Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to that , guilds had been the only groupings of workers . |
| 2 | Flat batteries have been the only problem . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Until then cardboard tubes had been the only means of transporting and protecting artwork . |