Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [be] the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mechanical harshness intrudes throughout the rev range , accompanied at low speeds by a bass exhaust which is the only sign of any sporting character , but not a very convincing one . |
| 2 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 3 | Pages were put together by gathering the material up and roughing it into a layout based round the principal hooks — the headlines and pictures which were the only things that really mattered . |
| 4 | There is a Titanic bear based on a teddy which survived that disaster in 1912 and a Mister Whoppit bear which was the only object to re-surface when Donald Campbell 's boat disintegrated while he was trying to break the world water speed record on Lake Coniston in 1967 . |
| 5 | They are they er are doing a practice which is the only golf company in industry who are supplying a friend of a friend who is going round Scotland doing hotel sales cheap . |
| 6 | ‘ So when it comes to paying the academic and administrative core staff of the college , when it comes to heating and lighting the buildings , ensuring their safety , maintaining the basic fabric of the place , it is the Universities Funding Council block grant which is the only money available to cover these costs . ’ |
| 7 | In Surere 's province , there had been many transgressions , despite the loss of privilege which was the only punishment he had dared impose , though there were rumours that in some cases he would have preferred to apply the death penalty . |
| 8 | hello there this week our summer sporting action is whitewater rafting … we 've come to the water sports centre at Holme Pierrepoint which is the only centre of its kind in Britian … |
| 9 | Even until after the Second World War , the cities of Dalmatia could more easily maintain contact with each other by sea than along the tortuous roads and tracks which were the only means of land transport . |
| 10 | Social Worker : It may be wrong , but you could n't then make your body not a body which was the only way then you could make yourself not experience some pleasure . |
| 11 | If the utilitarian looks at it in this way , he takes it as a criterion for an acceptable use of ethical words , and way of understanding moral judgement , that it should give them a factual content which is the only one which it is sensible to expect people in general to endorse as a sensible guide to acceptable conduct . |
| 12 | He was looking unusually smart in a pin-stripe suit and a black tie which was the only colour he 'd worn since Will died . |
| 13 | This wild area is quite shaded by some old apple trees which were the only trees in the garden when they moved in . |
| 14 | Here is this man , never previously seen doing his public duty , always seen merely roaring at the Labour Party or being interviewed like any tuppeny-ha'penny minister , now occupying the despatch-box which is the only site that gives credibility to his claim to be a prime-minister-in-waiting . |
| 15 | It must be deployed also on the hitherto comparatively neglected first four years of the reign , that brief part of her life which is the only one which can be considered in any way typical for a reigning monarch . |
| 16 | In the rudimentary forms of communication which are the only survivors of the closing-down process , very few issues indeed can be addressed . |
| 17 | That same Friday evening in August , Theodora Braithwaite drove fast down the straight Roman road which was the only road into and out of Norfolk . |
| 18 | The catholic school which was the only school available then to us fo with the field that was we which we needed . |
| 19 | Kate told herself as the Porsche leapt forward as if pleased to be released from this rather unfashionable and cheap part of London which was the only place she could afford to live in a small flat by herself . |
| 20 | But on B B C which was the only station operating at that er time erm er Sunday was a a drab day . |
| 21 | Melot 's Arab spy was engaged to guide everyone to the Wadi Fetilia which was the only practical route down the escarpment on to the coastal plain . |
| 22 | But it ties it in to a date and I think in a similar way , erm centenary which is the only thing we 're going to do offic I think that it could be the only thing we do to celebrate our hundred years of existence apart from a small exhibition in . |