Example sentences of "only [noun sg] [prep] the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other research does n't attract private money … the Daresbury Laboratory near Manchester is the only lab in the country for nuclear research … but that 's closing at the end of the year . |
| 2 | They are the only band in the country who have anything positive to say . |
| 3 | The 1,000-strong Congress , which was meeting for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union , is the only body in the country that can change the constitution and other basic laws . |
| 4 | Kirkbymoorside deserves sympathy for having lost its status as the only town in the country to have so far escaped the painter 's handiwork . |
| 5 | Easy though it is to criticize Positive Images ' theoretical short-comings , the fact is that this was almost the only group in the country that was addressing these issues at all . |
| 6 | Another first for Leese was that Stamford was the only place in the country where Fascists fought and won an election , for in contesting an election Leese broke the cardinal rule of the British Fascists never to intervene in the despised democratic system . |
| 7 | The Cairngorms are the only place in the country where you can see reindeer in the wild |
| 8 | The city is the only place in the country where 11 to 16 year olds are studying Japanese under the national curriculum . |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) is apparently the only person in the country who does not yet believe that the minimum wage would cost a substantial number of jobs if it were implemented . |
| 10 | You 're the only person in the country who has n't seen Marathon Man ! |
| 11 | The southern California air basin is the only area in the country that still fails to meet the nitrogen dioxide standard . |
| 12 | Kelly said : ‘ I must be the only manager in the country who is cheesed off that his side are still in the FA Cup . |
| 13 | St Mary 's Church at Fairford in Gloucestershire , is the only parish in the country to have a complete set of late medieval stained glass windows . |
| 14 | Nursing staff at the famous Beeson Ward had hoped for a last minute reprieve , but the Health Authority stuck by its decision to close down the only ward in the country where nurses , not doctors , have the responsibility for admitting and discharging patients . |
| 15 | Now Buckinghamshire is the only county in the country still under Conservative control . |
| 16 | You must be the only MP in the country that has n't had fathers coming to you . |
| 17 | Recognising the quality of our career development programmes , the Department of employment chose Sainsbury 's to be the only employer in the country to pilot the new career guidance vouchers through the Choices programme . |
| 18 | It is typical of this Tory government , a government that has not had a constructive idea all the time it has been in office , but thinks that union bashing is the only answer to the country 's problems , that thinks it is the only way to unite the Tory troops . |
| 19 | Nor are all bruises evidence of battering : I have vivid memories of my own older daughter 's accident-proneness in her earlier years ( she is possibly the only individual in the country to have given herself two black eyes by collision with a holy-water stoup ! ) and on one or two occasions her appearance would inevitably , today , have landed her on the " At risk " register . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're not the only prison in the country that 's overcrowded . ’ |
| 21 | CHEERFUL Crayford is the only track in the country which plays to packed houses . |