Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite that , there are many cases when hill climbing is the best or perhaps the only practical approach : |
| 2 | Another result of the ease and availability of the Pill is an assumption that this is more or less the only method of birth control . |
| 3 | But , as James Fenton wrote in a piece about The Killing Fields published in Tatler , with specific reference to Al Rockoff : ‘ More or less the only thing you do is try to get as close as possible to people who are killing each other — and take photographs of them . |
| 4 | Sometimes it is the best , or even the only feasible way . |
| 5 | At that time a woman-centred politics , culture , and sexuality seemed to many to be a useful tactic , or even the only worthwhile long-term goal . |
| 6 | However , I now realise that perhaps the only person who felt intimidated by ‘ FE for all ’ was me . |
| 7 | Indeed , the pattern of research work in the humanities and social sciences is such that perhaps the only generalisation which can be made is that no article or book is written using only the resources of one library , still less the home library of a researcher 's institution . |
| 8 | Does my hon. Friend agree that probably the only economy in which full employment was implemented was the Soviet Union , where those who did not have a job were usually found somewhere to go , such as Siberia or the Gulag archipelago ? |
| 9 | It really appears to me that almost the only thing in the world which other men do but which Frenchmen can not , is the making of drains and sewers . |
| 10 | He commented patronisingly that almost the only sounds he heard from Baldwin during Cabinets were the rhythmic sucking of his pipe . |
| 11 | While other newspapers were wrongly calling it a second honeymoon , TODAY revealed that virtually the only time the couple acknowledged each other was when Diana intercepted a phone call from Charles to Mrs Parker-Bowles and a screaming row erupted . |
| 12 | The prime minister dares — dares — to talk about unorthodox styles of living in a society that actually penalises motherhood , so much so that virtually the only women who 'll take it up are those capable of nothing else ! |
| 13 | Certainly , once the Crown has been depersonalized to the point where it is synonymous with ‘ the government ’ , it is unnecessary and undesirable that coercive remedies designed to control government activity should not be available against the Crown which is the government , and that ultimately the only sanction for government compliance with the law should be political . |
| 14 | That it is inconceivable that after this number of centuries man still believes that ultimately the only way in which problems are solved is by blowing the other chap 's head off , which is so lunatic now . |
| 15 | This may prove difficult when your opponent is an élite performer and so the only practical advice I can offer is to appear in lots of competitions , so you become a known face to many national referees . |
| 16 | Pus may not form , and so the only signs may be the red , hot and painful mass which , combined with loss of function , defines ‘ inflammation ’ in any part of the body . |
| 17 | Such events , however , were not very frequent — a whole year might pass without one — and so the only additional earnings he could usually rely on were his winnings at the weekly bridge school . |
| 18 | And so the only communication I shall have with him is by letter , but er it 's the third of |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Modigliani worked on the painting , an unusually long time for him and perhaps the only time when he agreed to ‘ continue ’ a painting . |
| 21 | He held that ‘ the obvious and perhaps the only satisfactory solution ’ was a multilateral post-primary school attended by all children alike . |
| 22 | ‘ Many sub-units of companies simply can not be measured by revenue , contributions to profits , or costs related to output units … for a department of this kind , the best and perhaps the only measure of performance is achievement of predetermined programmes within budgets . ’ |
| 23 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , many astrophysicists remain unconvinced by the current evidence , and perhaps the only point of general agreement is that the nucleus does not contain a black hole as massive as those expected to reside in extinct quasars . |
| 26 | They do n't about that when they 're in the middle of a dramatic crisis and they 've fallen out and perhaps the only thing they know about is how to go about getting a divorce and you see a lawyer and so on . |
| 27 | And perhaps the only surprising thing about that result is that , is that seven people have said no ! |
| 28 | He has n't seen her before , and perhaps the only woman he 's seen me with is his mother . |
| 29 | He therefore considered them of a tradition quite different from that form of conservatism — so admirably defined by Russell Kirk in his study Eliot and his Age ( 1971 , 1984 ) — which , as Eliot said to me more than once , was the best and perhaps the only defence against the extremes of Communism and Fascism . |
| 30 | 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 . |