Example sentences of "we need [adv] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need only hold enough to finance our spending between receipts of income , or pay-days ' . |
| 2 | Of course the field of view is 3-dimensional , so in principle we need only state three of these four coordinates , but there is no point in discarding information and so we may as well keep them all . |
| 3 | The objective defined in 1858 was to enable ‘ persons requiring medical aid … to distinguish qualified from unqualified practitioners ’ and we need only read some early issues of the Lancet to learn that the medical register was regarded at the time as a list of doctors who set themselves higher standards than the multitude of quacks who then preyed on the sick . |
| 4 | We need only approach ideal viewing conditions . |
| 5 | We need hardly answer this — it depends upon circumstances . |