Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another result of the ease and availability of the Pill is an assumption that this is more or less the only method of birth control . |
| 2 | But , as James Fenton wrote in a piece about The Killing Fields published in Tatler , with specific reference to Al Rockoff : ‘ More or less the only thing you do is try to get as close as possible to people who are killing each other — and take photographs of them . |
| 3 | However , I now realise that perhaps the only person who felt intimidated by ‘ FE for all ’ was me . |
| 4 | Indeed , the pattern of research work in the humanities and social sciences is such that perhaps the only generalisation which can be made is that no article or book is written using only the resources of one library , still less the home library of a researcher 's institution . |
| 5 | Does my hon. Friend agree that probably the only economy in which full employment was implemented was the Soviet Union , where those who did not have a job were usually found somewhere to go , such as Siberia or the Gulag archipelago ? |
| 6 | It really appears to me that almost the only thing in the world which other men do but which Frenchmen can not , is the making of drains and sewers . |
| 7 | While other newspapers were wrongly calling it a second honeymoon , TODAY revealed that virtually the only time the couple acknowledged each other was when Diana intercepted a phone call from Charles to Mrs Parker-Bowles and a screaming row erupted . |
| 8 | That it is inconceivable that after this number of centuries man still believes that ultimately the only way in which problems are solved is by blowing the other chap 's head off , which is so lunatic now . |
| 9 | Certainly , once the Crown has been depersonalized to the point where it is synonymous with ‘ the government ’ , it is unnecessary and undesirable that coercive remedies designed to control government activity should not be available against the Crown which is the government , and that ultimately the only sanction for government compliance with the law should be political . |
| 10 | And so the only communication I shall have with him is by letter , but er it 's the third of |
| 11 | ‘ Many sub-units of companies simply can not be measured by revenue , contributions to profits , or costs related to output units … for a department of this kind , the best and perhaps the only measure of performance is achievement of predetermined programmes within budgets . ’ |
| 12 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 13 | He therefore considered them of a tradition quite different from that form of conservatism — so admirably defined by Russell Kirk in his study Eliot and his Age ( 1971 , 1984 ) — which , as Eliot said to me more than once , was the best and perhaps the only defence against the extremes of Communism and Fascism . |
| 14 | Modigliani worked on the painting , an unusually long time for him and perhaps the only time when he agreed to ‘ continue ’ a painting . |
| 15 | He has n't seen her before , and perhaps the only woman he 's seen me with is his mother . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , many astrophysicists remain unconvinced by the current evidence , and perhaps the only point of general agreement is that the nucleus does not contain a black hole as massive as those expected to reside in extinct quasars . |
| 17 | They do n't about that when they 're in the middle of a dramatic crisis and they 've fallen out and perhaps the only thing they know about is how to go about getting a divorce and you see a lawyer and so on . |
| 18 | The benign types , 6 and 11 , are found in condylomas and low grade intraepithelial neoplasia but are seldom if ever the only virus types in invasive carcinomas . |
| 19 | The surgeon 's knife was to be the first act , and possibly the only act , of that no one could be certain . |
| 20 | As you will appreciate , the best and possibly the only time to carry out such projects is the spring/ early summer period , partly because of the weather , partly because volunteers tend not to be available in the summer . |
| 21 | obtained the first , and still the only surface images of the planet . |
| 22 | There 's a new cross-country spike , a fell show and still the only triathlon specific shoe on the market in the Kona Coast . |
| 23 | However , these cases will be rare , and probably the only exception encountered with any frequency will be the appointment of a company 's auditors to value its shares . |
| 24 | Although some attempt is made to design an instrument which serves the needs of primary school leavers as well as secondary school entrants , the main official purpose of the exercise , and practically the only purpose which interests teachers or children , is to select entrants for secondary school . |
| 25 | Erm and really the only way I thought that I could prevent myself from doing anything like that was to kill myself in a very violent way because I |
| 26 | It 's completely comprehensive and really the only thing I would say in addition to that is er there are further meetings coming up . |
| 27 | Maybe you were tempted to take handheld shots on telephoto — perhaps with a very good reason , lions in a zoo are not very approachable and often the only way to shoot them in close-up is with a long-focus lens . |
| 28 | Conditions on the factories were hard , long hours were worked and often the only form of lighting used on dark mornings or afternoons was a simple oil lamp with a guttering smokey flame . |
| 29 | Up until now the only badger I 'd ever seen was dead on the side of the road . |
| 30 | ‘ Encounters ’ rarely result in any police casualties and invariably the only witness to these alleged events are the security forces themselves . |