Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [was/were] the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course I was the only one that was single . |
| 2 | Sometimes for many months I was the only white person for hundreds of miles . |
| 3 | No but you would 've said to me to , you know I had no one there Catriona , I was the only girl in the shack I was the only girl there and it was just so |
| 4 | But apart from the United States she was the only non-European state which could claim anything like this status . |
| 5 | I was sure they could hardly wait , but then to be fair to Fenella she was the only woman under fifty I knew in London who made her own damson jam . |
| 6 | At one village he was the only one of the appointed speakers to turn up . |
| 7 | On the evidence of our multiple regression analysis , partisanship exerted a consistently powerful influence on perceptions of Labour chances and by the end of the campaign it was the only remaining significant influence . |
| 8 | One Monday I was the only person out of four in the bar who was not unconscious . |
| 9 | Our Lady of the Snows was full of gilded pouting angels , but despite the heavy rain I was the only visitor , devout or otherwise . |
| 10 | My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child . |
| 11 | There 's more now but th at that period we were the only one left . |
| 12 | At first they operated alongside their toastrack predecessors , but in post-war years they were the only open cars in operation . |
| 13 | Men have always been hung up on breasts , especially American men , and in those days it was the only part of the body which could be shown . |
| 14 | He had an inkling he was the only one who could decipher the code . |
| 15 | Yeah , erm When I bought the shop in in nineteen sixty -six in Caldmore we were the only coloured people , as far as I can remember . |
| 16 | On 10 October I was the only visitor , but beware — it shuts from 15 October until 1 April . |
| 17 | In the older screw-type test machines it was the only feasible test program , but with modern servo-hydraulic machines very rapid rise time is possible and creep and stress-relaxation tests are feasible , as well as dynamic tests at a range of frequencies . |
| 18 | ( This was a soviet instrument , but in some ways it was the only real policy party in Iran , the others were the factions of certain politicians . ) |
| 19 | They followed him to the study because for economy it was the only fire in the house , but he worked through their conversation and did not join it . |
| 20 | She might n't be much , but in the self-awareness and independence stakes she was the only girl in town . |
| 21 | At one hut out of 40 occupants we were the only English-speaking ! |
| 22 | In both games it was the only goal , though for Berwick Rangers the end of 90 minutes may not be the end of 111 years . |
| 23 | It was in deficit in its trade with the outside world , calculated in Soviet domestic prices , but with its oil and other resources expressed in world market prices it was the only republic to have a positive balance in its trade with non-Soviet partners ; and it was the most economically self-sufficient of all the republics . |
| 24 | Ana was no doubt used to having a chaperon as she was blind , and in this case it was the only way they would be allowed to leave the proximity of the hacienda . |
| 25 | The fact that in the end we were the only ones to organise our own conference was something of a surprise , as were the vast numbers of participants we attracted , far beyond all expectations . |
| 26 | Ireland had been slipping out of Britain 's grasp — Sinn Fein had almost swept the board in the local elections , they had set up their own provisional government in Dublin and in some areas of the country theirs was the only authority recognised — and , on top of all that , in September alone there had been over two thousand IRA arms raids . |
| 27 | In January we were the first union to issue briefing notes on all six key health and safety regulations enacted at the beginning of the year we were the only trade union to put on a stand at the EuroSafe ninety three exhibition which was the main exhibition of the European year of health and safety this promoted the union 's approach to health and safety . |
| 28 | Miners , for example , maintained large families , 3.6 children in 1911 , despite the rapid general reduction in birthrate , and in the early twentieth century they were the only large category of workers whose families averaged over 3 . |
| 29 | The unemployment figures demonstrate that Northern Ireland was the only part of the United Kingdom that experienced no increase in unemployment ; the Cambridge econometric forecast shows that last year it was the only region that experienced any growth , and that this year it is likely to be one of four regions that will experience growth . |
| 30 | When the women were made redundant in 1981 , their weekly take-home pay averaged £55 and for half of the women it was the only wage in the household . |