Example sentences of "[was/were] not the only [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That phrase from An Outcast of the Islands is a reminder that Heart of Darkness was not the only Conrad novel in Eliot 's mind during this period . |
| 2 | Main was not the only excise officer resident in Inverkeithing , and the Cunningham party , while continuing to press for Main 's reinstatement , did not neglect the remainder of the excise establishment . |
| 3 | Kuwait was not the only GCC society to be affected by the war . |
| 4 | Chichester was not the only Sussex town to feel the pinch of economic decay . |
| 5 | But it was not the only rainforest tree to fall on that day . |
| 6 | But he was not the only finance minister in the world to do that . |
| 7 | The search for dollars led to grandiose plans for African economic development , most famously the groundnuts scheme , though that was not the only madcap project to surface in this period . |
| 8 | Many of the women wept unashamedly , for Tristram was not the only Polruan boy to be going to sea for the first time . |
| 9 | But Morgan was not the only merchant bank in favour . |