Example sentences of "only for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Prices continued to be fixed centrally only for postal services , electricity and gas supplies , water rates and water transport , and radio and television licences .
2 It is used not only for inner lines but often also to strengthen contours .
3 Gibbons et al. ( 1978a ) demonstrated that treatment by social workers using a standardized task-centred approach ( Reid and Epstein 1972 ) was more effective in terms of improving patients ' social problems than traditional care recommended by psychiatrists , although only for female patients ( Gibbons 1979 ) .
4 It is important for the Opposition to bear it in mind that their opposition to the roads programme is a recipe not only for increased congestion but for increased fatalities and casualties on our roads .
5 Many latifundia were , no doubt , ‘ abusive ’ ; but many were on poor land suited only for extensive and occasional cereal production and ranching .
6 In America the organisational style is geared to mobilize people only for specific projects .
7 Libraries are not used for general scanning-type purposes but only for specific tasks .
8 The invention of back stairs and corridors rendered the family rooms increasingly private , since they now needed to be entered only for specific purposes , and no longer functioned as thoroughfares .
9 Today many decisions are taken in private party meetings , only very occasionally with officers in attendance and then normally only for specific items .
10 Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day .
11 Most diamonds are brown or yellow with little visual appeal and are fit only for industrial use .
12 ERA thus offers the possibility of real-time quality control not only for industrial pollutants but also for pathogens such as E.coli or parasites like cryptosporidium in drinking water .
13 For instance the names of residents were used not only for personal records , but also for certain financial accounts , and for day-to-day tasks such as preparing menus and issuing medicines ; the statistics about the dependency levels of residents were periodically collated from individual records and passed to the headquarters , and so on .
14 Only for future presidents or prime ministers .
15 This information is essential not only for good careers education but also to assist schools in providing an accurate picture of the local economic and business situation for their students .
16 The transition from traditional management techniques to those based on personal computers revealed the need not only for good early planning but also for high-level commitment in directing what was to be implemented and for what were described as decision support systems .
17 This document is significant not only for New Testament studies .
18 What was most important , though , was that these socially more distinguished patrons were indeed creating a fashion ; they were sanctioning movie-going not only for other less bold middle-class families but also for all that vast number of people caught in the twilight zone between middle-class comfort and the lumpenproletariat .
19 The more autonomous a field is , the greater the extent to which production in that field is only for other producers and not for consumers in the social field ( or field of power ) .
20 He would try to arrange a site meeting with the police to see what could be done to improve safety not only for other motorists but for pedestrians .
21 Commissions and Collaborations makes a good case for the BBC 's role as a patron of the arts — not only for respectable institutions like the Proms , but works that may be difficult , controversial , fey , or just not very successful .
22 However the increasingly open and competitive markets of the EC , USA and Japan present a special challenge , not only for locally-based exporting companies but also for those whose sales are restricted to the UK market .
23 However in Britain it seems extremely unlikely that the courts will adopt a similar approach especially given the legislature 's prior decision in the CSA 1985 to opt only for criminal measures .
24 In the last few years , the AAA has made strenuous efforts to see that the age for distance rules are observed , not only for official races but also for fun runs , which are not subject to their control .
25 Electric lighting too , though disliked by Haussmann because of its coldness and considered by him as suitable only for illuminating building works at night , was nevertheless used for decorative purposes .
26 The reorganization took account of the fact that many republican television and radio committees had become independent of the Gosteleradio structure , and the new Corporation would be an umbrella administration only for Soviet Central Television , Leningrad Television , All-Union Radio and Moscow Radio World Service .
27 For Mrs Thatcher , at loggerheads with many of her own party over European issues , this summit was crucial , as it set the tone for debates leading up to 1992 — not only for European unification but for the next British election in which Europe will be a deciding factor .
28 Hospitality : More beds are needed especially to accommodate the German team on Thursday , Friday and Saturday nights , and a few for Friday night only for long distance Medau performers — please ask in your classes ( ten mile radius from Croydon or along the route from Dover preferred ) and send offers to .
29 Once more , however , they provided only for small numbers and their success even in establishing this few in permanent work or independence appears to have been small .
30 Those who , in face of those facts still insist that the industrial co-operative is suitable only for small businesses , contribute to the inertia with which its promotion must contend .
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