Example sentences of "the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attitude of many Romanian health professionals was summed up recently in the words of one doctor in Constanta who said ‘ Health Education is the only ‘ vaccine ’ we have to fight against HIV . ’ |
| 2 | The only problem is , she is Ugandan and speaks very little English , has no idea how to get home and has no money for transport . |
| 3 | Stealing , cheating and lying become the only way to pay . |
| 4 | Is a covenant the only method of tax-effective giving ? |
| 5 | This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal . |
| 6 | There is no outside view of any sort and the only time they leave the cell is for weekend visits from relatives , bi-daily showers or for 45 minutes ' daily exercise . |
| 7 | One must never forget that the reality of the twentieth century is not the reality of the nineteenth century , not at all and Picasso was the only one in painting who felt it , the only one . |
| 8 | One must never forget that the reality of the twentieth century is not the reality of the nineteenth century , not at all and Picasso was the only one in painting who felt it , the only one . |
| 9 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 10 | He knew and practised all the rules of art , and from a composition of Raphael , Carracci , and Guido , made up a style , of which the only fault was , that it has no manifest defects and no striking beauties ; and that the principles of his composition are never blended together , so as to form one uniform body original in its kind , or excellent in any view . |
| 11 | Even in Europe , Saturn is not the only planet under whose influence it is possible to be born . |
| 12 | The only virtue of these latter newspaper techniques is to bring an event to the attention of a reader . |
| 13 | The unfavourable reception of Impressionism by the French critics is notorious ; but Impressionism was not the only group to gain a name from a review — the Fauves and Cubism share this . |
| 14 | The only possible general comment is limited to a comparison of one year with another , or of one exhibition with some comparable one . |
| 15 | Describing the object is not the only sort of description that a reader can expect from a critic . |
| 16 | The lyricism that sells out to a state-ordained reality and solidarity is not the only lyricism we know , and it is the opposite of much of what we know by that name . |
| 17 | I tried not to think about it , which is the only thing to do in such a situation . ’ |
| 18 | An autocrat falls in the first two books ; but the only one in the third is the author-autocrat of the hotel room who sallies into the bush , as if on impulse , to visit the mysterious , moveable ‘ front ’ . |
| 19 | And the only kind of respect worth having is the insincere kind . ’ |
| 20 | Byron 's is not the only ghost to be detected here : the cold hearts of his precursors Lovelace and Laclos 's Valmont are present in Pechorin , who has succeeded in attracting a certain princess . |
| 21 | I cherished the ambition to be the first ( perhaps the only ) Italian writer to describe the Yiddish world . |
| 22 | Book-writers , Faussone says , produce works ‘ which may be beautiful and all that , but , on the other hand , even if they were a bit defective , excuse the expression , nobody would die , and the only loser is the customer who bought them ’ . |
| 23 | It is most odd indeed how objects disappear in rooms wherein the only moveable entity is oneself . ’ |
| 24 | Next day it 's the only way to get a ticket . |
| 25 | The only other experience I had was playing Essie in Shaw 's play The Devil 's Disciple at Leeds … |
| 26 | Having been lucky with the only real audition I did which was for the RSC , I ca n't really complain about it . |
| 27 | In fact , in rural areas today , the Orange hall has frequently been the only place where protestants of all shades have met to renew their belief and commitment to Ulster protestant loyalism ( Harris 1972 : 162–5 ) . |
| 28 | The only way catholic nationalists can fulfil their present aspirations as a people is by extending the Republic of Ireland to the entire island . |
| 29 | Increasingly it is seen as the only option left in the face of the continuing Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 30 | The clergy were the only source of education apart from the ‘ hedge school ’ teachers ( Dowling 1968 ) and provided a significant moral and organizational resource . |