Example sentences of "the [noun sg] be the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you are ever going to see one of the genuine though attested rarities among the local fauna , a bear , a lynx , or an eagle , the Park is the only place you might do so , though there are thought to be fewer than twenty bears still living in the Pyrenees , and only eight pairs of eagles . |
| 2 | The board are the only ones who can resolve that . |
| 3 | The buyer is the only party to have broken the contract and the seller will be entitled to damages from him according to the principles just outlined . |
| 4 | The kitchen is the only room on the ground floor that gets regular use these days ( except , of course , for the round-the-clock activity in the laundry room ) . |
| 5 | It was apparent that the kitchen was the only room with water and a sink ; hand washing as well as washing up must be done here , if at all . |
| 6 | The gag is the only way of allowing him to feel and check the teeth properly even to the last molars which are situated parallel with the eye . |
| 7 | Additional evidence for the association of barchans with unidirectional winds is provided by Kharga Oasis , one of the only desert stations with wind records : at this locality the winds are almost unidirectional and the barchan is the only form of dune present . |
| 8 | well it 's Today the Mail and the Guardian are the only ones that put anything other than the Party line |
| 9 | The Census is the only survey of the entire population of the United Kingdom , and contains information about a wide range of topics , including , for example , household amenities , ethnic origin , educational qualifications and socio-economic group , as well as the standard variables such as age , sex and marital status . |
| 10 | But , apart from the sound of their own slightly laboured breathing as they toiled steadily uphill , the chattering of birds and the rustlings of small animals in the undergrowth were the only sounds they heard for the rest of the day . |
| 11 | The colt is the only horse to have beaten the flying Arazi and is a stablemate of Tertian , the 6–1 favourite for the 2,000 Guineas on May 2 . |
| 12 | The agricultural future lay with cattle-raising ( the cow or the pig was the only cash product of the small farmer and was sold , to pay his taxes , in the markets that were the centre of Galician social intercourse ) , and this could not develop until railways brought the market centre of Lugo into contact with the mass consumption of Madrid and Barcelona . |
| 13 | The vicarage is the only house not owned by the estate . |
| 14 | No the situation was getting worse and the only way that they we er that it was gon na be made better was by violence and , cos the violence is the only way |
| 15 | At a windsurfing school the environment is carefully chosen to be safe and suitable for quick progress , with the wind being the only variable . |
| 16 | The bathroom and the lavatory were the only places where I could be myself and on my Own . |
| 17 | Luckily , his companions rallied round to beat these oiks back into cringing servitude — the cudgel being the only language such types understand . |
| 18 | Circumstantial evidence may include that the defendant was the only person with the car keys ; he was seen getting out of the vehicle ; he was seen going towards or getting in the vehicle and/or he said he was going to drive the vehicle . |
| 19 | If the defendant was the only person other than the plaintiff using the information ( or one of a few ) then the injunction would be effective to protect the plaintiff and would be granted . |
| 20 | The priest was the only one who could declare a person to be healed from their leprosy . |
| 21 | The Ark is the only project of it 's kind in the region . |
| 22 | It is hoped that the tours will enable people to experience the sights , sounds and smells of old Edinburgh , as it was when the horse was the only means of transport . |
| 23 | In those days there were no public-address systems , and the principle of the Auxetophone was the only way of producing loud speech . |
| 24 | So , I think we should say we are sceptical , and I think the paper puts it correctly er , we are sceptical of whether the reforms of the first consortium in fact , is going to meet the needs in terms of new health area and I know that time will come , they 're talking about the lot , it 's gon na wonderful and that the our economies should get all I can say is that the likelihood is the only f the area committee er , so that residents can comment managers , but since we 've already had a nine hundred percent increase in senior management in the health service in the past five years up from nine hundred to over ten thousand at a cost of fifty to two hundred and fifty million pounds I 'm rather sceptical about that one as well ! |
| 25 | The sentence comes from an essay called Eztetyke du Rêve , an eccentric spelling of Esthétique du Rêve ( ‘ Aesthetic of the Dream' ) in which , building on the idea that ‘ the dream is the only right which can not be forbidden ’ , Glauber Rocha described how he had come to realise the revolutionary importance of the mystical in Latin American popular culture . |
| 26 | No More The Fool is the only jumper in the yard . ’ |
| 27 | The issue is the only one of the ten points where Mr Dodds disagreed with the auditor 's recommendations . |
| 28 | We 'll do it ourselves , although the council are the only people who can put them up anyone can take them down , |
| 29 | The co-ordinator is the only full-time member of the team and it is his task to ensure that the others , who should be sufficiently senior to be able to take decisions on actions proposed , feel involved and committed to the value improvement concept . |
| 30 | The co-ordinator is the only full-time member of the team and it is his task to ensure that the others , who should be sufficiently senior to be able to take decisions on actions proposed , feel involved and committed to the value improvement concept . |