Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should also be noted that breaches tend to have a ‘ ripple effect ’ and that a practitioner who does not fully understand his obligations has only to proffer one piece of investment advice ( which may in itself be perfectly sound ) and he will almost certainly have breached several regulations in the process . |
| 2 | One has only to recall such beautiful horn solos as that in the Andante of Tchaikovsky 's 5th Symphony , and Mendelssohn 's Nocturne from the Midsummer Night 's Dream music , to mention but two examples , to realise this . |
| 3 | One has only to read recent editions of Climber and Hill Walker to see evidence of atrocious behaviour by climbers and walkers : abuse , noise , breaking down fences , fouling areas with litter and excrement and climbing in areas when specifically requested to desist for good safety reasons — at Cheddar and Upper Pentrwyn . |
| 4 | One has only to read these two subsections to appreciate that in appeals in respect of contempt , the court has a complete discretion fettered only by the need to do justice . |
| 5 | Lillywhite has only to survive 50 more miles round a city centre circuit in Manchester to don the final Yellow Jersey . |
| 6 | An official has just to take one look , and know she 'll give in at once . |
| 7 | Monie is without Shaun Edwards ( broken thumb ) , Martin Dermott ( elbow ) and Neil Cowie ( groin ) plus Test prop Andy Platt , who is out of contract and has still to agree new terms . |
| 8 | For all their clout — and Garth Brooks last year sold 17% of all the records sold by EMI — country has still to win critical acceptance . |
| 9 | Privatisation threatens if the Tories return to power ; their new-found enthusiasm for rail has still to find clear expression in funding priorities ; and commuter grousing continues unabated . |
| 10 | But the Secretary of State has clearly to consider other aspects of the early release of a prisoner serving a sentence of imprisonment . |
| 11 | The Authority missed the opportunity to use PNP resources to bring about change here : it needs now to explore other avenues . |
| 12 | In order to fulfil its declared aim of formulating the rules of human individuals ' behaviour and experience scientifically , psychology needs principally to study individual behaviour , unaffected by social interactions . |
| 13 | Because one can not have recourse to one simple authoritative document to discover the provisions of the Constitution , one has instead to research four separate sources : statute law , common law , conventions , and works of authority . |
| 14 | This dual emphasis on the reader and on analysis of texts in units larger than a sentence seems to offer the beginnings at least of a new approach to text research , one which moves beyond a correlational approach to readability and starts instead to identify causal relationships between aspects of texts and difficulties in comprehension . |
| 15 | With the points gained from round 1 , Oates now holds second in class and looks forward to round 3 at Silverstone on April 4th and 5th , supporting British Touring Cars . |
| 16 | REGALIAN has yet to sell one of the 20 luxury flats in the block that infuriated close neighbour Prince Charles a couple of years back — even after slashing the combined price from £90m to £65m . |
| 17 | Marling has yet to encounter such conditions and trainer Geoff Wragg warned : ‘ I will have to play it by ear but as long as it is only soft we should be all right . |
| 18 | On the one hand , the empirical work has yet to incorporate many of the concerns that arise in the theoretical literature , as illustrated by the treatment of incidence ; on the other hand , many of the theoretical models are far removed from being empirically implementable , and leave out of account important factors ( such as the implications for production of the heterogeneity of labour ) . |
| 19 | Numbers at each site vary annually and the total recorded population has yet to exceed 20–25 pairs . |
| 20 | However , it has yet to take concrete steps to stop atrocities , or bring their perpetrators to justice . |
| 21 | Finlay Calder , who has yet to regain full fitness , is replaced by Graham Marshall , a 6ft 3in specialist open-side flanker who also excelled in Japan . |
| 22 | Gullit 's lucrative contract expires next month and he has yet to agree another one . |
| 23 | Wright looked acclimatised to the First Division , more so than his partner Bright , who has yet to score this season . |
| 24 | Norton has yet to release any financial figures informing its 13,000 shareholders of the current state of their investments . |
| 25 | The problems reflect a painful transition period for Bolt Beranek as its major market — the military military , on which it depended for almost half its revenue — is slipping away while it has yet to see much return from its substantial investment in Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching or its T/10 Integrated Access Device . |
| 26 | Even Nimbus has yet to see either silicon , and is working purely from specifications . |
| 27 | In his fifteen months at the helm , MacDonald has yet to publish any financial figures for Norton ( despite Companies Act and Stock Exchange requirements for semi-annual numbers ) , with the result that the shares are suspended from the stock market . |
| 28 | At 26 , Lesley has yet to receive many commissions , and would charge around £600 for a portrait . |
| 29 | This organisation has since been in correspondence with Neil Kinnock 's Westminster office , but has yet to receive any clear indication of whether Labour would indeed reduce the age of consent for gay men from 21 to 16 . |
| 30 | The justifiability rule has yet to receive widespread judicial consideration in the context of education , but it might be expected to be applied more strictly . |