Example sentences of "[pron] [that] only the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 2 | I do sympathise with the problem that that the local residents have there but I I dare say closing off the road would n't be a very good idea but it is something that only the county council can do and the county council have said that they will not do this in advance of the southern relief road being built so I think that really is simply . |
| 3 | It is the unheard-of , something that only the author knows : the vital knowledge that gives the author control over both the characters and the readers of the book . |
| 4 | Some instinct told her that only the truth could save them now ; that the time for evasions was over . |
| 5 | They are so far away from us that only the poet can understand them . |