to be asked first . |
| 22 | His only complaint is that the technique is so simple that other researchers will be able to duplicate it quickly enough to keep up with his group . |
| 23 | My only comment is that the Quarterly has done it again . |
| 24 | The only oddity is that the debt does not yet exist , and will only arise if the beneficiary enters Gaius Seius ' estate and thus becomes liable to pay the testator a sum of money . |
| 25 | The only significance is that the child is given the name Jesus , which means ‘ God is salvation ’ . |
| 26 | The only thing is that the VIP treatment ( with ritual speeches , etc. ) sometimes gets a bit wearing and we sometimes have to keep a very straight face when the same political points are made to us over and over again by this or that party cadre when we go on official visits . |
| 27 | The only certainty is that the eclipse of the pollsters , and — by implication — all of us in the media who focus so much attention upon their findings , is a happy outcome for democracy . |
| 28 | But whatever happens , the only certainty is that the crags will never change . |
| 29 | The only problem is that the number of treatment combinations resulting is usually considerable so that large blocks must be tolerated or confounding introduced . |
| 30 | The only problem is that the ground now might well have gone against this horse . |