Example sentences of "have only [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You have only to hop over the wall to reach them , supposing their dogs do n't get you . ’ |
| 2 | phenomena which have only arisen in the period of advanced capitalism in which the state has intervened directly both in the organization of production and in consumption . |
| 3 | Such energies have only existed in the fraction of a second after the Big Bang . |
| 4 | They are products , that is , of the use of state power in civil society and as such they have only appeared in the period since Marx and Weber were writing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You have only to look at the shape and solidness of a barbel to see where he gets his speed and power . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You have only to look down the hall at this moment . ’ |
| 11 | We have only to look around the Chamber to know that this Parliament is finished ; it is dead . |
| 12 | The players also have only praise for the man and his methods . |
| 13 | You have only to think of the situation in which a mother is terrified of thunder and panics whenever she hears it , rushing to close the curtains and to cower in the corner of the room . |
| 14 | Since then , I have only translated for the stage . |
| 15 | He believes standards have only slipped in the case of a few companies , but that the press tends to seize on these examples and blow them up out of all proportion . |