Example sentences of "[was/were] the only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fleapit at the centre of another Rose script , The Smallest Show on Earth ( 1957 , Big Time Operators in US ) , directed by Ealing 's Basil Dearden , is eventually burnt to the ground by its old commissionaire : ‘ It were the only way were n't it ’ , he says to the cooing couple who inherited the place in a town stinking of glue from the local factory , together with staff so lost in the past that they still enjoy looking at Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ The Rye . |
| 2 | If you thought that seeds and cuttings were the only way to increase your garden plants then turn to the Gardeners ' Manual for a host of practical ideas to try . |
| 3 | Before much was known about the structure , trivial names were the only way to identify compounds . |
| 4 | They looked at psychological processes simply because they were the only way of monitoring what the brain might be doing . |
| 5 | Many of its own supporters advised Bakufu leaders that concessions were the only way to forestall more radical action . |
| 6 | Her father had gone on smoking and gesturing with a nod or a headshake ; he had protested that votes were the only way , not force . |
| 7 | The Egyptian government expressed regret over the US decision on June 21 and stated that direct negotiation and continuous dialogue were the only way to resolve the dispute . |
| 8 | I did all those movies because they were the only work I could get , ’ Nicholson said in a frank assessment of his next few years of acting roles on the fringes of Hollywood , appearing almost entirely in low-cost , quickly made horror films , and what were then called teenage exploitation pictures , mostly with Roger Corman . |
| 9 | Then reality returned with a rush as she suddenly realised that the music had stopped and that they were the only couple still left on the floor . |
| 10 | They were the only consideration . |
| 11 | When he finished reading , he began to sing his favourite song , If You Were The Only Girl In The World And I Was The Only Boy , except he turned the words round — for a laugh , he always said — and sang : ‘ If I was the only girl in the world and you were the only boy … . ’ |
| 12 | If you were the only girl in the world , |
| 13 | " If you were the only girl in the world and I was the only boy , nothing else would matter in the whole wide world , " my mother would sing inappropriately . |
| 14 | He sang If You Were the Only Girl in the World and he sang Help Me Make It Through the Night . |
| 15 | If dogs were the only issue in the general election which of the following would get your dog 's vote ? |
| 16 | This is rather a trivial example : if teeth were the only problem , senescence could be cured by false teeth . |
| 17 | We married two years later and Anthony and Georgina Andrews were the only showbusiness guests . |
| 18 | Income during the year had risen by 8% in real terms to £52.4m , and sales of souvenirs and gifts , which fell by 1% , were the only casualty of the economic climate so far . |
| 19 | As he stood there , his glittering black eyes were the only feature that identified him as a living creature , and not a darker patch of shadow in the benighted forest . |
| 20 | ITN 's News at Ten homes in on Big Ben as if it were the only part of London that mattered . |
| 21 | A. M. The worst part of the job was chasing fellers off the corners , a crowd of drunks , especially when you were the only policeman . |
| 22 | The business of the day was decidedly the buying and selling of horses ; four small swing-boats and a couple of slot machines were the only concession to entertainment , apart from the escapologist of course . |
| 23 | People often mention ‘ metal whiskers ’ as if they were the only kind but , as a matter of fact , metal whiskers are less common and less interesting than whiskers of non-metals and it is about these latter that we shall mostly talk . |
| 24 | ‘ I came to find you because you were the only person who told me that Liam would n't be in that house . |
| 25 | He knew how to look at you as if you were the only person who 'd ever interested him . |
| 26 | Peter wondered if he were the only person she had n't bothered to tell . |
| 27 | But — oh , Ellie , there was such a to-do last time , Phena carrying on as though she were the only person in the world who had been lied to , and I know it was hard for her , and Feargal would have given her all this without a blink , but she wanted to play the martyr , and now makes him pay for it in oh , so many little ways . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And then — this evening , when everyone was so upset … you only thought of her … you went off after her as if she were the only person that mattered to you … |
| 29 | Even when we signed to RCA , they were the only company to actually make an offer to sign the band , although there were one or two others flirting with the idea . ’ |
| 30 | Virgin were the only company that could pull him out of the hole , and it was to Virgin that McLaren now turned , cap in hand . |