Example sentences of "only [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not the only one with the same idea , because on arriving at Clarendon Road there was quite a sizeable crowd , just gazing at the still smouldering ruin of a terrace of five houses . |
| 2 | Through the three days of their charter , Gomez was the only one of the four Latinos with whom Trent had formed the slightest relationship . |
| 3 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 4 | At one village he was the only one of the appointed speakers to turn up . |
| 5 | France had been the major supporter of Euratom ; as the only one of the Six already possessing a nuclear programme , it obviously hoped to benefit most from the joint funding of the Community and to establish a domination of the nascent industry . |
| 6 | Morgan was the only one of the nineteenth-century anthropologists who , like Marx , was interested in what led to the transformation of one social system into another , and in what led to the breakup of past systems . |
| 7 | Japan is the only one of the 37 Ramsar signatories not to involve environmental organisations in drawing up its report to the convention . |
| 8 | Miloš was not the only one of the former rebels who was given a post in the new administration . |
| 9 | The right-wing populist Progress Party is the only one of the eight parliamentary parties opposed to the treaty . |
| 10 | With his lovely wife Eva beside him in the co-pilot 's seat , Dan Knight was the only one of the original ten crew members aboard . |
| 11 | Apart from his former wife , Mr Edward Stratton was the only one of the original group who had not listened to Morse that morning . |
| 12 | He was the only one of the original cast in it . |
| 13 | But it was the only one of the 12 Community members to show an improvement . |
| 14 | Ian , 73 , was the only one of The Few to bid a final farewell to the base . |
| 15 | It is the only one of the old British colonial banks to have made good in the modern world . |
| 16 | Kuznetsk recovered from its period in the doldrums ; in fact it was the only one of the old Siberian forts apart from Tobolsk to be rebuilt in stone , since it formed the terminus of the most easterly section of the fortifications . |
| 17 | The late Sir Peter Scott was the founder , in 1961 ( WWF is the only one of the Big Three which has British origins ) , and international headquarters are in Gland , Switzerland , in the same building as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN ) , with which it has close relations ( and which , in turn , is close to UNEP ) . |
| 18 | Barton was the only one of the three to make it as far as the quarters , but he still had to come through another two heats to overhaul Hardman 's tally of points . |
| 19 | I was the only one of the three who had any confidence in Burmese , and so was able to be bilingual in teaching and in giving notes . |
| 20 | This was the only one of the three language efforts for which I received any payment ; in this case an honorarium from the Burma Government of thirty pounds . |
| 21 | As no great lover of period instruments for Beethoven sonatas , I anticipated that it would be in the second in D minor ( the only one of the three to betray the darkness from which it grew in 1802 ) that I would be most aware of limited powers of expression . |
| 22 | He had begun retaining from Middleham ( the only one of the three lordships for which evidence survives ) by August 1471 , when he feed the earl 's auditor and councillor Thomas Metcalfe , and further indentures followed in the course of the autumn and winter . |
| 23 | Ballymacarrett was the only one of the three areas in which there was a clear and consistent correspondence between the strength of a person 's network structure and his or her use of vernacular ( or casual ) variants . |
| 24 | May I point out to my right hon. Friend that the Royal Air Force is the only one of the three western air forces with significant operational experience since world war two — the other two are the Israeli and the United States air forces — not to have combat-ready reserve squadrons ? |
| 25 | Zhu Rongji , the only one of the three new standing committee members with thorough reformist credentials , was a former mayor of Shanghai and was appointed as a Vice-Premier and economics expert at Deng 's behest in April 1991 [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 26 | The only one of the three daughters around was Dorothy , who acted as our guide and mentor and came with us , first on a visit to Speight 's Brewery which was memorable for the guide , who delivered her monologue in a deadpan voice and an accent so broad that even Dorothy had trouble understanding it , heaven knows what all the Japanese tourists made of it ! — and second , on the Taieri Gorge railway , an afternoon 's ride up into Central Otago , with stops along the way . |
| 27 | He had begun retaining from Middleham ( the only one of the three lordships for which evidence survives ) by August 1471 , when he feed the earl 's auditor and councillor Thomas Metcalfe , and further indentures followed in the course of the autumn and winter . |
| 28 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 29 | It is also of relevance however because it is the only one of the experimental areas that deals principally with a town centre and thus with functions that are as much commercial and retail as they are residential . |
| 30 | Glasgow City Brightsiders are the only one of the leading men 's sides in action and they can overtake Edinburgh Burger Kings at the top of the men 's first division if , as they should , they take care of the young Cumnock team at Cumnock Academy tomorrow . |