Example sentences of "[adv] the only [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguably the only practical advantage in embalming was that it could reveal whether or not a person had been suffering from catalepsy . |
| 2 | Indeed arguably the only reliable evidence of who has given money to the Tory Party is the honours list which is published twice a year ! |
| 3 | Our story begins in India , where in 1885 what was arguably the only significant nationalist organization with which the British ever had to contend , the Indian National Congress , was founded by — an Englishman . |
| 4 | The Lincolns played an integral part in the overall harassment of the communist offensive campaign and were effectively the only permanent heavy bomber unit in Malaya . |
| 5 | The linking of the elements thus takes on the only allowable form of " one-to-many " . |
| 6 | The longest and best of the times when things went well was the one that started in 1945 , when Greece was suddenly the only non-communist country in Europe east of Vienna . |
| 7 | A decade later President Reagan was making similar statements , speaking of Israel ‘ as perhaps the only remaining strategic asset in the region on which the United States can truly rely … |
| 8 | Despite that , there are many cases when hill climbing is the best or perhaps the only practical approach : |
| 9 | And perhaps the only surprising thing about that result is that , is that seven people have said no ! |
| 10 | Perhaps the only genuine conclusion that can be made at this particular time of flux is that arts teachers are generally receptive to the introduction of new approaches to assessing children 's work , but only if these developments can be seen to have a positive value in helping children to be more articulate about their strengths and weaknesses , and are therefore essentially formative in character . |
| 11 | Perhaps the only firm conclusion to emerge from this continuing debate is the recognition that the literary scene has become pluralistic . |
| 12 | Perhaps the only viable solution to these problems is to remove one or more major teaching hospitals from London and establish regional centres of excellence . |
| 13 | Perhaps the only good news for hunting people is the impressive progress of Edmund Vestey , new chairman of the Campaign for Hunting and chairman-elect of the Masters of Foxhounds Association . |
| 14 | Perhaps the only other Seniors ' player who could stymie a Trevino rampage next year is Jack Nicklaus — if he wants to , that is . |
| 15 | On the contrary , her home is a cohesive force , perhaps the only cohesive force she can experience in the generally fragmenting world of adolescence . |
| 16 | Perhaps the only major systematic attempt to explore the validity of contending approaches to explaining the growth of government is provided by the United States Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations ( ACIR ) study of the growth of government in America . |
| 17 | When you were born as a scarcely distinguishable blob in the smoked ranks of the industrial army of the poor , when privilege was not only out of sight but in the hands of a foreign country , when you saw the daily cost of a necessary daily grind , then to have a ‘ gift ’ was perhaps the only sure way to see an escape . |
| 18 | Perhaps the only unhappy owner of the Rectory was the Reverend Banks who had an extremely unfortunate affliction of the nose which no doctor could alleviate . |
| 19 | Methods of conducting evaluation such as classroom observation and surveys of opinion within school were entirely absent from the appraisal and perhaps the only wide-scale method used was that of departmental discussion . |
| 20 | OHE is not a ‘ front ’ organisation for the pill merchants , but a proudly acknowledged agency , and is far and away the most successful PR exercise ( perhaps the only successful PR exercise ) which the industry has ever staged . |
| 21 | It is the only continuous book he ever wrote after 1945 — the rest is all essays and articles — and perhaps the only entire book by any British-born critic of the age to work moral and literary concerns into a single exercise of radical intellect , as indifferent to tact as to fashion and concerned only with truth itself . |
| 22 | Perhaps the only heartening aspect of the whole Gulf conflict has been the way that in the post Cold War age , there has been a sustainable coalition of western and eastern states determined to prevent Saddam profiting from his attack on Kuwait . |
| 23 | He held that ‘ the obvious and perhaps the only satisfactory solution ’ was a multilateral post-primary school attended by all children alike . |
| 24 | Perhaps the only common ground the groups really share is their fan base . |
| 25 | In fact , it was a stubborn virginity , which took all his strength to remove ; while he wrought at it she gave way to wailing , then it broke at last , a cry ; perhaps the only natural sound Emily had ever made in face of the only reality that had ever assailed her . |
| 26 | There , contrary to expectation , primary schools are of the two to three teacher type even in the heavily populated Punjab province , partly because of the village concept of life and partly because the community structure makes this the best and perhaps the only acceptable form of organisation . |
| 27 | The Crucible , the play which showed the clear parallel between the McCarthy mentality and the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 , was perhaps the only enduring work of art to come out of the period . |
| 28 | All these contributory factors lend support to the accuracy of the image in illus.4 as perhaps the only known representation of a conducteur in a smaller Parisian 18th-century theatre . |
| 29 | Perhaps the only clear utility is to remind us that , contrary to the preoccupations of many philosophers and a great many semanticists , language is used to convey more than the propositional content of what is said . |
| 30 | A reasonable , and perhaps the only plausible , response would be to say that to understand an utterance is to decode or calculate all that might reasonably have been meant by the speaker of the utterance ( cf. |