Example sentences of "have only to " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 've only to … ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was an arrogant man who thought he had only to crook his finger and she would come running . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It had only to be channelled . |
| 12 | He had only to be patient . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | The Lord will be with you : you have only to be still ’ ’ ( Exodus 14:13 ) |
| 20 | I 'm not brilliant but I have only to be shown once . |