Example sentences of "has 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 . |