Example sentences of "be [pers pn] the only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , am am I the only person to whom a lot of this is news ? |
| 2 | Am I the only person in the world who feels so strongly ? |
| 3 | ‘ I have done all those evil things , but am I the only person who has done wrong ? |
| 4 | If I can just join in the Scum-bashing here , am I the only person that thinks Sharpe is the most over-rated piece of crap ever to have pulled on a red shirt ( and they 've had quite a few ) ? |
| 5 | Am I the only guy in here who can read ? |
| 6 | Are you the only person to receive it , Minister , or do n't you know ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Are you the only lodger ? ’ she asked . |
| 8 | I mean , are we the only ones who heard the SOS ? |
| 9 | Are we the only dogs chosen for our star signs or have any of you had this star treatment ? |
| 10 | So they 're the only ones you want to get rid of or are they the only ones you 've got ? |
| 11 | Were you the only person fishing in Hills Bay ? |
| 12 | Were they the only people that used to use it like that ? |
| 13 | Elections were not the only occasions when those below the level of the elite could give voice to their political inclinations , nor were they the only points of contact between the world " out-of-doors " and that of Westminster . |
| 14 | Were they the only agent or were there other agents ? |
| 15 | Is it the only way telecommunications will develop in Europe ? ’ asked Marcel Roulet , president of France Telecom . |
| 16 | ’ But why is it the only time you take risks is when you 're likely to make a profit. ? ’ |
| 17 | Is he the only geophysics supervisor to have suffered the misfortune of losing a student to the great geophysicist in the sky ? |
| 18 | If there was one ( albeit very small ) consolation about the sale of Dave Batty , it was that it finally did away with an important inferiority complex of mine — was I the only person in West Yorkshire not to be best mates with the man ? ? |
| 19 | Er it was I the only thing that that brought it to mind was Ann herself stumbled over it as she said it you know playwright |
| 20 | Was she the only person in the world who felt that love was too precious a commodity to cheapen by offering it as a stake in a game where the prize was emotional titillation ? |
| 21 | Was he the was he the only singer- songwriter in the country or something then ? |
| 22 | Nor was he the only imperialist of his day of whom it might have been said , as one of his biographers said of him , that he had ‘ a genius for backing into the limelight ’ . |
| 23 | Did Cook achieve all this without competition , was he the only excursion agent in business in the second half of the nineteenth century ? |
| 24 | Was he the only son ? |
| 25 | Nor was it the only way in which he was inadequate as a Christian ruler . |
| 26 | Nor was it the only deduction : there were charges for seaming the stockings , for use of a corner of the master knitter 's workshop , for needles , candles , oil , coals and for the expenses involved in collecting in work . |