Example sentences of "[indef pn] have only " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , everything has only served to strengthen it , ’ Travis countered heavily . |
| 2 | One has only to imagine what would happen if the books on the shelf behind the sitter 's head were upright , like the others , to realize on what delicate adjustments the solidity of this amazing structure depends … |
| 3 | One has only to read recent editions of Climber and Hill Walker to see evidence of atrocious behaviour by climbers and walkers : abuse , noise , breaking down fences , fouling areas with litter and excrement and climbing in areas when specifically requested to desist for good safety reasons — at Cheddar and Upper Pentrwyn . |
| 4 | Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say , or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it . |
| 5 | The inbuilt bias towards the big clubs has undoubtedly fuelled inflation in the transfer market ; one has only to look at Manchester United , who raked in nearly £1m from television last season . |
| 6 | One has only to look at the new jobs created and investment . |
| 7 | To measure the paralysing effect of such a prospect on military planners , one has only to visualise the British and American tank divisions manoeuvring along the inner German border , while East Germans whose invasion they are supposedly repelling stream past westwards in their overloaded Ladas and Brabants . |
| 8 | One has only to read the Scots and Welsh press and the immigrant press in England , such as the Irish Post , to see how its electoral campaign is based on race and bribes to every ethnic group at the expense of the English . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One has only to remember the painful experience of Patrick Gordon Walker , appointed Foreign Secretary by Harold Wilson after the 1964 election despite losing his seat of Smethwick . |
| 11 | One has only to call to mind the eternal life of the moving pictures of the destruction of the Tacoma Bridge and Pruitt Igoe to see how influential such a fate could be . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One has only to glance at a human skeleton to see the numerous segments of the vertebral column . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One has only to look across the Atlantic to Canada , where similar government policies shattered a once-successful Canadian pharmaceuticals industry . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is worth noting , as an aside , that though this may seem obvious , one has only to observe parents with children , or to catch oneself as a parent saying ‘ Do n't be so childish ! ’ to one 's three-year-old , to realize that the reminder remains necessary . |
| 18 | If it is argued that a man has a moral duty to obey the law and that to break the law of the land is a violation of one 's duty to one 's country , then one has only to point to instances of government policy where it would clearly be immoral to obey the law of the land . |
| 19 | The powerful are forced to strain towards an absolute always beyond reach without which they are insecure ; but for the security of an absolute subjection , abjection , it seems that one has only to let go . |
| 20 | Yet one has only to think ( for example ) about giving up a car , to see how significant the effects on an old person may be , in terms of contact with their relatives and services offered . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One has only to read , to look , to listen , to remember . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | One has only to compare Michael Wright 's ‘ Sir Robert Vyner and Family ’ ( 1673 ) with David Allan 's ‘ Family of Sir J. Hunter Blair , Bt , or Wheatley 's entrancing ‘ Browne Family ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | One has only to read these two subsections to appreciate that in appeals in respect of contempt , the court has a complete discretion fettered only by the need to do justice . |
| 30 | 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 . |