Example sentences of "[adv] have [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The prosecutor merely has to prove the technical offence of walking on grass . |
2 | Labour now not only has to embrace the new agenda of electoral reform , political decentralisation and power-sharing , and a new Britain in Europe . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Because it is an interlocutory judgement it is usually heard before a master of the High Court , and a defendant only has to show a good arguable case for the plaintiff 's application to fail . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 ) . |
9 | The user does not only have to overcome the physical aspect of dependency , manifest in withdrawal symptoms , but also psychological dependence . |
10 | Merseyside fire brigade spokesman Ken London said : ‘ It is bad enough having to tackle a serious fire without having stones thrown at you as well . ’ |
11 | It was bad enough having to do every single bit of the work , rushing like a mad thing because the person who was meant to help you could n't stop talking . |
12 | But you do n't necessarily have to say the whole number . |
13 | However , the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , written a mere four years after the birth of that Fellowship , says " to be gravely affected , one does not necessarily have to drink a long time , nor take the quantities some of us have . " |
14 | Well you do n't necessarily have to bring the collective unconscious , do you ? |
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 | Then she had to imagine switching on the light in that cupboard under the stairs and taking a couple of steps forward so that she was just inside — but with the door open to the hall and with the knowledge that she only had to take a single large step back to be out there again . |
17 | She only had to have the usual amount of arms and legs and to be able to see where she was going . |
18 | They only had to drop a wizened bean over their shoulders for a plant to spurt from the ground and rain pods at them . |
19 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
20 | You only have to take a little bit off ai n't enough to go under your nose . |
21 | The truth is ladies you only have to touch a bald man and you light up like Blackpool Tower . |
22 | But , you only have to earn a little bit and you lose your benefit . |
23 | I only have to wear the damned thing ! ’ |
24 | Consequently , we only have to change the objective function of P1 * to ( omitting constant terms ) . |
25 | To these people , we not only have to offer an attractive package but to be more visible , especially during these troubled times . |
26 | That 's all you have , that 's only have to have a little bit . |
27 | 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 ? |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | ‘ After all , I only have to make the right moves at the right time . ’ |