Example sentences of "[adv] be [art] only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 2 | Its leaders and pastors have long been the only people who can say what they think ; its press , although censored , is freer than the state media and its synods and congresses are the only places where people can openly discuss the problems in the country . |
| 3 | Yet the onus of preventing censorship already rests on the individual professional when policy statements and a code of professional conduct alone are the only weapons being applied against censorship . |
| 4 | That passage , like a few others , had ended at a stairway : up or down were the only choices . |
| 5 | An ultimate agit pop group , sat painfully pat at the confluence of three socialist realist orthodoxies : that there is a necessary and simple fit between pop culture and radical politics : that youth culture is a working-class phenomenon ; that black music alone is the only unembarrassing and legitimate basis for protest . |
| 6 | Never let your guard down was the only solace he offered . |
| 7 | Huy saw that to play along was the only way to get more information , and Surere had mentioned the protection of innocence as the mainstay of his creed often enough now for the scribe to make connections , though they were as yet half-formed , and his heart was inclined , at their birth , to reject them as falling too pat . |
| 8 | At the snowbound alpine inn of Kleine Scheidegg , Kartoffel had not been the only climber to get a taste of the good frau 's favours . |
| 9 | MARTIN EDWARDS has not been the only man in Manchester trying to sell something of a sporting nature . |
| 10 | Since the Second World War , however , the political control of rural councils has not been the only factor influencing the rate of rural house-building . |
| 11 | Of course , she has not been the only case . |
| 12 | The football authorities have not been the only ones to agonize over the impact of television on sport . |
| 13 | The revived concern for retributive justice has not been the only response to the failure of the rehabilitative ideal . |
| 14 | Revolutionary changes in weapon technology had not been the only reason for the reimposition of the Ten-Year Rule . |
| 15 | Yet in Japan this has not been the only reason for being able to use less energy to do the same job . |
| 16 | Charles Marovitz in It had not been the only reviewer from the left dissatisfied with the Royal Shakespeare Company 's US on the Vietnam war . |
| 17 | Statistical computing has not been the only impact of modern technology on epidemiology since 1965 . |
| 18 | It has certainly not been the only movement , nor has it always taken the same form or led to the same conclusions . |
| 19 | As we shall see in the following chapter , mechanization has not been the only process responsible for this , but by enabling the farmer to de-bureaucratize his farm and place greater emphasis on developing the personal loyalty of his workforce rather than relying upon regulations and sanctions , it has been an important contributory factor . |
| 20 | do n't obsess yourself with the idea that none of them ( Unionist MPs ) understand the view of the man in the street … there is plenty of soundness in the party inside the House … and , easy as it is to call everyone inside Parliamentarians , and to assume that everyone outside are the only judges … you will have to get inside before you realize the difficulties of the situation , or the value of the cool-headed men who still represent the Unionist party in the House , and remain independent of Cabinet influence … |
| 21 | Although monitored allocations of the kind suggested above are the only way to ensure that library policy is translated into practice , it would be unrealistic to believe that all authorities manage their budgets in this way . |
| 22 | It is likely that Wimpey-Gilbert will not be the only company to enter this field in the next few years . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's opened up the league , ’ Hamlin said , ‘ and we may not be the only ones to benefit . ’ |
| 24 | SHABBA AND ‘ The Specialist ’ may not be the only ones to respond with a terse ‘ Who he ? ’ when confronted by Scritti Politti , Green having kept such a low profile over the last three years . |
| 25 | Energy-producing states like Louisiana , Oklahoma and Texas will not be the only ones hit by a BTU tax . |
| 26 | Besides , you will not be the only ones . |
| 27 | Elderly people and chronically sick people in residential and nursing homes will not be the only ones to benefit . |
| 28 | But ahead of the squad came leaks that Gianluca Vialli and Gianluigi Lentini — the world 's most expensive players at a combined value of £25 million — will struggle to make the starting grid , and they may not be the only casualties . |
| 29 | This will not be the only lawsuit . |
| 30 | Efficiency need not be the only goal . |