Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the only way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The infirmaries at the plant were shut , Chernobyl 's medical centre was not equipped to take nuclear cases , there were few iodine pills to distribute — although they are the only way of preventing radioactive iodine from accumulating in the thyroid . |
| 2 | They looked at psychological processes simply because they were the only way of monitoring what the brain might be doing . |
| 3 | The fleapit at the centre of another Rose script , The Smallest Show on Earth ( 1957 , Big Time Operators in US ) , directed by Ealing 's Basil Dearden , is eventually burnt to the ground by its old commissionaire : ‘ It were the only way were n't it ’ , he says to the cooing couple who inherited the place in a town stinking of glue from the local factory , together with staff so lost in the past that they still enjoy looking at Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ The Rye . |
| 4 | Next day it 's the only way to get a ticket . |
| 5 | In the short term , he explains , ‘ Confrontation can be even more painful , but it 's the only way , in the end , to treat the underlying reason for over-spending . |
| 6 | She felt Jackie Tiptoe 's breath on her cheek and heard his whisper , ‘ Do n't fight , do n't think , make yourself into a machine , it 's the only way . ’ |
| 7 | I know lots of people ca n't understand that , one of which is my accountant , but I feel I must put something back , it 's the only way I can feel comfortable about all the money I 've made . ’ |
| 8 | It 's the only way to go : the mass-produced organic biodegradable surfboard . ’ |
| 9 | It 's the only way you can get at him . |
| 10 | It 's the only way you feel you can survive as a child . ’ |
| 11 | It 's the only way you 're going to get better . ’ |
| 12 | At the time it might be great and five years later I think , ‘ Why did I do that ? ’ but sometimes it 's the only way of finding something out . |
| 13 | But it 's the only way I know how to sing . ’ |
| 14 | He says it 's the only way they can survive . |
| 15 | The MCC do n't have players for selection as such , so it 's the only way we can honourably make our protest . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If there are book-keeping irregularities , then he has breached the Companies Act , which is where the DTI comes in and it 's the only way we can get rid of him . |
| 17 | It 's the only way to travel . |
| 18 | It 's the only way … . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's the only way . ’ |
| 20 | It 's the only way . ’ |
| 21 | I know it 's a cliche but we really do have to take it from game to game — it 's the only way . ’ |
| 22 | His land adjoins theirs for one thing , and more importantly , it 's the only way he can expand in this area to include substantial buildings . ’ |
| 23 | ( Adopting Alan Freeman voice ) Well , it 's the only way we can create the , er , new musical language that we knock together , roughshod , in the rehearsal room . |
| 24 | ‘ Just talking to myself , it 's the only way I can get any sensible conversation round here . ’ |
| 25 | It 's the only way out . |
| 26 | It looks like an insane risk , but it 's the only way to go , so the adventurers will do it eventually . |
| 27 | It 's the only way it works . ’ |
| 28 | It 's the only way . |
| 29 | I like to know the farmers and their landscape — it 's the only way I can paint Wales . ’ |
| 30 | It 's the only way we 'll get to talk to him tonight . ’ |