Example sentences of "[vb past] be the only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swam is the only word . |
| 2 | ‘ He was glad that Sigarup had come , because up to now he 'd been the only patient staying and , alone at night , he was terrified of ghosts — of the restless souls of all the people who must have died there , far from their homes and families . ’ |
| 3 | What followed was the only bit of gamesmanship you could accuse Lee Trevino of . |
| 4 | Her ability to repeat what she heard was the only language task which she could perform at all well . |
| 5 | But if a matter came to a head that withdrawing my labour was the only way to resolve it , that I thought was the only way to resolve it , I 'd go out and do it again . |
| 6 | Dudley Clarke had been the only casualty , hit in the ear , which had been sewn back in place by a petty officer as the boat left the beach . |
| 7 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
| 8 | Had his need , like hers , kept him sleepless , the memory of other nights firing his flesh till a cold shower in the middle of the night had been the only relief ? |
| 9 | Honey had been the only sweetener ; sugar had been as expensive as cinnamon or cloves and it could be taxed as a luxury in the firm belief that this would not make life harder for the working classes who were not thought to be consumers of sugar , though this was clearly changing in the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | The previous regime had refused to accept any such responsibility on the grounds that the Federal Republic had been the only successor state to the Third Reich . |
| 11 | Faith had been the only sister to visit regularly , for Isabel and Kathleen were afraid , afraid of sickness and infirmity , of germs and ill-health and old age and death . |
| 12 | North Yemen had been the only country to contribute troops to support Iraq during the Gulf war . |
| 13 | In 1944–45 , the old hutted Emergency Hospital at Hexham near the Roman Wall had been the only home I had . |
| 14 | Despite the odds against her , she would have persevered if that had been the only hope of tracing her sister . |
| 15 | In this sense , all the diverse myths of classical tragedy are equally Dionysiac , and the same applies to the tragic heroes : for a long time , Dionysus had been the only character represented in the early drama , its only hero , and , until Euripides , all the different suffering heroes of tragedy were still " mere masks of this original hero " . |
| 16 | She had been the only passenger to alight from the two carriage train which she could still hear dimly in the distance , chuffing its way over the Severn Bridge on its way to Lydney . |
| 17 | She felt she was honour bound , as hostess , to keep the conversation going , and the mention of the poor man who had had to endure Harry Burrows moaning in a sheet beneath his windows had been the only topic to cling to her memory . |
| 18 | For a start she had been the only woman , and her colleagues had found it strange that she should be working with them . |
| 19 | Aleksandra Biryukova retired as a Deputy Chair of the USSR Council of Ministers ( in which she had been the only woman out of 69 members ) and as Chair of the Bureau for Social Development on Sept. 17 . |
| 20 | She was highly delighted , especially when she learned that she had been the only woman called for interview ; she had been certain that the job would go to one of the male applicants . |
| 21 | The chaise longue had been the only piece to survive unscathed . |
| 22 | Since 1980 the Standard had been the only survivor of the flourishing trio in 1945 . |
| 23 | It was not because I was particularly pious , but rather because my namesake , Nicholas Breakspear , had been the only Englishman who had ever become Pope . |
| 24 | Although in theory we do not know how it would have turned out if that had been the only option available to Mr. Thorpe , we know that the principles are clearly set out in the health service management documents and at a political level by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 25 | It seemed to me that the man I recently left was the only person that I did know . ’ |
| 26 | He spent most of his spare time up at Skiplam , where the girl he courted was the only child of a wealthy farmer . |