Example sentences of "only [noun sg] is that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My only worry is that the majority of your classes would be in French . |
| 2 | His only worry is that the 500 official tickets he will be getting will not be enough . |
| 3 | The only defence is that the estate agent took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence . |
| 4 | The only constraint is that the information is ‘ off the record ’ which means the source of the information must remain anonymous . |
| 5 | The only disadvantage is that the final sample is unlikely to have exactly n members though this may not be very important . |
| 6 | Perhaps the only disappointment is that the money is to be shared equally , when a winning bonus would give the event the edge it deserves . |
| 7 | Now , thanks in no small measure to his own contribution to the Hampshire cause , he has one ; and the only disappointment is that the climax of the match was watched by only about 8000 people , as the weather caused it to be carried over into the second day . |
| 8 | The only condition is that the driver has a clean licence and has the permission of the mobility supplement holder . |
| 9 | Often the only result is that the application will run slow but sometimes it will crash . |
| 10 | Asterix inhabits a world of childlike innocence , peopled with characters such as Getafix , the venerable village Druid , Caco-fonix the bard and Vitalstatistix the brave chieftain , whose only fear is that the sky may fall on his head . |
| 11 | The only fear is that the local authority who would retain responsibility for Paul 's schooling , after normal school leaving age , if he remains a child with a statement of special educational needs , might possibly say that they would no longer pay for him being at school . |
| 12 | My only regret is that the college is not able to take more of my hon. Friend 's constituents . |
| 13 | Monica Shorten : ‘ My only regret is that the rival claims of the science departments and university clubs and social life distracted me from taking full advantage of my time in such an interesting community . ’ |
| 14 | If animals , particularly mature birds and the higher mammals , are taken as possessing more or less the full range of human capacities , with the exception perhaps of moral agency , and if the only dissimilarity is that the capacities are manifested in more limited ways , then there will be an almost irresistible temptation to give them moral status approaching that of recently discovered Stone Age tribes such as the Dani of Irian Jaya . |
| 15 | ‘ We are not getting paranoid about it because the only difference is that the keeper ca n't pick the ball up . |
| 16 | The only difference is that the problem solver searches in the combined set R u R2 for a pair ( I' , J' ) with I' closest to I. |
| 17 | For us , the only difference is that the barriers which we have to address are dissimilar to those faced by able-bodied people . |
| 18 | The only difference is that the actual futures price is £62 000 . |
| 19 | The only difference is that the work simply does not get published . |
| 20 | The only difference is that the slope of the worst case is rather steeper than the slope of the best . |
| 21 | The only difference is that the investment is consumer-led . |
| 22 | The only stipulation is that the topic must have some relationship to business activity or current affairs . |
| 23 | The only drawback is that the files must either have a common format , in which case you can use the X-modem transfer method , or be in ASCII . |
| 24 | My only niggle is that the seams on the top of the shoulder are quite prominent and uncomfortable . |
| 25 | My only qualm is that the final answer ( any shape , but get the size right ) is a bit of an anticlimax and , despite the author 's deftly misdirecting hand , those with a feeling for scale-changes will spot it sooner than they ought to . |
| 26 | The only proviso is that the politicians have to be asked first . |
| 27 | The only proviso is that the French notaire 's fees must be paid in francs . |
| 28 | His only proviso is that the work be carried out in Padua , not at the Istituto Centrale del Restauro . |
| 29 | His only complaint is that the technique is so simple that other researchers will be able to duplicate it quickly enough to keep up with his group . |
| 30 | Indeed , my only complaint is that the playing time is a bit on the short side ! |