Example sentences of "only have [to-vb] the [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The user does not only have to overcome the physical aspect of dependency , manifest in withdrawal symptoms , but also psychological dependence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She only had to have the usual amount of arms and legs and to be able to see where she was going . |
| 10 | I only have to wear the damned thing ! ’ |
| 11 | Consequently , we only have to change the objective function of P1 * to ( omitting constant terms ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ After all , I only have to make the right moves at the right time . ’ |