Example sentences of "[verb] the only [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This was no farmer 's son , she conceded , eager to court the only eligible female within twenty miles !
2 Poland has stopped building the only atomic plant it had in mind .
3 The Health Authority says it made the only logical decision .
4 Swinburne read Greek and took English metric in hand ; Rossetti brought in the Italian primitives ; Fitzgerald made the only good poem of the time that has gone to the PeoPle ; it is called , and is to a great extent , a translation or mistranslation .
5 , John ( 1814–1897 ) , mechanical engineer and inventor , was born at Todmorden , Lancashire , 11 September 1814 , the son of a cotton spinner who owned the only steam-driven mill in the area .
6 Washington Redskins remain the only unbeaten team in the NFL after winning 16–13 in overtime against the unlucky Houston Oilers .
7 On the playing front , Bann and Cookstown remain the only leading sides without a ‘ plastic home ’ , though each should nonetheless be expected to make an impression of sorts .
8 On the playing front , Bann and Cookstown remain the only leading sides without a ‘ plastic home ’ , though each should nonetheless be expected to make an impression of sorts .
9 To say however that this route supplies the only reliable way to knowledge is grossly to overstep its boundaries .
10 Accepting the only logical course of action the robots had shut down the machine , even though it meant they too sank into inertia as a consequence .
11 But she had not possessed the capacity to benefit from her revelation , and so bitterness , petulance and self-pity became the only possible responses .
12 In fact , because of the inadequacy of their quality control in production of condoms , and their inability to produce a contraceptive pill , abortion soon became the only normal form of birth-control .
13 ON THIS DAY : In 1154 , Nicolas Breakspear became the only English Pope , as Adrian IV .
14 The links between most of the aristocracy and the Crown have grown ever weaker , as the royal family progressively became the only special family in Britain .
15 In late November of that year , the first tenants moved into the building and the development almost immediately became the only award-winning refurbishment scheme in the Department of the Environment Housing Awards for 19891 , despite tough competition from more than four hundred entries .
16 He thinks the only good reason for enforcing statutes whose wisdom he doubts is to protect the legislature 's ability to coordinate social behaviour .
17 The sheer stolid , unimaginative common sense of the man ( stupidity , to his lively young mate Jukes ) brought the ship through appalling seas and produced the only possible solution to the confusion into which the typhoon had thrown the precious dollars of his Chinese passengers .
18 The 1970 season produced the only posthumous champion in the history of F1 , Jochen Rindt , who was killed in practice at Monza .
19 In terms of a human life-span , the development of a hill-slope takes a very long time , and one could not stay around long enough to test alternative theories of hill-slope development if observation of processes acting on the present landscape produced the only relevant data .
20 And , to add the final touch , Phillips 's insight had filled the only remaining gap by proposing , albeit in skeletal form , an empirical model of inflation which was to be theoretically fleshed out by Lipsey .
21 It represents the only available medium whereby effect can be given to the instinctive need to control its progress that mankind seeks .
22 ( d ) if the market in the target 's shares is illiquid , a small discount to market value may succeed on the basis that market trades are not a reliable barometer in any event and an offer represents the only feasible exit for investors ; and
23 It has not shifted the old Labour image and habits towards the new kind of social-democratic space that has begun to emerge in some European countries , and which represents the only real alternative for the left that wants to govern in the next post-Maastricht decade .
24 The dotted line A-C-D — E represents the only sensible route .
25 So that is what he did in the Commons yesterday as he launched the Maastricht debate , not realising the only relevant list was the one to starboard as his Government had been holed below the waterline .
26 Some schools may come to consider that the hard sell offers the only feasible way of gaining a firm position in the ‘ market-place ’ , because it would be naïve to hold to the unrealistic idea that most schools can respond to the new spirit of competition by quickly raising standards to improve their school 's popularity .
27 What we see is a brand new opportunity for OSF which , after all , offers the only large-scale alternative for a vendor-independent Unix-like operating system .
28 Proponents of relocation , however , say that it offers the only long-term chance for the rhino to recover .
29 But Philip stated that Hanna Instruments make the only available Phosphate test kit in the Uk , at a cost of around £20 .
30 I mean the only other thing we could do would be
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