Example sentences of "only [noun] is that the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 For us , the only difference is that the barriers which we have to address are dissimilar to those faced by able-bodied people .
3 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 .
4 My only niggle is that the seams on the top of the shoulder are quite prominent and uncomfortable .
5 The only proviso is that the politicians have to be asked first .
6 But whatever happens , the only certainty is that the crags will never change .
7 The only quibble is that the materials of Vic 's erotic dream about Robyn - in which she splashes with nymphs in a pool before firing an arrow — are a bit literary .
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