Example sentences of "[vb past] was the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early 1970s he introduced a type of tournament competition called knockdown , which , since it allows full power strikes to the body , he believed was the only true test of a karateka 's fighting ability . |
| 2 | The third was the treatment by similars which he stated was the only sure way , apart from prevention , to treat disease . |
| 3 | What followed was the only bit of gamesmanship you could accuse Lee Trevino of . |
| 4 | Her ability to repeat what she heard was the only language task which she could perform at all well . |
| 5 | But if a matter came to a head that withdrawing my labour was the only way to resolve it , that I thought was the only way to resolve it , I 'd go out and do it again . |
| 6 | It seemed to me that the man I recently left was the only person that I did know . ’ |
| 7 | He spent most of his spare time up at Skiplam , where the girl he courted was the only child of a wealthy farmer . |