Example sentences of "need only " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a safety feature , the rocker need only be lightly touched on the back section to cut the motor . |
| 2 | A designer need only draw on a computer screen the letter forms that he likes and the machine will convert them automatically into Bézier curves . |
| 3 | He took this to be a truth ‘ so near and obvious to the mind , that a man need only open his eyes to see ’ it . |
| 4 | One is that no actual endangerment is required : the explosion need only have been inherently likely to endanger life , and the offence is committed whether or not anyone 's life was put in danger . |
| 5 | He announced his credo unashamedly in his first editorial : ‘ We believe we are filling a publishing need only slightly less important than the one just taken care of by the Kinsey Report . ’ |
| 6 | Anyone who wished to hoax an archaeologist need only buy up Quirke 's stock and then sink it in a bog to be rediscovered . |
| 7 | Anyone worrying — as dealers and Christie 's once did — that these thousands of 300-year-old pots will flood the market need only look at Harrods , where Nanking Cargo plates have been selling regularly and at increasing prices since the auction ( £195 for a good teabowl , £7,000 for an ‘ encrusted ’ tureen ) and where , after the Vung Tau auction , the new pieces will also be for sale from , they expect , £50 to £10,000 . |
| 8 | The prosecution need only prove that the physical action took place , and after that the defendant is expected to put forward a good reason or excuse for his action to escape conviction . |
| 9 | For example , many a small child knows that to alleviate the pain and irritation of a nettle sting he need only reach for the nearest broad-leaved docken , ( Rumex obtusifolius ) and rub it on the offending part for instant relief . |
| 10 | Timbers affected by wet rot need only to be dried out , or cut out and replaced with sound timbers , and so long as the source of wetting is removed and air allowed to circulate , the rot will not recur . |
| 11 | This is n't the case at all , and to see why , one need only to look at the composition of the rocks involved . |
| 12 | Sickness benefits received prior to the hearing need only be brought into account where your salary would have been reduced on account of ill health . |
| 13 | Anchors for the punt need only be heavy weights . |
| 14 | The point is that as the laws do not focus on the results of corporate crime , the corporate criminal need only worry about relatively lenient punishment for breaking a particular regulation , and not be concerned with the wider consequences of that action . |
| 15 | Some of the office rooms were comfortable enough in their way — far more so , indeed , than those in the new building — still , they were most inconveniently arranged , in proof of which it need only be mentioned that the Secretary of State in going from his own room to the Cabinet Room had to pass through two rooms occupied by other persons . |
| 16 | An end-user need only deal with information retrieval within a limited area . |
| 17 | A team at Pittsburgh realised that the fact that a move need only be proven bad once could be the key to enormous time savings . |
| 18 | The cream need only be lightly massaged with the finger tips either once or twice a day and the manufacturers stress that you do not have to knead or use a special applicator . |
| 19 | The equipment need only be a sponge filter , air pump and heaterstat . |
| 20 | It is easy for a novelist to make a girl beautiful : he need only say ‘ let her be beautiful ‘ . |
| 21 | While no one is suggesting that any health risks attach to Quorn , it need only take one popular comedian cracking jokes at Quorn 's expense to generate major marketing problems . |
| 22 | The company 's argument was that under s 45(3) an employer need only offer alternative employment ‘ where there is a suitably available vacancy ’ . |
| 23 | However , the 1987 budget proposals are for firms with an annual turnover under £250,000 to be able to pay VAT on a cash basis viz. VAT need only be paid when the invoice bearing VAT has actually been paid . |
| 24 | Therefore , a driver need only accord precedence to pedestrians on the crossing on his side of the road . |
| 25 | If ‘ made ’ or ‘ adapted ’ is used the prosecution need only prove that the accused had it with him . |
| 26 | And if Rangers striker Mark Hateley needs a preview of what he 's up against at Ibrox tonight , he need only watch a video replay of that moment of madness . |
| 27 | This should give sufficient cut down of search so that word shape need only be checked on a relatively small number of words . |
| 28 | A master printer need only say to the artist , ‘ We need more yellow ’ , to qualify for ownership rights to any reproduction of the image that has emerged under his hand . |
| 29 | For apart from Lenin 's conviction that there is always a dominant instance at a time of social stability , and a dominant contradiction at a time of social change , Althusser gives us no reason to believe that there need only be one aspect of society which bears this relation to the mode of production . |
| 30 | Given the dichotomous speech model that Richard uses , one need only invert the sense to discover the true meaning . |