Example sentences of "the only way [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way for him to be true to his sexuality was to go abroad . |
| 2 | Many people take their careers extremely seriously because it is the only way for them to establish who and what they are . |
| 3 | Twenty years too late and they found a thousand ways to stop the rise of Hitler , it was the only way for them to keep sane , the survivors . |
| 4 | Now , such a humbling would not be easy for Ruth and Naomi but it was the only way for them . |
| 5 | ‘ I have found Moral Re-Armament to be the only way for our country . |
| 6 | The only way for it to look any different is for Michael to learn the bloody lines . |
| 7 | The only way into his protective case was through a little trap door he kept locked night and day . |
| 8 | It is the dam , however , that makes this virtually impregnable for the only way into it is from the lake through a tunnel that opens underwater . |
| 9 | in the mountain bike competitions they , they show them going over rocks and they have to jump them , the only way over it is to jump them |
| 10 | Thus the only way by which the government might achieve a higher level of output would be by cheating , by not following the rule it says it will follow . |
| 11 | In general , the only way by which you can become acquainted with the correspondence student is through the student 's attempts at solutions and possibly by questions on specific difficulties . |
| 12 | As others in the class were quick to respond , the only way by which one knows that a country is unique is by comparing it with others . |
| 13 | Where such restrictions exist , the setting up of a subsidiary may be the only way around them . |
| 14 | If your elderly parent is in the habit of doing this , the only way around it is to tell her quite frankly , as kindly as possible ( even at the risk of giving some offence ) , that there are certain times of the day when it is very difficult for you to make or receive phone calls except in an emergency . |
| 15 | The only way in which we can help is having a Labour government that has a policy to secure verifiable arms reductions . |
| 16 | Although Lord Rees-Mogg 's confession that he is not a modernist can just about explain his neglect of artists such as Schoenberg , Proust , Kafka , Beckett and Auden , sheer ignorance is the only way in which one can account for the omission of Charles Sherrington , Alan Hodgkin , Lord Adrian and David Hubel , to name but four in neurophysiology ; Rutherford , Bohr , Planck , Heisenberg , Dirac and Gell-Man in physics . |
| 17 | Indeed , the only way in which a society can come to terms with its conflicting values is to prefer one value in some circumstances and another in different conditions . |
| 18 | The only way in which it even faintly stirs your brain cells is in causing you to wonder what on earth it 's doing on the stage at Watford . |
| 19 | It may be the only way in which I get what I want in my life . |
| 20 | Because the resources of the Redundant Churches Fund are fairly slight related to the large number of churches which are falling into disuse , it should be equally clear that conversion is often the only way in which a creditable building can be saved from complete destruction through neglect and vandalism . |
| 21 | That is a pity : the price of financial distress is just about the only way in which the cost of capital for firms plausibly differs between the two rivals over the longer term . |
| 22 | But we shall see that , since 1925 , this is not possible ( see p. 86 ) , so that the only way in which future interests in any kind of property can be created is through the machinery of a trust . |
| 23 | This has always been the only way in which future interests in personal property can be created . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But the dismissive reactions of the French were by no means the only way in which foreigners described the Scots . |
| 26 | The only way in which this could happen is by chance in a small population : outsiders do come in at long odds . |
| 27 | ‘ … the impracticability of individual copyright holders administering their performing rights effectively means that membership of a performing right society is the only way in which composers , songwriters and music publishers can adequately protect their rights and receive what is due to them for the public use of their work . ’ |
| 28 | It is , the theory goes , the only way in which to beat the Conservatives . |
| 29 | The only way in which she has made any reference to what happened during the night has been in the form of two pictures . |
| 30 | For a long time the only way in which a truly selfless behaviour could arise seemed to be through a differential advantage accruing to groups of individuals that showed sacrifice in relation to their companions to a degree greater than in other groups . |