Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the late 1950s it was practically the only effective remedy for a most distressing disorder . |
| 2 | It was n't the only one . |
| 3 | IT was n't the only programme last night to shine light into dirty corners . |
| 4 | It was n't the only common factor to emerge during the various forums at the ICO . |
| 5 | It was n't the only operation that went into the shredder at that time — you could figure that for yourself So Arnie went to London and closed it off wiped our prints off everything and I shut down the Langley end . |
| 6 | It was n't the only difference between the two of them . |
| 7 | It was n't the only letter he wrote to the Took family . |
| 8 | But it was not the only rainforest tree to fall on that day . |
| 9 | But it was not the only reason . |
| 10 | It was not the only time Poindexter had to shut North up : partly because North genuinely did not know how widely the secret was known , but partly because he could hardly resist it anyway . |
| 11 | It was not the only type of landscape that existed in this region any more than it was over much of England . |
| 12 | But it was not the only one . |
| 13 | It was not the only oversight . |
| 14 | It was not the only mistake he made at Swindon Town . |
| 15 | It was not the only time that the Home Secretary , Sir George Grey , was identified as a sentimentalist . |
| 16 | Barnard Castle was Gloucester 's major gain from the division of the Beauchamp inheritance , but it was not the only one . |
| 17 | It was not the only banquet taking place in Kinsai , but it was clearly the one at which the nobility of the Khanate of even the lowest degree had thought it was incumbent upon them to be seen . |
| 18 | Noting that the award corresponded with the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas , it said that this " was not a coincidence [ but ] … it was not the only factor " in the selection . |
| 19 | Of course the debate in government and Parliament was crucial but it was not the only way in which the educational reform was tested at the time nor the only way to assess it later . |
| 20 | The type of farming system that was followed was an important determinant of the character of a local community , but it was not the only one by any means . |
| 21 | Barnard Castle was Gloucester 's major gain from the division of the Beauchamp inheritance , but it was not the only one . |
| 22 | The medical evidence showed that excessive oxygen was a cause of blindness in premature babies but it was not the only factor which caused blindness . |
| 23 | It was not the only important monastic centre in Gaul ; already Martin , bishop of Tours at the end of the fourth century , had established an ascetic tradition in the Touraine and Poitou , and in Marseilles John Cassian , an easterner with first-hand knowledge of Egyptian asceticism , wrote two of the classics of monastic literature , the Institutes and the Conferences . |
| 24 | It was not the only influence at work , however . |
| 25 | It was also the only alternative use for which finance was available . |
| 26 | It was also the only country to post an increase in the number of patents received in foreign countries . |
| 27 | And breakfast was not only a leisurely start , it was also the only Sunday meal when he could be sure that all the members of his family would be together at table . |
| 28 | It was probably the only thing she had to put on her back and he had ruined it . |
| 29 | And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get . |
| 30 | Folly realised that it was probably the only relevant English word she knew . |