Example sentences of "[been] [art] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , in rural areas today , the Orange hall has frequently been the only place where protestants of all shades have met to renew their belief and commitment to Ulster protestant loyalism ( Harris 1972 : 162–5 ) . |
| 2 | Newman came to the answer Rome ; the former friends he left behind in the Church of England replied that the early undivided Church had been the only one wholly to contain this supernatural essence . |
| 3 | Rob McKinnon had been the only Hartlepool player not pilloried in that game , and the 23-year-old left-back was the most impressive player again . |
| 4 | Its leaders and pastors have long been the only people who can say what they think ; its press , although censored , is freer than the state media and its synods and congresses are the only places where people can openly discuss the problems in the country . |
| 5 | MARTIN EDWARDS has not been the only man in Manchester trying to sell something of a sporting nature . |
| 6 | of the union 's total membership , approximately half are under the age of 30. since the advent of rock in the 1950s and 1960s , the union has been the only independent organization to give service , protection and advice to rock musicians . |
| 7 | Have you ever been the only punter in a big cinema ? |
| 8 | The football authorities have not been the only ones to agonize over the impact of television on sport . |
| 9 | And Robert Donat can not have been the only one who complained to Korda about a ‘ silly and unproductive attitude towards scripts ’ , which he credited as being at ‘ the root of the failure of so many British films . ’ |
| 10 | Revolutionary changes in weapon technology had not been the only reason for the reimposition of the Ten-Year Rule . |
| 11 | This has always been the only way in which future interests in personal property can be created . |
| 12 | The thought passed through her head that those two women might have been the only ones he had ever loved . |
| 13 | It had been Eleanor , quiet , firm , devoted whom Dorothea had loved , and Eleanor had been the only living person whose presence she could bear when Hallam died a year after their coming to Haverstock . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 16 | Flat batteries have been the only problem . |
| 17 | Prior to that , guilds had been the only groupings of workers . |
| 18 | At the time it would have been the only glittering example of this technique north of the Alps . |
| 19 | There are certainly cases where this would seem to have been the only possible method of transmission , but the extent of the risk is hard to quantify . |
| 20 | For more than three thousand million years , DNA has been the only replicator worth talking about in the world . |
| 21 | Yet this has not been the only old law turned to by the police . |
| 22 | This must have been the only time John ever had his work discussed in detail by a choreographer of Balanchine 's gifts and experience , and although Buckle described him as ‘ looking somewhat quelled ’ his nature was such as to profit from it . |
| 23 | Yet in Japan this has not been the only reason for being able to use less energy to do the same job . |
| 24 | To date , that has been the only way — mass starvation , disease , AIDS , wars and insurrection , enforced transmigration and so on . |
| 25 | In 1944–45 , the old hutted Emergency Hospital at Hexham near the Roman Wall had been the only home I had . |
| 26 | It seems to have been the only scheme to attempt an irregular solution , with recessed fronts to both offices towards the east and west sides of the site . |
| 27 | Here in particular one can find an increase which merely reflects new legislation affecting causes for divorce — for example , the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1937 which introduced desertion , cruelty and incurable insanity as further grounds for divorce , adultery having previously been the only one . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The press release the editors sent me was acceptable , but I may have been the only person to get it . |
| 30 | The beginning of civilisation was almost certainly a mental development which came long before it affected man 's physical abilities , and it could well have been the moment when for the first time , a primitive creature found that he could override and control the instinctive urge to act , which up to that time would have been the only source of motivation . |