Example sentences of "only [noun] [pron] can [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , the only committee which can over-ride it , is this one . |
| 2 | The only erm exception and that 's not even in your price structure , is that if somebody says , Look is there any chance I can have colour , that 's the only place they can have it on the back copy back cover sorry . |
| 3 | The person who issued it is the only person who can change it . ’ |
| 4 | He is the only person who can make it possible for us to become ourselves — to become a true person in an impersonal world . |
| 5 | And the only person who can disprove it is Puddephat himself . |
| 6 | They see the child as basically a , a little animal , a wild animal , who has to be tamed , and er , disciplined and controlled by er , various means , and er , this is the , I think the view of the child that was more popular in British education , at least traditional education , which erm , for the public schools of Eton , which in this country was based on er , on er brutality , I think there 's the only word you can call it . |
| 7 | and the only thing that they 've done is if you kiss somebody , kissing someone whatever you know , erm or someone 's dirty and that is the only thing they can put it down |
| 8 | The only way you can do it at any particular point that 's the trouble . |
| 9 | trained and nevertheless it is a disturbing thing and the development of this County has to do , not only with businesses succeeding and also with people who are actually making those businesses work and the only way you can do it is by having people employed doing useful things . |
| 10 | The bit where he like jumping on the lake they 've cut away a bit of the platform so the only way you can do it is jump onto this bit of wood then fly , and literally he was like that , just going in mid air and landed right in the water ! |
| 11 | It 's the only way you can do it . |
| 12 | The only way you can do it is by pleading . |
| 13 | No no it is n't the only way you can do it . |
| 14 | Yep , I agree , exactly and that 's the only way you can do it cos then you , you do n't get any problems that the call 's been er interacting |
| 15 | exactly , it 's the only way you can do it and I would n't do it any other way , because I do n't bel I do n't , I do n't think it 's fair , if I was using the phone continually I 'd get rather annoyed , I mean that I 'd , they 'd have a right to be annoyed , but as I do n't I think it 's ridiculous so I 'm not hardly surprised at all , so I think it 's stupid as you say , but there you go . |
| 16 | you take it out their bank accounts , you , that 's the only way you can do it , we do n't give them pocket money , that 's the only way you can do it , |
| 17 | you take it out their bank accounts , you , that 's the only way you can do it , we do n't give them pocket money , that 's the only way you can do it , |
| 18 | The only way you can stop it is putting a dummy in it 's mouth ! |
| 19 | The only way you can justify it is by saying it 's a means to an end . |
| 20 | The only way you can get it |
| 21 | There may only be one ground for divorce — irretrievable breakdown — but the only way you can prove it is by proving you 've got one of five grounds going for you : |
| 22 | The only way he can justify it to himself , is the belief that otherwise the animal would have had a miserable life . |
| 23 | When I first joined Fleetwood Mac , Mick ( Fleetwood ) kept trying to get me to use a pick , but fingerpicking is the only way I can do it . ’ |
| 24 | That 's the only way I can see it . |
| 25 | . Yeah that 's the only way I can see it trying to use those and have them back on Friday . . |
| 26 | Older , of course , and more grown up is the only way I can describe it . ’ |
| 27 | I want a shot at the world title and the only way I can get it , is to beat Frank on Saturday night and that 's what I 'm here for . |
| 28 | The only way I can remember it , that way round . |
| 29 | I 've seen enough violence in my life to know the only way I can deal it out is in sudden fast dollops — a well-aimed kick or punch , a gun if I have to . |
| 30 | A purely syntactically ill-formed sentence , on the other hand , is irredeemably deviant , and the only contexts which can accommodate it are those which induce a tolerance for grammatical incompetence or , at any rate , nonconformity : |