Example sentences of "only one [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Only one of the many newspapers I read mentioned the fact that the assailant was black and it was with the most extreme difficulty that I was able to ascertain from reporters and policemen , who all refused to be named , that the callous passers-by were also black .
2 Maternal diet is only one of the many factors that can lead to fetal growth retardation .
3 This was only one of the many directions in which the Yakut people spread from their homeland on the Lena .
4 The polymer exists initially in the solid state where it is restricted to only one of the many conformations which are available to it as a free isolated molecule .
5 O was only one of the many names that we had given him , but it was the one that had lasted .
6 When she retires next month , challenging behaviour will be only one of the many items she will have been able to put a tick next to on the learning difficulties agenda , although she would the last to claim there is nothing left to do .
7 While the primates comprise only one of the several orders into which the class of mammals is divided , the group is of surpassing significance because man himself is classified within this order .
8 Von Frisch trained a scout bee to come to a source , and then placed out new sources at equal distances from the hive , but only one at the same direction as the original .
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