Example sentences of "[adv] have [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 One only has to look at the halving of the value of the youth training allowance and the way in which young people between the ages of 16 and 18 can no longer claim benefit , including housing benefit .
2 To see how destructive such an inflation can be , one only has to look at the hyperinflation which occurred in Germany in 1922–23 .
3 They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that .
4 Marcus did n't care what Wilson said , you only had to look at the guy .
5 They only had to wince at the racket for 20 minutes or so .
6 You only have to look at a prole in this book and it rolls over to have its tummy tickled .
7 Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ?
8 ‘ I was a big baby — I 'm obviously meant to be this size ’ , ‘ all my family are big ’ , ‘ I 've tried every diet , they just do n't seem to work for me ’ , ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2lbs ( 0.9kg ) ! ’
9 ‘ You only have to look at a picture of him when he resigned and compare it with one from six months beforehand .
10 ‘ I know that , ’ Candy returned ruefully , ‘ and it 's always been the bane of my life that you can eat your way through a tuckshop without gaining a pound while I only have to look at a picture of a cream cake to make the scales groan . ’
11 - Elizabeth Rex , chairman of the Harwich Conservative Association ‘ You only have to look at the way we have annoyed the Establishment and the professions to gauge the success of our populist policies . ’
12 You only have to look at the press and television to see how impatient many in our society are .
13 Murder mysteries are something of a British tradition — you only have to look at the popularity of thriller novels and TV ‘ whodunits ? ’ , for example .
14 We only have to look at the interest being shown , especially in public sector institutions , in recruiting their students from a wide social background .
15 You only have to look at the balance sheet its treasurer John Lister will present to its annual meeting in December , a million pounds sitting on reserve .
16 You only have to look at the unemployment amongst married women who would like to be teachers .
17 You only have to look at the number of visitors going to places such as Nepal er to see the increase there , to see how important this connection be .
18 ‘ You only have to look at the number of players with top clubs in the present squad — Arsenal 's Steve Morrow is another example — and it 's obvious there 's hope for the future .
19 Inevitably there will be much improved functionality , and more features — you only have to look at the difference between DOS 4.01 and DOS 5 to see that .
20 The requirement of leave gives the court control over the proceedings from the very start , and because the respondent does not have to appear at the leave stage , it is relieved of the need to take any steps to get a weak claim struck out .
21 In other words , you do not have to look at every instrument continuously .
22 One does not have to look at the report which the hon. Member for Gordon has thrown away with such disdain .
23 The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality .
24 Hello seven three one eight , no Roger 's off duty at the moment it 's Chris here erm , he should be , hang on I 'll just have to look at the watch roster and check up on precisely what his movements are , erm just look through tomorrow and I can find the right page in the roster here , er , two thir yeah , he 'll be on tower , so he 'll be in first thing tomorrow from about seven , seven o'clock onwards .
25 One of the delights of being on holiday is not having to look at the clock .
26 I just have to look at the list of this cos I always tend to forget this .
27 But you just have to look at the chain stores to see how times have changed .
28 We shall also have to look at the electricity industry , where the Government produced two large generation companies solely to try to privatise nuclear power .
29 And i it may be , for instance , erm that he may even have to intervene at the modification stage if something was going seriously wrong .
30 We did n't have to stop at the ambulance station for the key because Dei already had it — one of the ambulance drivers being a cousin of his .
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