Example sentences of "only [noun] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Byron 's is not the only ghost to be detected here : the cold hearts of his precursors Lovelace and Laclos 's Valmont are present in Pechorin , who has succeeded in attracting a certain princess . |
| 2 | Rugby League : Iro offers the only reasons to be cheerful |
| 3 | ‘ You ca n't deny that the only advantage to be gained is on your side , ’ Travis countered coldly . |
| 4 | Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community . |
| 5 | The only decision to be made is the number of copies , which no doubt rests as much upon the price of the book and the size of the university 's bookfund as upon quality factors . |
| 6 | He enjoyed talking about art with Rodrigo and , respecting his resoluteness ( it was said of him that he was the only Sohoite to be arrested for being drunk and orderly ) , asked him to act , with Anthony Lousada , as his executor . |
| 7 | Is that the only correction to be made to table nine ? |
| 8 | If the contractual measure of damage was the only measure to be applied the Vendor could argue that the value of the Business was not necessarily reduced by the full amount of the undisclosed liability . |
| 9 | ‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny . |
| 10 | It 's appropriate to end this review of cricketing Olympians with Australia , for the Australians staged the only Olympics to be held on a first-class cricket ground . |
| 11 | Street robbery was not the only crime to be viewed leniently in the interwar years . |
| 12 | Al Capone need not be the only gangster to be caught out on his tax returns . |
| 13 | The only old-timer to be pensioned-off appears to be Mick Skinner , and that was someone else 's decision , not his . |
| 14 | But when she pushed open the door and walked out on to the terrace the only car to be seen was their family-sized four-door saloon hired from Pisa airport . |
| 15 | So they entered the cheerful portals of the Jade Cockatoo , the only cafe to be found in Chetwynd , and threaded their way through a maze of small tables to an alcove by the fire , where they took off their soaking mackintoshes and warmed their hands . |
| 16 | The ultimate logic of this view is the abolition of standing rules : the only question to be answered on this approach concerns the merits of the arguments about illegality . |
| 17 | This implies that the problem of the selection of the risky securities to include in the investor 's portfolio has been solved and the only question to be answered is whether to lend or borrow , and how much to lend or borrow . |
| 18 | Everything was bathed in a faded golden glow , and the only noises to be heard were the rustle of trees , the birds , and the occasional car chugging past . |
| 19 | Sites of cancer — Kidney cancer was the only type to be significantly increased ( table VI ) . |
| 20 | It is the Armenians who live in what is left of the Armenian Republic — in the Soviet Republic of the same name — who perhaps have the only fragile opportunity of one day restoring their nation ; just as the Arab inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are now the only Palestinians to be able to fight with any effect for their statehood . |
| 21 | Lush , however , are in a celebratory mood — we were the only band to be paid and boasted all night that we 'd actually headlined Lollapalooza . |
| 22 | They were not the only retailers to be bankers as well . |
| 23 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 24 | We stopped off at Nonza where the only sound to be heard in the morning air was children singing . |
| 25 | As the dawn patrol began the first of their two qualifying rounds from which 64 players will move into the match play stage the only sound to be heard was the twittering of larks overhead . |
| 26 | It consisted mainly of a large area of more or less flat heathland that was in places marshy and out of which rose the only hill to be found here , the broad , low Knamber Foin that looked from a distance no more than a heap of stones . |
| 27 | The only silk to be had |
| 28 | He found that the only period to be consistent with rational expectations was from 1962 to 1969 . |
| 29 | Without dependence upon rectal intercourse having taken place , the gonococcus will be found in the rectum of 40 per cent of women who have gonorrhoea ; and in 5 per cent it will be the only site to be involved by the infection . |
| 30 | In the only match to be played in Area 2 , Norman Green Solihull made dramatic headway , shooting up the table from fifth to third place , following their first win of the season against Corby . |