Example sentences of "only have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour now not only has to embrace the new agenda of electoral reform , political decentralisation and power-sharing , and a new Britain in Europe . |
| 2 | Unhealthy it most certainly is ( I have been prevailed upon to refrain from detailing how ) but one only has to say the magic word AIDS to realise the sad fact that the consequences of some homosexual intercourse are far from gay . |
| 3 | One only has to note the impressive erudition manipulated by the likes of Borges , Cortázar , Carpentier or Fuentes or the intertextual references that abound in the new narrative to realize that the Spanish-American writer has long since ceased to be a provincial and is now very much a citizen of the world . |
| 4 | To get back to Markowitz 's original proxy for the risk of a portfolio ( or for that matter an individual security ) , the standard deviation of the returns , one only has to find the square root of the total portfolio variance . |
| 5 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 6 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 7 | Thus , if pursuant to the will of X the property is vested in Y as legatee and Y subsequently sells the property for £550,000 , Y will only have made a taxable gain ( subject to the indexation allowance ) of £50,000 . |
| 8 | It may be that bizarre , self-destructive and anti-social behaviour which would once only have afflicted the true psychotic will increasingly come to typify what would otherwise have been purely neurotic disorders had they been internalized as hitherto . |
| 9 | Given the already appalling and growing rate of homelessness and lack of hostel facilities in London , when more people than ever will not only have to endure the freezing nights of the coming winter on the streets , but perhaps permanent homelessness , it was terrible to see the situation being exploited for a joke by your advertisement : ‘ Just the thing now the evenings are drawing in . |
| 10 | A final price ( striking price ) is chosen at which all the shares will be sold ( even those tendering higher prices for the shares will only have to pay the striking price ) . |
| 11 | The user does not only have to overcome the physical aspect of dependency , manifest in withdrawal symptoms , but also psychological dependence . |
| 12 | Even if " organizational unity " with the ILP had been carried through , this would at best only have doubled the small membership of the Communist Party . |
| 13 | Given these factors , any attempt to brand the Celtic Church heretical would only have entailed the complete loss of Ireland . |
| 14 | ‘ If she had married before she died , the sister would only have got a small legacy . |
| 15 | I took a last look round , then only had to kick the top edge of the kite up a little for it to take the wind and lift . |
| 16 | She only had to have the usual amount of arms and legs and to be able to see where she was going . |
| 17 | They only had to drop a wizened bean over their shoulders for a plant to spurt from the ground and rain pods at them . |
| 18 | You only have to take a little bit off ai n't enough to go under your nose . |
| 19 | The truth is ladies you only have to touch a bald man and you light up like Blackpool Tower . |
| 20 | But , you only have to earn a little bit and you lose your benefit . |
| 21 | I only have to wear the damned thing ! ’ |
| 22 | Consequently , we only have to change the objective function of P1 * to ( omitting constant terms ) . |
| 23 | To these people , we not only have to offer an attractive package but to be more visible , especially during these troubled times . |
| 24 | That 's all you have , that 's only have to have a little bit . |
| 25 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 26 | I ask this not because I believe that he does n't care passionately about Mahler 's music — you only have to hear the vocal exhortations with which he galvanises the Boston players at the most intense moments in the score to realise this . |
| 27 | All I would say to you is that the very small primary schools I not only have to doubt the financial viability , but I personally sometimes would doubt that the National Curriculum can be delivered to a school where you 've got an age range between five and eleven and you 've only got thirty or forty children , and that is a personal point of view , which I have , erm having seen many of our schools , and I believe that the problems that some of our large urban schools have , with thirty to a class packed in , is also something we should address and give careful thought to when we are resourcing education . |
| 28 | ‘ After all , I only have to make the right moves at the right time . ’ |