Example sentences of "one have [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One has just to look at recent results from a number of the Banks to get an idea of the vast profits being made . |
| 2 | As we shall see , to understand British politics fully one has also to go beyond that framework . |
| 3 | One has also to serve it well . |
| 4 | One has also to contend with the contribution of the Criminal Law Revision Committee , about which much could be said not least on the remarkable sortie into the defences of intoxication and mistake in its 14th Report . |
| 5 | One has simply to glance at the few fragments of these Galatica ( 745 Jacoby ) — all quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium — to be persuaded that the author of the Galatica is a younger namesake of the great Eratosthenes — perhaps a descendant who noticed the lacunae in the geography of his predecessor . |
| 6 | Yet from those English lips which utter this face-saving locution , one has yet to hear the words uttered in any sense that is not ‘ limiting ’ . |
| 7 | Because one can not have recourse to one simple authoritative document to discover the provisions of the Constitution , one has instead to research four separate sources : statute law , common law , conventions , and works of authority . |
| 8 | One has rather to describe the features that are implied by the use of the name . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One has only to mouth that thought to recognise its absurdity . |
| 12 | But if Sutherland sounds distant and indifferent to his father — ’ We see each other very rarely ’ he insists — one has only to ask him to list his favourite Donald Sutherland movies to see a proud and admiring son . |
| 13 | One has only to envisage circumstances in which all those upon whose territory strategic arms are stationed are required to come to the negotiating table to consider such a proposition to realise how much more difficult it would be if all , rather than a limited number , were participating . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Coming back , as always , to the Jurassic , one has only to compare the 30 ammonite zones represented in one foot of sediment in Sicily with the 15 000 feet representing a single zone in Oregon , to realise how startlingly different rates of deposition must have been in different places . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One has only to reflect on the enumeration of the varied properties of a state of full employment in the General Theory to realize that something is seriously wrong . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One has only to return from a trip to the Continent , for example , to see what a shabby and second-rate country Britain has become . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One has only to substitute the name of Jesus for ‘ love ’ in that chapter to see that the whole thing is a pen picture of Christ 's way of life . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Er one has only to walk down the road here for example at Strensall but equally , the first point I made would be to contradict perhaps what Mr and Mr have said er because the the difference in employment distribution is a reflection of the pop planning policies that have been followed over the last ten years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | One has only to think of the Romantic period where poets became their own heroes , and their lives were seen as part of their poetic output . |