Example sentences of "[be] the [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I am the only one who has n't had to pay any fines for not missing a tournament . |
| 2 | ‘ I am the only one who can help you , Ari . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Of all the people in my class at naval college I am the only one still in the service . ’ |
| 4 | I am the only one left in Baldersdale with Bayles blood in my veins . |
| 5 | ‘ It looks ’ , said the judge who was plainly captivated by the actress , ‘ as if I am the only one who would like to see Miss Collier again . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ How do you know I am the only one they targeted ? |
| 7 | It exists in three forms : expertise from experience ( ‘ I am the only one who has done this before ’ ) ; expertise based on knowledge ; and expertise based on a particular skill ( e.g. the surgeon , the programmer , the writer , the foreign exchange dealer ) . |
| 8 | I am the lightest one , you 're the heaviest |
| 9 | I am the great I am . |
| 10 | ‘ No I am the foolish one . |
| 11 | I am the last one to leave . |
| 12 | The woman had also been the nearest she could get to contrite about what had happened in her apartment . |
| 13 | When Niki said the Paris decision had been the right one , one knows two things about Niki that explain his position : first that any Ferrari driver has to speak through both sides of his mouth , and second , that even were that not so , there is nothing Niki likes as much as winding someone else up . |
| 14 | If the first of the two roads had been the right one to take , that would be an end of the matter . |
| 15 | Gorbachev had no doubt that the socialist choice in October 1917 had been the right one ; nor could Marx be blamed for subsequent developments he had obviously been unable to foresee . |
| 16 | It had been a difficult decision , but she was sure it had been the right one . |
| 17 | My first assessment had been the right one . |
| 18 | The decision , made six months ago , to uproot herself from England and move to the Algarve might not have been easy , but it had been the right one . |
| 19 | In the end it must have been the right one because I was the best of all and I you know until five minutes before everything finished I just could n't make up my mind |
| 20 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
| 21 | ‘ It must have been the other one ! |
| 22 | It must have been the other one . ’ |
| 23 | Traditionally it had been the poor who had deferred marriage until they could become independent in an economy of the margins , but the early impact of industrialisation appears to have broken the pattern . |
| 24 | But Sara 's idea had obviously been the better one , he told himself , though without believing a word of it , for where would they all be now without ‘ Mama 's business venture , ’ as his stepson warmly pointed out to him on a walk round the garden this afternoon . |
| 25 | I decided to give her Arsenicum Album LM1 in a 100ml bottle and within 1 month she was feeling much better , her period had been the best she could remember and she 'd even been out to a party . |
| 26 | Going back to my family now , I 've always been the black one of the family . |
| 27 | Newman came to the answer Rome ; the former friends he left behind in the Church of England replied that the early undivided Church had been the only one wholly to contain this supernatural essence . |
| 28 | And Robert Donat can not have been the only one who complained to Korda about a ‘ silly and unproductive attitude towards scripts ’ , which he credited as being at ‘ the root of the failure of so many British films . ’ |
| 29 | Here in particular one can find an increase which merely reflects new legislation affecting causes for divorce — for example , the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1937 which introduced desertion , cruelty and incurable insanity as further grounds for divorce , adultery having previously been the only one . |
| 30 | The unfairness of this strikes me , since although we are all from families that vote Labour ( no working-class Catholic would vote Unionist ) Jimmy had been the only one in the class who 'd known that Hugh Gaitskell was the leader of the Opposition in the general knowledge quiz . |