Example sentences of "[was/were] he the only " in BNC.

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1 Did Cook achieve all this without competition , was he the only excursion agent in business in the second half of the nineteenth century ?
2 Nor was he the only imperialist of his day of whom it might have been said , as one of his biographers said of him , that he had ‘ a genius for backing into the limelight ’ .
3 Nor was he the only one to see hope amid chaos .
4 Nor was he the only one to do so .
5 Was he the only son ?
6 Was he the was he the only singer- songwriter in the country or something then ?
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