Example sentences of "[been] [art] only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprisingly , it seems to have been the only instance of monastic dissolution in the county which was resisted by the locals . |
| 2 | Despite the odds against her , she would have persevered if that had been the only hope of tracing her sister . |
| 3 | Since the Second World War , however , the political control of rural councils has not been the only factor influencing the rate of rural house-building . |
| 4 | Though there may have been some hostility between the victuallers and the non-victuallers , this can hardly have been the only factor involved . |
| 5 | ‘ Since when have either passion or beauty been the only rationale behind collecting works of art ? |
| 6 | ‘ I could have been the only Irishman to play for both Billy Bingham and Jack Charlton , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 8 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 9 | This would not have been the only occasion on which the notion of brotherhood was used to imply a special relationship with Rome ; the people of Autun , for instance , regarded themselves as being brothers of the Romans , as did the men of the Auvergne . |
| 10 | In the 14 years since 1978 , during which I have been the only consultant physician in respiratory medicine in West Cumbria , there should , according to the above statistics , have been at least 70 deaths from asthma and yet I know of very few , having personal knowledge of only three . |
| 11 | This has always been the only way in which future interests in personal property can be created . |
| 12 | To date , that has been the only way — mass starvation , disease , AIDS , wars and insurrection , enforced transmigration and so on . |
| 13 | This is that the dance might have been the only way , given apine physiology immediately before its evolutionary debut , to solve that problem . |
| 14 | That style may have been the only way round a corner in the days of slippy tyres , dodgy suspension and flexible chassis but modern GP machines permit a faster , more aggressive route through the turn . |
| 15 | The division may have been the only way that Chlothild was able to ensure that part of Clovis 's realm passed to her offspring . |
| 16 | That 's why I crawl down holes and chuck myself off cliffs and ride the bike — it 's been the only way I could feel alive , but since I met you I 've come alive in other ways , ways I 'd forgotten long ago . |
| 17 | At the snowbound alpine inn of Kleine Scheidegg , Kartoffel had not been the only climber to get a taste of the good frau 's favours . |
| 18 | The previous regime had refused to accept any such responsibility on the grounds that the Federal Republic had been the only successor state to the Third Reich . |
| 19 | I do not wish to appear uncharacteristically churlish , but I wonder whether I alone raised an eyebrow when the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) questioned whether the Secretary of State should have left the debate after an hour when the hon. Gentleman has been the only member of his party to be here throughout the debate — until the hon. Member for Liverpool , Mossley Hill ( Mr. Alton ) scuttled in towards the end of his speech . |
| 20 | The press release the editors sent me was acceptable , but I may have been the only person to get it . |
| 21 | He met Fanny Blandy , who is said to have been the only person to understand what he was talking about , and she used flags to signal to him in the harbour from the family Quinta da Santa Luzia . |
| 22 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
| 23 | Malcolm Scott may have been the only footballer/cricketer at Feethams , but MI lists nine more who played against the Quakers . |
| 24 | Honey had been the only sweetener ; sugar had been as expensive as cinnamon or cloves and it could be taxed as a luxury in the firm belief that this would not make life harder for the working classes who were not thought to be consumers of sugar , though this was clearly changing in the eighteenth century . |
| 25 | North Yemen had been the only country to contribute troops to support Iraq during the Gulf war . |
| 26 | ‘ He was glad that Sigarup had come , because up to now he 'd been the only patient staying and , alone at night , he was terrified of ghosts — of the restless souls of all the people who must have died there , far from their homes and families . ’ |
| 27 | Had this been the only evidence of any religious aspect of Chedworth , one could have considered the nymphaeum merely as an unusual feature . |
| 28 | Flat batteries have been the only problem . |
| 29 | MARTIN EDWARDS has not been the only man in Manchester trying to sell something of a sporting nature . |
| 30 | That must have been the only man ever to get no points three times in a row . |