Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be the only " in BNC.
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| 31 | Honey had been the only sweetener ; sugar had been as expensive as cinnamon or cloves and it could be taxed as a luxury in the firm belief that this would not make life harder for the working classes who were not thought to be consumers of sugar , though this was clearly changing in the eighteenth century . |
| 32 | Faith had been the only sister to visit regularly , for Isabel and Kathleen were afraid , afraid of sickness and infirmity , of germs and ill-health and old age and death . |
| 33 | However , the ability to jump was the only pleasant aspect of Mildred 's new condition and a sudden , hot wave of panic seized her . |
| 34 | Until recently , surgery has been the only effective management for Dieulafoy 's lesions . |
| 35 | Firstly , the topping up mechanism while it is geared to ability to pay is the only own resource precisely defined in this way . |
| 36 | Since 1980 the Standard had been the only survivor of the flourishing trio in 1945 . |
| 37 | If the Revenue accept that the court order or agreement between the parties created a settlement on the ground that the interests of the beneficiaries are not of the same quality as the wife has a right of occupation ( see Booth v Ellard [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1443 ) Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act , 1992 , s225 provides that the gain accruing to a trustee on the disposal of settled property shall in effect be free from capital gains tax where during the period of ownership the house has been the only or main residence of the person entitled to occupy it under the terms of the settlement . |
| 38 | In the past , sea salt has been the only recognized medication for such infections , but in recent years great strides have been made in our understanding of the various fungal infections and cures based upon methylene blue and malachite green are readily available and work simply and quickly . |
| 39 | North Yemen had been the only country to contribute troops to support Iraq during the Gulf war . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The previous regime had refused to accept any such responsibility on the grounds that the Federal Republic had been the only successor state to the Third Reich . |
| 42 | War on Want are er for a long time have been the only probably the only erm that put their neck on the block as far as social and environmental aspects of the party go . |