Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 2 | Two half-run strides took her to the only way out : the lift . |
| 3 | Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained . |
| 4 | He saw it as the only realistic long term solution to Selborne 's dilemma . |
| 5 | Faced with narrow options , the Chancellor broadened them in the only way realistically open to him — chronologically . |
| 6 | It obviously recognized him as the only being that had ever showed it kindness . |