Example sentences of "have only [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One has only to reflect on the enumeration of the varied properties of a state of full employment in the General Theory to realize that something is seriously wrong . |
| 2 | Hence the parser has only to decide on the syntactic structure that can be made from combining these different parts of speech . |
| 3 | The British reader has only to listen to the sounds that protest makes in his own streets , to the cruel , brutal voices that bellow over loudhailers about injustice and the disadvantaged . |
| 4 | One has only to listen to the forthrightness of ‘ Surely , He hath borne our griefs ’ or the intricate virtuosic weaving of parts in ‘ And he shall purify ’ or ‘ All we like sheep ’ , to realise that this is a choir or rare quality and precision which should be dragged straight back into the recording studio to commit to posterity its undoubtedly sublime view of Handel 's great choral masterpieces , Solomon and Israel in Egypt , or the earlier but no less demanding Dixit Dominus . |
| 5 | One has only to stand on the bridge over the Trannon at Trefeglwys and look upstream to see the stable narrow river coursing elegantly between its magnificent borders of ash and sycamore , and compare this with the immediate downstream reach , which wanders amidst a waste of gravel . |
| 6 | One has only to look across the Atlantic to Canada , where similar government policies shattered a once-successful Canadian pharmaceuticals industry . |
| 7 | One has only to look at the new jobs created and investment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One has only to look at the regularity with which courses on modelling now appear on the MRS lists . |
| 12 | One has only to look at the economic forecasts . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Er one has only to walk down the road here for example at Strensall but equally , the first point I made would be to contradict perhaps what Mr and Mr have said er because the the difference in employment distribution is a reflection of the pop planning policies that have been followed over the last ten years . |
| 15 | One has only to think of the range of services to which an old person may or may not be entitled to see that , even if power is in general exercised responsibly , old people and their informal carers are particularly vulnerable to professional neglect , abuse of power or , more often and more excusably , to inexpert or biased assessment . |
| 16 | One has only to think of the way in which the Shah of Persia reinforced his position by claiming direct descent from the Achaemenids of the third century BC , to give depth to a genealogy that in fact started with his father — a Cossack officer — assuming the throne in 1920 when the previous dynasty collapsed ( see Avery , 1965 ) ; or the use in Britain of the ‘ historical ’ roots of the Royal Family to support such current political structures as the House of Lords . |
| 17 | One has only to think of the British motorcycle industry and its once-prime position to see the folly of believing you can sustain a world leading position without constant innovation . |
| 18 | One has only to think of the remarkable story of growing , harvesting , and weaving cotton with its social and industrial history to realize the enormous learning potential of such a project . |
| 19 | One has only to think of the Romantic period where poets became their own heroes , and their lives were seen as part of their poetic output . |
| 20 | One has only to think of the variety of positions that can be taken with respect to qualitative and quantitative research . |
| 21 | One has only to think of the time it took and what was necessary to develop the now largely taken-for-granted temperature scales ; an effort involving not only technological developments , but also developments in physics , thermodynamics , mathematics , and more . |
| 22 | One has only to think of the simple arpeggios and ostinatos based on triads in Les Illuminations ( 1939 ) , or the seemingly effortless , tuneful setting of well-XXXX known poetry in the Serenade ( 1943 ) . |
| 23 | Although Southall itself may be deemed ’ safe ’ from racial attacks , one has only to step outside the 4 sq miles to realise the extent to which women 's lives are determined by the fear of violence . |
| 24 | Mr Baker 's party takes a different view ; they 've only to explain to the public how we 're going to succeed if we do n't invest in our own future , in our education and training and in good social services for our people , because I do n't see how it can be done . |
| 25 | He had only to fumble in the pocket of his sports jacket , preparatory to taking out his pipe , and she was at his elbow striking on a musical lighter which tinkled out the tune of ‘ Come Back to Sorrento ’ . |
| 26 | In effect , he need not have bothered ; he had only to ask in the name of Spain and Rodrigo would have come . |
| 27 | Later when he wanted to release him he had only to go through the same motion but this time having his hand covered with a substance that would neutralize the smell . |
| 28 | Scouts had only to go to the North-east , the Birmingham area or any of the thickly populated districts to discover several players almost up to the top League standard . |
| 29 | Nearly every farmer had a barrel of the stuff in his cow house in those days and I had only to go into the corner and turn the tap . |
| 30 | He was not often given words to speak , and had only to sit in the shade of his massive wings and stare into the middle distance and drift in his imagination to the four corners of the sky . |