Example sentences of "[coord] [art] only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marshall boasted on his trade card that he was ‘ the inventor of true Spectacle Grinding & the only person that has , or ever has had , the Approbation of the Royal Society ’ . |
| 2 | When you connect the ribbon data cable make sure that the drive you wish to be the A : drive ( or the only drive if you have a single drive configuration ) is connected after the twist in the cable . |
| 3 | It may turn out not to be the final or the only unit of analysis but , even so , to contend that it were would not be so wildly wrong as treating America as fifty states without mentioning the Federal Government . |
| 4 | This is not the only argument for integrity , or the only consequence of recognizing it that citizens might value . |
| 5 | Of course the debate in government and Parliament was crucial but it was not the only way in which the educational reform was tested at the time nor the only way to assess it later . |
| 6 | But it is certainly not the only locale nor the only company in which competence in and knowledge of the social world is acquired . |
| 7 | NICRA was the best-known civil rights group but it was neither the first nor the only organisation to agitate on civil rights demands . |
| 8 | All these characteristics could only ever induce conflict between a family and potential division and so one must remember while reading the play that Mary is not the only one who suffers nor the only cause of anxiety . |
| 9 | And the only bit of damp I 've got is in one corner of the house but it came from a blocked erm pipe . |
| 10 | The room was unpainted and the only furniture consisted of a lime green sofa , two wooden chairs and a three-legged coffee table which was propped up against the wall to prevent it from toppling over . |
| 11 | There was at that time , scarcely a bookseller in Cornwall ; and the only newspaper known among the common people , was the Sherborne Mercury … |
| 12 | And the only English person to win that will back is somebody . |
| 13 | The numbers of seats secured approximated to the quotas of first preference votes expressed and the only exception to this was the special case of North Down ( see below ) . |
| 14 | Once on display at the IHM , early in 1992 , the aircraft will be the only example of a Piasecki helicopter in the UK , and the only HUP–3 in Europe . |
| 15 | Patrick had been interested to see that all traces of the damage the insurgents had wrought in the Green — the trenches they had dug , the trees they had felled — had vanished , and the only evidence of the 1916 Rising were the bullet holes in the stonework of the hotel where the rebels had fired on the British troops positioned on the roof and in some of the upper rooms . |
| 16 | It is as if the USA and the USSR were caught in the logic of the Prisoner 's Dilemma or the Chicken Game and the only sense in which this is not mere fiction is that it lets us predict successfully what will happen next . |
| 17 | This is very different from the Common Law procedure , which will never compel , or even allow ( at that time ) , one of the parties to an action to give evidence ; but it is a procedure , and the only procedure , which is suitable for trying such questions as uses and trusts , for which no open public acts , no formal documents may be available as evidence . |
| 18 | And the only horn and we 're often dealing with with only the only this , the only that . |
| 19 | In a land where , with a little water , anything would grow , and private gardens were a blaze of bougainvillaea and oleander , Cairo 's public gardens remained bits of desert , and the only colour in the Ezbekiya was provided once a week by the uniforms of the incredibly incompetent Egyptian regimental band . |
| 20 | They had n't wanted to , very much ; the little mining town was desolate and ugly and the only hotel smelled of stale beer and greasy chips , but Carrie had looked so different suddenly , so happy and ironed-out and eager , that none of them had said so . |
| 21 | The creation of nominal and fictitious votes was by far the greatest abuse to disfigure Scottish politics in the eighteenth century , but that was a form of political corruption which long survived even the Reform Act of 1832 , and the only abuse which was truly confined to the period under consideration was that which attempted to capitalise upon the opportunities for manipulating the voters , through a judicious application of patronage , which the small number of voters appeared to invite . |
| 22 | He had already done his instrument checks as he was taxiing and the only warning-light that had not flickered was the right thrust-reverser one . |
| 23 | She was in urgent need of relief , and the only possibility was a chamber pot behind a screen in the ladies ' cloakroom . |
| 24 | In the 1960's computers were rare and very expensive and the only text acquisition method for corpus compilers was manual input . |
| 25 | And the only word they 'll say then wo n't help . |
| 26 | There are only two human species left and the only bond between them is hatred : the one that crushes and the one that refuses to be crushed " when he pointedly remarked : " In a world brutally divided into those who rule and those who serve , the philosopher must finally acknowledge a long-concealed secret alliance with those who govern or else declare his solidarity with those who are governed . |
| 27 | I could not understand at the time why they thought we were Germans , but I later discovered that they knew we were people from a border and the only border they could think of was the one with Austria , which for them was the same as Germany . |
| 28 | Göncz , who was a member of the Alliance of Free Democrats ( SzDSz ) and the only candidate , had held the post on an interim basis since the beginning of May [ see page 37465 ] . |
| 29 | Miroslav Sladek , the leader of the Republicans and the only candidate , won a total of 58 out of 300 votes in the first poll and 60 in the second poll . |
| 30 | Miroslav Sladek , the leader of the Republicans and the only candidate , won a total of 58 out of 300 votes in the first poll and 60 in the second poll . |