Example sentences of "they the only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guess an inexperienced parent just does n't know what to do with these intruders in the nest , and disposes of them the only way it can . |
| 2 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 3 | Homework is done by women whose role as unpaid caretakers of a nation 's dependents forces them out of the competition of the job market , and , still needing to earn , into work which is desperately tedious , which has to be carried out in isolation , thus losing for them the only element which makes tedious work bearable — the cameradie of the factory floor . |
| 4 | The plan of ‘ systematization ’ if it had been carried through would have left them the only repositories of folk-culture and architecture , since the threefold slogan ‘ Systematization — Modernization — Civilization ’ would have left little of what remained unscarred . |
| 5 | They were at floor-level , and beyond the empty ranks of seats above them the only light came from two dim green EXIT signs . |
| 6 | So they 're the only ones you want to get rid of or are they the only ones you 've got ? |
| 7 | Were they the only agent or were there other agents ? |
| 8 | Elections were not the only occasions when those below the level of the elite could give voice to their political inclinations , nor were they the only points of contact between the world " out-of-doors " and that of Westminster . |
| 9 | Were they the only people that used to use it like that ? |