Example sentences of "it [verb] the only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of Aden was therefore precious in that it revealed the only alternative to acquiescence or schizophrenia : the political struggle . |
| 2 | Then it became the only way to work : shut mother out , shut out her demands , her outrages , concentrate , work . |
| 3 | In short , ‘ it offers the only way of experiencing essence ’ . |
| 4 | For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done . |
| 5 | In reality it contains the only mystery . |
| 6 | ‘ It seemed the only way to avoid a huge argument . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It seemed the only hope at the time , ’ he said lamely . |
| 8 | And the storm went on and on and on ; when finally relief came to the exhausted crews , it seemed the only recourse was to turn tail and head for home . |
| 9 | It seemed the only thing to do . |
| 10 | It seemed the only thing to do in face of what he said . |
| 11 | It seemed the only salvation for a country with a burgeoning population and limited arable land , wholly dependent upon irrigation . |
| 12 | Until it opened the only fun was stealing cars , fighting and smashing things up . |
| 13 | It marks the only point in the entire story where Abraham 's feelings are allowed to come anywhere near the surface . |
| 14 | But , as an exile friend says , threatening to throw himself in Chihana 's footsteps , ‘ It seems the only way the media will be interested is if something happens to someone else . ’ |
| 15 | Everton boss Howard Kendall is reluctant to allow a quality player to depart , but with the club almost £4 m in debt and gates falling it seems the only way he can gather sufficient funds . |
| 16 | Emergency admissions develop a momentum of their own , not least because in some areas it seems the only way to get a place in a local authority residential home ( Sinclair , 1988b ) . |
| 17 | It seems the only way round my problem . |
| 18 | Unless the EC decides to treat them as a special case , it seems the only way out for them will be to give the toys away . |
| 19 | But it seems the only accounts the cash ended up in , were his own secret ones in Florida and Spain . |
| 20 | It seems the only time I can ever talk to you is on the way to violin lessons and on the way back . " |
| 21 | ‘ If we can identify this Person Y … it seems the only thing to do . ’ |
| 22 | It seems the only thing which divides the underclass from the rest of society is cash . |
| 23 | It represented the only advance ever made towards perpetuity . |
| 24 | THIS Bernstein recording of Mahler 's Ninth Symphony is historic because it preserves the only occasion on which he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic , on October 4 , 1979 ( with a repeat the next evening ) . |
| 25 | The United States had taken the initiative in this development , since it appeared the only means by which the Americans could disengage gradually from Korea with some hope that the UN could produce a solution that would sustain south Korea for at least a limited period . |
| 26 | It said the only solution to endemic condensation was full insulation and constant heat — a " provocatively contentious and quite unacceptable " conclusion , confessed the report . |
| 27 | The majority are now unemployed , resources are few , but they can manage 50p a head for the garden , and for many of them it provides the only pleasure they have in life . |
| 28 | Since there were no fords and no other bridge , it controlled the only crossing of the Charente between Saintes and Tonnay-Charente . |