Example sentences of "were [art] only ones " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legal Case 's connections were the only ones to pay the £30,000 supplementary fee . |
| 2 | They were the only ones with glass windows and metal roofs . |
| 3 | For example , much of the foregoing discussion was making the point that soil erosion was important to many small producers in steep-sloped and/or semi-arid areas and it may have seemed that these people were the only ones to cause and suffer from the effects of soil erosion ; also that there were few or no cases where successful adaptations and advances in agricultural technology had occurred . |
| 4 | Although the three powers we have just outlined were the principal measures available to the police to prevent or to control public assemblies , it would be a mistake to think that they were the only ones . |
| 5 | Appearing on the tape proved too much of a millstone for most bands and The Wedding Present were the only ones that carried on developing at a reasonable pace . |
| 6 | ‘ We all know , ’ he said in a lowered voice , ‘ that it was the O'Malleys who burnt out Con Gallagher that night , for they were the only ones who had somethin' to gain . |
| 7 | I used to think that we Met girls were the only ones awake and having to brave the elements . |
| 8 | The options of married life and spiritual life were the only ones open to us . |
| 9 | They were the only ones allowed through in the five weeks the children were away from home . |
| 10 | We were the only ones in the cellar , apart from the barman who was too frightened to move an inch . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm afraid stocks are still pathetically low , ’ Louise said as they looked at the half dozen dresses that were the only ones the assistant had in Constance 's size . |
| 12 | Until recently , many of those women who experience a light vaginal discharge at certain times between their periods may have thought that they were the only ones to have this problem . |
| 13 | Reliable sources , according to Tournebise and Macdonald , claimed that the Tianjin students were the only ones during the ‘ winter of discontent ’ to experience serious confrontations with the police and receive violent injuries . |
| 14 | The patrols searching the first group of farms around the village of Pontino were the only ones to bring the Captain anything when they returned , muddy and exhausted , after their double shift . |
| 15 | There were five of them at one table and they were the only ones still outside . |
| 16 | Patriotism had been distorted by lying propaganda and the massacre of European civilization resulted from the dominance of corrupt political and industrial interests , which were the only ones to benefit from the war . |
| 17 | The wall paintings , discovered in 1952 , were the only ones of their kind in the Aveyron region . |
| 18 | The fact that in the end we were the only ones to organise our own conference was something of a surprise , as were the vast numbers of participants we attracted , far beyond all expectations . |
| 19 | We were the only ones to get it . |
| 20 | ‘ I knew right away we 'd have to start preparing for the next one , ’ he told the boys , who were the only ones who 'd listen to him by then , in the home at any rate . |
| 21 | In fact , Alan and I were the only ones to find the old master and pupil just what the doctor ordered . |
| 22 | The Steen and Jacqui photographs were the only ones that fitted the description . |
| 23 | His hall was built on a north-to-south axis , so that the wind blew through it constantly , keeping the air fresh ; but the odours of the spices and scented oils he used were the only ones a visitor might smell . |
| 24 | It is a part of Britain 's case that when she joined the Community , economic objectives were the only ones on offer . |
| 25 | That was n't difficult , because he was sitting in the middle of the largest and noisiest group in the room — also they were the only ones speaking English . |
| 26 | Of the Tuscan towns , Amelia and Otricoli were the only ones to accept papal domination without a murmur . |
| 27 | Those 3 miles were the only ones the clay would have to travel by road on its journey via Liverpool and the Trent and Mersey canal to Wedgwood 's canalside Etruria . |
| 28 | It was still early , however , and they were the only ones at the tables . |
| 29 | Instead of the ambitions of the grammar school , the curriculum was confined to the " plain accomplishments " which were the only ones needed by the " generality of the people " . |
| 30 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |