Example sentences of "still the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years old , the Range Rover is still the only serious off-roader that makes a convincing alternative to a luxury saloon . |
| 2 | TWO days after the US invasion of Panama , Britain is still the only member of the European Community to have given public support to the action . |
| 3 | The Communist Party is still the only organised political group with both money and power . |
| 4 | The record was beaten just a year later , but Worrell is still the only batsman to share in two partnerships of over 500 runs in first-class cricket . |
| 5 | ‘ To love human beings is still the only thing worth living for ; without this love you really do not live . ’ |
| 6 | There 's a new cross-country spike , a fell show and still the only triathlon specific shoe on the market in the Kona Coast . |
| 7 | For runners who hanker after a British-made shoe , or demand a variety of width fittings , New Balance is still the only choice . |
| 8 | He 's still the only man for the job . ’ |
| 9 | This year 's Salon , from 3 to 8 March , still remains an all-French event , despite the eagerness of several foreign dealers to get into what is still the only fair showing drawings to the exclusion of prints . |
| 10 | However , he claims IBM is still the only company that can command 48% margins on its mainframes . |
| 11 | She was still the only female field operative in the organization but her gutsy determination and self-confidence had won over her male colleagues who now regarded her as an equal . |
| 12 | It was still very difficult to see how the process might work , or to account for the fact that some ads worked , and some consumers took action , but others stubbornly did not ; or that an apparently good campaign failed to achieve extra sales — for sales were still the only real measure of effectiveness . |
| 13 | ‘ This is still the only way we can go . |
| 14 | At the time of the Han dynasty , when jade was still the only material fit to accompany the emperor , it was accompanied in the case of feudal lords and officials of grades 1–3 by pearls and in that of officials of grade 4 by gold.47 One indication of the status of pearls in Christendom is their use in iconography as symbols of regeneration , and the way they have long been used to enrich the crowns of sovereigns from the sacred crown of Hungary to the mitre crown of Catherine II of Russia and in our own day the State Crown of Queen Elizabeth II ( Frontispiece ; figs. 35 and 37 ) . |
| 15 | She continued to do so throughout the evening , serving him — he was still the only guest — with promptness and civility , being neither short nor teasingly indifferent , preoccupied , it seemed to Hope , and puzzlingly outside his grasp . |
| 16 | Since 1977 , when I first published what is still the only British book on the subject ( Modern First Editions : Their Value to Collectors ) , collectors have become more and more attracted to contemporary writers ; in this latest edition I list 281 twentieth century authors in whom there is currently the most interest , 115 of whom are alive and well and regularly producing new offerings which the hopelessly dedicated completists are obliged to add to their earlier rarities . |
| 17 | Griffin was fated to become the first ( and still the only ) bowler to achieve a hat-trick in a Lord 's Test and , in the same match , also to become the first man to be called for throwing in a Test in England . |
| 18 | In 1904 D. G. Hogarth wrote that it was still the only source for many places . |
| 19 | He was still the only factory inspector with medical qualifications at the time of the famous Sanitary Report of 1842 by ( Sir ) Edwin Chadwick [ q.v. ] , to which Baker was a contributor . |
| 20 | He moved the instrument again and the sound of Faye 's heartbeat changed a little , but was still the only rhythmic sound . |
| 21 | So I taught him that the first week , and the second week we went back and there was still only him , so it I taught him how to rewire a plug how to do it properly and er went back a third week and he was s still the only one there , so we went through it again , see if he 'd picked it up and he had n't so . |
| 22 | Verbal communication is still the only medium permitted . |
| 23 | Old and non-digital as it is , videodisc technology is today still the only platform available that can deliver high quality , full motion , full frame video complete with a range of trick frame features such as forward and backward variable speed motion and perfect freeze frames . |
| 24 | obtained the first , and still the only surface images of the planet . |
| 25 | A source might not tell us all we would like to know ; a document may sometimes be biased — but these sources are still the only direct evidence we have , and the historian has to learn to use them effectively . |
| 26 | Gloucester still the only unbeaten team . |
| 27 | ANTA is still the only company producing tartan ceramics and from their unprepossessing , scruffy but spacious ex-wartime buildings near Fearn , the Stewarts produce their wares using a complimentary fusion of creative talents . |