Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [was/were] the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This wild area is quite shaded by some old apple trees which were the only trees in the garden when they moved in . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The catholic school which was the only school available then to us fo with the field that was we which we needed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But on B B C which was the only station operating at that er time erm er Sunday was a a drab day . |
| 12 | 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 . |