Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been Eleanor , quiet , firm , devoted whom Dorothea had loved , and Eleanor had been the only living person whose presence she could bear when Hallam died a year after their coming to Haverstock . |
| 2 | We accept that both the Unionist and Nationalist traditions are valid and legitimate ; that Northern Ireland should remain a part of the UK until the free consent of the majority of its people is given to change ; that the Republic of Ireland has a legitimate interest in the future of Northern Ireland ; and that a partnership in government which allows both communities to participate is the only practical way in which to make progress . |
| 3 | Apart from Granny Tremayne , Edna had been the only other permanent reliable character in Celia 's youth . |
| 4 | In this sense , all the diverse myths of classical tragedy are equally Dionysiac , and the same applies to the tragic heroes : for a long time , Dionysus had been the only character represented in the early drama , its only hero , and , until Euripides , all the different suffering heroes of tragedy were still " mere masks of this original hero " . |
| 5 | This last task is possibly the most difficult because the audience must be convinced that the ending chosen is the only possible outcome of everything that has gone before . |
| 6 | Until this year , massive and painful jabs of immunoglobulin in the bottom have been the only short-term chance of protection . |
| 7 | Jezrael hated being the only one there who wore a bodysuit but she would have hated more the embarrassment of displaying herself with all her imperfections to the crude and lumpen miners . |
| 8 | So far as it is known , Noble has been the only born-deaf person ever to be a Freemason in Britain . |
| 9 | I do not wish to appear uncharacteristically churlish , but I wonder whether I alone raised an eyebrow when the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) questioned whether the Secretary of State should have left the debate after an hour when the hon. Gentleman has been the only member of his party to be here throughout the debate — until the hon. Member for Liverpool , Mossley Hill ( Mr. Alton ) scuttled in towards the end of his speech . |
| 10 | But if the thing is perishable , recovery of the value of the goods converted is the only remedy possible . |
| 11 | In 1944–45 , the old hutted Emergency Hospital at Hexham near the Roman Wall had been the only home I had . |
| 12 | Rob McKinnon had been the only Hartlepool player not pilloried in that game , and the 23-year-old left-back was the most impressive player again . |
| 13 | Had his need , like hers , kept him sleepless , the memory of other nights firing his flesh till a cold shower in the middle of the night had been the only relief ? |
| 14 | Previously Customs have always accepted that where the discount is unconditional , the discounted price paid is the only consideration from the employee for the goods . |
| 15 | Prior to that , guilds had been the only groupings of workers . |
| 16 | Flat batteries have been the only problem . |
| 17 | of the union 's total membership , approximately half are under the age of 30. since the advent of rock in the 1950s and 1960s , the union has been the only independent organization to give service , protection and advice to rock musicians . |
| 18 | For more than three thousand million years , DNA has been the only replicator worth talking about in the world . |
| 19 | According to one commentator , the IS staff themselves appear to have considered their project-based approach to have been the only piece of real teaching going on . |
| 20 | It knew that the incident had been the only serious act of indiscipline during the strike and that Wilson had used it in his speech to taunt and smear the Ulster people . |
| 21 | She felt she was honour bound , as hostess , to keep the conversation going , and the mention of the poor man who had had to endure Harry Burrows moaning in a sheet beneath his windows had been the only topic to cling to her memory . |
| 22 | Irons and radios had been the only appliances owned by the majority of consumers before the War and they were joined by electric fires at the end of it . |
| 23 | Newman came to the answer Rome ; the former friends he left behind in the Church of England replied that the early undivided Church had been the only one wholly to contain this supernatural essence . |
| 24 | This and our unbelievable performance against Northtown have been the only bright spots in another nightmare week . |
| 25 | The council is aiming at money earmarked for spending on rural development , what the European Commission calls Objective 5b , the status which the Highlands and Islands have been the only Scottish region to have had in recent years . |
| 26 | In many of the lower-wage countries the growth of this type of employment has been the only real employment growth . |
| 27 | Until then cardboard tubes had been the only means of transporting and protecting artwork . |
| 28 | Dudley Clarke had been the only casualty , hit in the ear , which had been sewn back in place by a petty officer as the boat left the beach . |
| 29 | The concentration of neurons in ganglia is perhaps the first step towards building a brain , but even the appearance of a large head ganglion does not ensure that brains of the sort that humans and other mammals possess are the only design solution that can result . |
| 30 | The world 's largest bilingual dictionary publisher , Langenscheidt have been the only traditional print-on-paper publisher to enter the electronic handheld market with direct , independent investment . |