Example sentences of "have only [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One has only to substitute the name of Jesus for ‘ love ’ in that chapter to see that the whole thing is a pen picture of Christ 's way of life . |
| 2 | ‘ If Kenny Dalglish wants Roy Keane he has only to dial the club , ’ he added . |
| 3 | Specifically , it is to query the new received wisdom , that the alternative party to the Conservatives in British politics has only to take the consumerist road , and present itself as the protector of the individual against Big Business and Big Government . |
| 4 | Much more will be said of the houses of the poor in chapter 3 , but the basic contrast can be readily tested — one has only to compare the range of interiors in the novels of Richardson or Jane Austen with the range in almost any one of Dickens 's novels . |
| 5 | Iago 's manipulation of the verbal sign was never more brilliant , for he has only to offer the Signifier , ‘ Lie ’ — which could mean ‘ tell an untruth ’ — for Othello to snatch the Signified , ‘ lie with ’ , which has been planted in his consciousness so remorselessly . |
| 6 | One has only to read the correspondence of F.J. Osborn with Lewis Mumford over these years ( Hughes , 1971 ) to appreciate the single-minded zeal that could be generated for the attainment of the new Jerusalem . |
| 7 | One has only to read the letter of Robert Scott Macfie , a middle-aged company chairman with degrees from Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities , who stayed in the ranks as a senior NCO , when he wrote of an action on the Somme in 1916 : ‘ The want of preparation , the vague orders , the ignorance of the objective and geography , the absurd haste and in general , the horrid bungling were scandalous . ’ |
| 8 | The options are provided in the menu : the user has only to select the option required by pressing the appropriate key ( following the question mark ) . |
| 9 | And if there 's anything I can do — or Mr Mentiply — anything at all , you 've only to say the word . ’ |
| 10 | She had only to watch the porter 's moves next day to learn the times when he visited his charge , and espy where the two keys of the penal cells hung side by side in the gatehouse . |
| 11 | Bissett had only to see the wire of the Citadel 's perimeter , to see the smoke from the Citadel 's chimneys , to feel a loathing for the place . |
| 12 | She had only to make the decision . |
| 13 | She had only to follow the road now . |
| 14 | He had only to recall the inevitability of their first coming together , her passionate , uncomplicated , animal gusto in their lovemaking to know that the thought was paranoid . |
| 15 | The model we used above was very simple in that the manager , in effect , had only to toss the coin to determine the outcome . |
| 16 | To check the statements ‘ comparison with the etching turn out to be optimistic ’ ( Schatborn ) and ‘ there is not a line that resembles Rembrandt 's other drawings of the period ’ ( Royalton-Kisch ) , readers have only to compare the treatment of the back in the drawing with the etching to see that the explanation offered by the experts that they are the product of two separate artists working independently in , ‘ a joint session of study from the model ’ is far fetched . |
| 17 | About 1300 journalists registered at this years ' show , and you have only to read the number of column entries and to hear the radio and to see the television to know that the content of this year 's Royal Show stands second to none in the technical content of agricultural exhibitions across the world . |
| 18 | We have only to administer the law as we find it , and no court could pronounce a judgment as to the validity of an act of Parliament . |