Example sentences of "[pers pn] is the only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His is the only war grave in the churchyard adjoining the 11th century church at Colleville-sur-Mer . |
| 2 | Let me remind the cynics opposite that yours is the only Group on this Council which has voted against our proposals on disability . |
| 3 | Just be prepared for Connemara enthusiasts to tell you that theirs is the only breed worth bothering about , Welsh Cob experts too insist that nothing compares with a good Section D and Highland/Fell/Dales etc exhibitors feel exactly the same ! |
| 4 | It has always bred sturdy , original thinkers ; theirs is the only country to have declared bankruptcy , in the depths of the Great Depression . |
| 5 | ‘ Why do Americans always think theirs is the only country that 's part of the modern world ? ’ |
| 6 | I saw my first reed bunting 's nest in 1964 in the marsh between the lochs of Spiggie and Brow , and now in the space of twenty-five years they have successfully colonised the islands , and theirs is the only bunting song that today 's Shetland children will know … |
| 7 | Outgoing and engaging , she is the only girl in a household of brothers and confessed to being the pet of the family . |
| 8 | ‘ Does n't the Prime Minister realise that she is the only person in this whole shameful episode that ca n't make the excuse that I was only obeying orders , because she was the person giving the orders — and the orders are tyrannical . ’ |
| 9 | The teacher always has to operate within a number of constraints such as agreed syllabuses , governors ' wishes , heads of department , parental pressures , and so on , which mean that he or she is the only person who is competent to decide on content and method . |
| 10 | She is the only daughter of Dierdriu , and the rightful High Queen of Ireland . ’ |
| 11 | Jaguar 's appearance and condition belie her age and we believe she is the only Swan 65 sloop in the market . |
| 12 | She is the only woman in the world for me . |
| 13 | She is the only pop star of any sex who has been shrewd enough to re-invent herself successfully at 18- months interval since David Bowie in the Seventies . |
| 14 | It is the only god she knows . |
| 15 | In fact , in the mature Italian dried pasta market it is the only sector showing a substantial increase . ’ |
| 16 | It is the only road building scheme the council is proceeding with this financial year . ’ |
| 17 | She ushered us ( it is the only word ) into the sort of room I had n't expected : rather dark and made darker by heavy period furniture and subdued lighting . |
| 18 | Indeed , it is the only word processor on the Mac that we would use were it not for the fact that no other software speaks its format . |
| 19 | Yet it is the only word to describe the playing of the Borodin Piano Trio on Sunday evening in the final concert of the Teesside Music Society . |
| 20 | Though it is the only staircase in the house , so hard is the wood that 450 years of treading have worn no hollows in the steps … |
| 21 | It is the only opportunity . |
| 22 | To a great majority of those persons with whom they come in contact it is the only opportunity afforded of learning what Oxford means and what is meant by the powers of an Oxford education . |
| 23 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 24 | ‘ It is the only drug which damages the nerve terminals in the brain . |
| 25 | Similarly , the universe may not be in the state defined by a sum over nonsingular histories , but it is the only state in which science could predict how the universe should be . |
| 26 | I thank Heavenly Father , for it is the only escape I can think of . |
| 27 | The EC Council of Ministers needs to establish a general mechanism for negotiating with Switzerland now that it is the only country in Europe that has neither EC nor EEA status . |
| 28 | There is no doubt that Britain does lead , in the sense that it is the only country with a comprehensive framework of race relations law . |
| 29 | However , as it is the only qualification in this area , we have endless problems in discouraging people from attributing to it all sorts of accreditations for which it was not designed and have to point out that it does not qualify people to interpret , give advice or act on behalf of others . |
| 30 | It is the only substance , liquid at normal temperatures , which expands when it solidifies or freezes — a property shared only by diamond , silicon and germanium , three solids whose structures are related to that of ice . |