Example sentences of "have only [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see and support British effort , one has only to look at the Chelsea Show which starts on May 25 , where the National Farmers Union stand is so impressive with the huge pyramid of vegetables , fruit and flowers . |
| 2 | One has only to look at the regularity with which courses on modelling now appear on the MRS lists . |
| 3 | One has only to look at the United States , where they take sex education very seriously but seem to have got everything wrong , with the most appalling results to the nation 's health . |
| 4 | To illustrate this one has only to look at the account of a pupil pursuit in a school which had thought through clearly its broad curriculum and made plans accordingly . |
| 5 | One has only to look at the contradictions between the rich north and the starving south ; between capitalist industry 's ceaseless drive for higher productivity and the health of the biosphere ; those contradictions at the heart of the EC ( the ERM , the battles over farming and fishing , etc ) ; and the fierce struggle over world trade in GATT , which will soon break out again . |
| 6 | But then I had one of my rare good ideas : why not try ringing up those breeders who had only advertised at the beginning of the breeding season , about six months before ? |
| 7 | In his sermons the Chaplain of Cadets had only hinted at the existence of terrible ultimate anti-Gods which stalked the warp , seeking to spill through into the cosmos to corrupt precious reality — the antithesis of all that the Emperor stood for ; forces which Marines should pray that they never encountered . |
| 8 | However , a few managers , probably because of the pressure of work , had only looked at the business plan the night before . ’ |
| 9 | It brought both of the Lorrimores to their feet in an incredulous rush , but they had only to look at the faces crowding behind her to know it was true . |
| 10 | I had only to look at the farmer 's face to know that the cow was worse . |
| 11 | Ultimately , however , it is easy for readers to charge that the mask was not penetrated , and therefore that we have only scratched at the surface . |
| 12 | We have only to look at the animal kingdom ; a creature in the wild will never overeat and , even if it has had to put effort into the hunting and killing of its prey , it will stop eating when it has had enough and walk away from the food . |
| 13 | You have only to look at the shape and solidness of a barbel to see where he gets his speed and power . |
| 14 | We have only to look at the string of sell-offs of assets of the former National Bus Company groups after privatisation to demonstrate conclusively that those are not far-fetched fears or exaggerated concerns . |
| 15 | The illegals have only to look at the plight of the large Korean minority — 690,000 of Japan 's 1.1 million registered foreign residents — to know they will never be accepted in this xenophobic land . |