Example sentences of "the [adj] the only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet at the end of the eighties the only government money paid to BR was the rapidly dwindling subsidy paid to Provincial and Network SouthEast sectors to support loss-making services and talk continued of ‘ bustitution ’ , however ridiculed it was by professional transport executives . |
| 2 | The only the only approach to residential homes and nursing homes is as advertisers in those medical books . |
| 3 | Some D words and some B words so that you can sort it out cos the only way you the only the only person really who can make sure it works is you . |
| 4 | Not er not my understanding , the the and I think there is a we may have hit on the perhaps the only the only error in the whole , all the figures in this table , there should be a minus clearly in front of the three point six seven in that table . |
| 5 | The only the only lot that 's really safe is an |
| 6 | Department numbers and how you spend it so you must have to fill this card in I should think The only the only department is the cosmetics that 's not we 'll ask when we get there . |
| 7 | Yeah , so if you had if I try and draw it much the same if you had that and let's choose let's choose er , well le , let's keep the same let's keep to the same carbon chain if you had that the carbon skeleton is exactly the same the only way it differs is that the O H group here is on carbon one of that chain that we 've chosen where as here , it 's on carbon two of that chain . |
| 8 | These two here are also positional isomers , there carbon chains are the same the only way they differ is in the position of the functional group . |
| 9 | You ca n't tell they 're the same the only way you can tell is if they 're , if they 're working with number , I mean that 's a plus or a positive that 's a positive three . |
| 10 | Thus , with the earldom of Essex passing to the descendants of Geoffrey 's first marriage , John had to make do with such manors as Aylesbury and Steeple Claydon in Buckinghamshire , Exning in Suffolk , and Cherhill and Winterslow in Wiltshire , the last the only part of the honour of Berkhamsted that he obtained . |