Example sentences of "have only [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A heavy bait , therefore , has to be tackled from a shorter range than does a light one ; a comparatively clean bait — a worm for instance , lying on sand or gravel — has only to be ‘ vacuumed ’ a few times , if at all , before the bream swallows it .
2 In my judgment , the question has only to be put for the answer to be apparent .
3 That assessment has only to be read to indicart to indicate what it fortended for future success in her chosen career .
4 Whatever lingering nostalgia he might have felt , Delves chose to look ahead , to concentrate on the new business opportunities that Mr Akayev is keen to encourage in his ‘ little Switzerland ’ , most of which has only in recent months been opened up to foreigners .
5 The lack of communication to others has only in part been due to our own ineptness at salesmanship ; it more likely lies in a fairly deeply embedded resistance to drama being anything other than a community art — not just a performing art , a community art .
6 [ Honeymoon , by the way , just in case you ca n't cut the etymological mustard , has only in recent times come to denote a nuptial holiday involving the purchase of duty-free goods and the taking of too many colour prints of exactly the same scene .
7 The need may have only for servants from ‘ foreign ’ lines , or dependants .
8 I want to take you in my arms and kiss you and — ’ He looked to the side to where two people were approaching ; then dropping her hands , he said on a laugh , ‘ I 've only to be seen doing that in public , even holding your hands , and the place would be set on fire .
9 I 've only to … ’
10 The television had not defeated her because nothing had ever gone wrong with it , and it had only to be switched on and off or , scarcely more complicated , over .
11 The men following up therefore had only to pinion the defender and use their momentum to force him backwards to be given yet another kick instead of a scrum .
12 The Shetlanders were the only children I have ever known who had only to be asked once to perform in public , without even token resistance they took to their fiddles and played .
13 He was an arrogant man who thought he had only to crook his finger and she would come running .
14 Jurors had only to be ‘ of sufficient intelligence and respectability ’ , but in 1 868 a financial test was instituted in order to exclude low-status white-collar workers .
15 It had only to be channelled .
16 He had only to be patient .
17 Having taken his strongholds , his wife , and his wealth , such an army had only to march thirty miles south to trap him here , with two thousand enemy mercenaries at his back and Siward before him , triumphant .
18 Those contrary approaches , contrary calculations and contrary totals , the one nearly twice the other , had only to be set up to illustrate the difficulty of the problems in this case .
19 The original conception of the public corporation was that it had only to be given its ‘ marching orders ’ by the political authority and could then be left to pursue the ‘ national interest ’ as management saw fit ( SCNI 1968 : 34 ) .
20 Moreover , the fact that experience of objects is to be had only under the form of space and time ensures the applicability of mathematics to the whole or the phenomenal ( and hence physical ) world .
21 They had only about one hundred and fifty yards to gather speed and could not achieve a full gallop in the time .
22 It seems pretty damning that the nine syndicates with the greatest expected losses in 1989 had only between four and nine per cent of working Names while the ten most profitable 1988 syndicates ( the last for which we have figures ) had an average of 18 per cent of working Names , one having 26 per cent , another 36 per cent and one 48 per cent .
23 Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment .
24 As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married .
25 For these features have only to be noticed for it to be seen that very considerable scope exists for denying or undermining the exercise of the right .
26 Its interest , as will already be clear , is that it offers a prospect of closing the gap between fact and value , bypassing the issue of whether or how one can draw prescriptive conclusions from descriptive premisses alone : it affirms the apparently naive claim that to know how to act I have only to be sufficiently aware of myself and my surroundings .
27 As God drives back the waters so that they can cross in safety , and as he sends the wall of water rushing down upon Pharaoh 's forces , Israel learns the truth of Moses ' words : " The Lord will fight for you , and you have only to be still " ( 14:14 ) .
28 The Lord will be with you : you have only to be still ’ ’ ( Exodus 14:13 )
29 I 'm not brilliant but I have only to be shown once .
30 Perhaps cuckoos have only in recent centuries started parasitizing their present hosts , and will in a few centuries be forced to give them up and victimize other species .
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