Example sentences of "have been [art] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | of the union 's total membership , approximately half are under the age of 30. since the advent of rock in the 1950s and 1960s , the union has been the only independent organization to give service , protection and advice to rock musicians . |
| 2 | For more than three thousand million years , DNA has been the only replicator worth talking about in the world . |
| 3 | To date , that has been the only way — mass starvation , disease , AIDS , wars and insurrection , enforced transmigration and so on . |
| 4 | So far as it is known , Noble has been the only born-deaf person ever to be a Freemason in Britain . |
| 5 | In the past , sea salt has been the only recognized medication for such infections , but in recent years great strides have been made in our understanding of the various fungal infections and cures based upon methylene blue and malachite green are readily available and work simply and quickly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ That has been the only topic of conversation throughout the county lately , ’ adds Chivers , ‘ We beat them last year at Casement Park , then fell to Donegal in the final . |
| 8 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 9 | In many of the lower-wage countries the growth of this type of employment has been the only real employment growth . |
| 10 | Until recently , surgery has been the only effective management for Dieulafoy 's lesions . |
| 11 | If the Revenue accept that the court order or agreement between the parties created a settlement on the ground that the interests of the beneficiaries are not of the same quality as the wife has a right of occupation ( see Booth v Ellard [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1443 ) Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act , 1992 , s225 provides that the gain accruing to a trustee on the disposal of settled property shall in effect be free from capital gains tax where during the period of ownership the house has been the only or main residence of the person entitled to occupy it under the terms of the settlement . |
| 12 | Since 1987 , it has been the only monetary aggregate with a target range set annually . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | And Robert Donat can not have been the only one who complained to Korda about a ‘ silly and unproductive attitude towards scripts ’ , which he credited as being at ‘ the root of the failure of so many British films . ’ |
| 15 | The thought passed through her head that those two women might have been the only ones he had ever loved . |
| 16 | At the time it would have been the only glittering example of this technique north of the Alps . |
| 17 | This must have been the only time John ever had his work discussed in detail by a choreographer of Balanchine 's gifts and experience , and although Buckle described him as ‘ looking somewhat quelled ’ his nature was such as to profit from it . |
| 18 | The press release the editors sent me was acceptable , but I may have been the only person to get it . |
| 19 | The beginning of civilisation was almost certainly a mental development which came long before it affected man 's physical abilities , and it could well have been the moment when for the first time , a primitive creature found that he could override and control the instinctive urge to act , which up to that time would have been the only source of motivation . |
| 20 | Readers of Canoeist will have been the only people to have know that the numbers on the advertisements as we originally published them cross referenced to the map on page 52 of our February issue . |
| 21 | Moreover , the merged company would have been the only commuter manufacturer covering the whole range of commuter aircraft . |
| 22 | His would not have been the only provincial accent to assail the ears of Londoners at the time , but at least it would have lent his speech a touch of bucolic appeal , with its rolling Somerset post-vocalic ‘ r ’ sounds and a liberal sprinkling of ‘ v 's for ‘ f's and ‘ z's for ‘ S'S . |
| 23 | William and Mary Ann Titford enjoyed no such luxury — but then they were among the youngest people in the street , and their daughter Grace Beatrice , born in 1883 , would have been the only baby crying down Brunswick Place in that year — much to the consternation of the local worthies , no doubt : |
| 24 | Also , the feared return of large numbers of KGB agents may not have been the only operational reason to influence the intelligence men to fear the election of a Labour government under the premiership of Harold Wilson . |
| 25 | They would have been the only outward sign of strain as her voice continued to keep its same even tenor , its same quiet courtesy . |
| 26 | With the constructors number 501 , it may have been the only aircraft built . |
| 27 | This is that the dance might have been the only way , given apine physiology immediately before its evolutionary debut , to solve that problem . |
| 28 | This holds regardless of whether the mechanism , behavioural , chemical or otherwise , might have evolved arbitrarily or might have been the only possible one phylogenetically . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |