Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] only [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that were the only such delay of which I knew , I would accept that there had simply been an oversight , but I am afraid that , in the circumstances , I can not accept that . |
| 2 | As military obligations were the only visible tie between Rome and the allies , Rome had to make the most of these obligations lest they became meaningless or , worse , lest the allied armies turn against Rome . |
| 3 | He knew that these were the essential ingredients of political and economic stability in Poland and that two of them — political opposition and a free press — were the only real guarantees against Government abuse of power . |
| 4 | In his case words and the mental images that they created were the only available means of communication with his people . |
| 5 | Until last month , Budapest Week and the Daily News , a former communist publication published by the Hungarian news agency , MTI , were the only English-language publications in the country . |
| 6 | Miners , for example , maintained large families , 3.6 children in 1911 , despite the rapid general reduction in birthrate , and in the early twentieth century they were the only large category of workers whose families averaged over 3 . |
| 7 | The results showed that all type Ii foci of CC-M2T cells were the only positive foci in the DNA hybridisation assay of human Alu family sequences ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 8 | The generals were the only important magistrates to be elected , normally one from each of the ten tribes , elected by the people as a whole . |
| 9 | Signals were still largely a matter of horsed despatch-riders and flags ; the heliograph and electric telegraph were the only important additions to the repertoire at Napoleon 's disposal . |
| 10 | Three or four dirty children arrived for tea ; she and Rose were the only clean persons in the kitchen — for so Sally-Anne supposed the room — and while Ma , Rose and Sally-Anne sat down at table the children all stood , and wolfed the food down mannerlessly , fighting among themselves while they did so . |
| 11 | You could imagine you were prospecting some dark land and seeing camp fires , or signal fires , or fires that were the only known evidence of a hidden tribe . |
| 12 | From 1916 Unionist MPs were the only reliable support for the government . |
| 13 | Scott found that he and a contemporary were the only non-public-school boys in the administrative class in the department . |
| 14 | With his low-crowned hat and antiquated clerical costume , his broad scholarship and unenthusiastic divinity , his uncompromising insistence on ancient rights ( especially in chapter ) , his belief that land and ‘ the funds ’ were the only proper investment for the college and industrial shares a new form of the South Sea Bubble , he seemed to have stepped out of the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | But how could we ensure that complexity and mystery were the only qualitative differences between the various skylines ? |
| 16 | It was always my opinion that a strong squadron kept at sea to the westward and a squadron of smaller ships in the North Seas were the only secure guardians to these His Majesty 's kingdoms against invasions . |
| 17 | At first they operated alongside their toastrack predecessors , but in post-war years they were the only open cars in operation . |
| 18 | Myself and a friend were the only white guys in the whole place , and it was great . |
| 19 | His reward was that he was the only male member of the family who was not obliged to form part of the firing squad . |
| 20 | Marwood James Henry was the only male descendant of Benjamin James , and he and Madeline were to have no children ; only through Benjamin James 's brother William would the Titford name continue in this particular branch , and his story comes next . |
| 21 | ICI was the only UK-based manufacturer of carbon tetrachloride up until this month when it closed down its production plant . |
| 22 | This was the only large-scale employment of the Russians ; from this point on Vlasov and his commanders were mainly concerned with avoiding the destruction of their ‘ army ’ — now nominally 50,000 strong with its own air element , but poorly equipped and trained — in futile attempts to save Germany . |
| 23 | His most significant appearance was at the second day of the Putney debates , where he was the only civilian present besides the legally trained and dialectically more skilled ( Sir ) John Wildman [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | From that time , he made it his ambition to become ‘ another Jack Johnson ’ , as he told me : ‘ It was a kind of inspiration to me as I was the only black kid in the area . |
| 25 | And dangerous , and it was the only black cloud in her life on this morning when her son started university . |
| 26 | I mean I was the on I was the only black guy in the regiment erm for a very long time and erm you know it did n't it does n't matter what colour you are erm apart from my case , there was if you was erm if you were slow on your runs or you was n't good at at cleaning your kit you would get bullied . |
| 27 | For all his shortcomings Largo Caballero was the only political figure with sufficient standing on the left to have any chance of harnessing the revolution to the cause of victory ; his advocacy of ‘ Workers ’ Alliance' between 1934 and 1936 had helped to dissipate some of the mutual antagonism which had previously soured his relations with the CNT , while his role as the ‘ Spanish Lenin' during 1936 had made possible a close relationship with the Spanish Communist Party . |
| 28 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |
| 29 | But it was the only possible approach to Steen he could think of . |
| 30 | A more plausible interpretation , both less prescient and less duplicitous , would suggest that , while de Gaulle recognized the possibility of independence — and one might well wonder how , in the midst of global decolonization , he could have avoided such a recognition — he was by no means certain that this was the only possible outcome in Algeria . |