Example sentences of "only for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sort of reading is only for the dedicated follower of the history of taste , though any reader particularly interested in a picture may find within a single catalogue entry an acutely discriminating judgement or interesting facts ; for example , Tietze 's entry also points out that Manet so much admired the Tintoretto self-portrait that he made a copy of it . |
| 2 | When education in the true sense existed only for the inheriting classes , acceptable spoken English was something one was raised with at home . |
| 3 | It raised the more general and important question whether the determination of a statutory tribunal with a limited jurisdiction could give rise to issue estoppel at all , or only to cause of action estoppel ; in other words , whether it could give rise to an estoppel for all purposes or only for the limited purpose for which the jurisdiction to make the determination was conferred . |
| 4 | Only a short while later these were accused ( by Schiller amongst others ) of being not worthy of him - ‘ Fit only for the nursery , to use in connection with Noah 's Ark ’ — but the truth is they are irresistible . |
| 5 | Equity markets recoiled from these gloomy indicators by falling sharply at the beginning of the week , pausing only for the Chancellor 's speech at the Tory Party conference , but still failing to recover lost ground by the close . |
| 6 | Because of this , foreign currency mortgages , which are being sold very heavily at the moment by financial intermediaries ( linked to banks and other financial institutions which are providing the funds ) , are only for the financially sophisticated . |
| 7 | An employee who qualifies only for the lower rate of SMP is entitled to it throughout the Maternity Pay Period of up to 18 weeks . |
| 8 | Only for the whole lot of you we 'd not be near that far on , ’ Moran was able to praise . |
| 9 | Where vaned cowls are to be replaced , it is not advisable for them to be fixed in place , not only for the sake of authenticity , but also to simplify maintenance . |
| 10 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 11 | It was well worth going to if only for the scene of the spring cleaning of the dwarfs ’ house . |
| 12 | He noted that the Canberra meeting ‘ is the start of something which could grow into a very significant development not only for the region but for the global economy . ’ |
| 13 | We 'd compare this inside view of machismo with the deconstruction of masculinity in Scorsese 's films : in Taxi Driver , for example , we 're drawn into vicarious participation in a spectacular massacre , only for the camera to draw back and reveal the real carnage , suffering and shock that such an exercise of male power entails . |
| 14 | Students on the part-time course will work from home , visiting Middlesbrough only for the final examination . |
| 15 | President Mitterrand of France ( and he 's not alone in this ) has been anxious that too swift a move to reunify the two Germanys could destabilise Gorbachev , something that could spell disaster not only for the West but for the balance of world power . |
| 16 | Beaten into second place by his team-mate Rene Arnoux in the 1982 French Grand Prix , he pulled into a service station on his way home only for the attendant to mistake him for his rival . |
| 17 | For purposes of litigation , it is true , an infant can and must be represented by an adult , who will be called ‘ the next friend ’ of an infant plaintiff , the ‘ guardian ad litem ’ of an infant defendant ; but such a next friend or guardian represents the infant only for the purposes of the particular lawsuit , and is not necessarily , though he is commonly , the infant 's parent or general guardian . |
| 18 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
| 19 | On Saturday morning the gates were closed early with thousands locked out , only for the whole day to be lost to the weather ; had just an hour or two 's play been possible there would almost certainly have been a result . |
| 20 | On England 's next tour in 1985–6 , Guyana was carefully omitted from the itinerary , and it would be nine years before they returned — only for the Test to be washed out completely . |
| 21 | Gooch , Gower and Lamb made forties , only for the ball to start shooting and wickets to fall . |
| 22 | For all that , the way in which he was publicly rebuked by Peter May , the chairman of Selectors , after returning home , and appointed only for the first Test against India , annoyed many people by its insensitivity and seemed to be about as productive as the shooting of Admiral Byng on his quarterdeck . |
| 23 | He was rewarded with a victory over Sri Lanka , and then chosen to lead the team to India , only for the tour to be cancelled because of the South African connections of himself and several members of the party . |
| 24 | After Greenidge and Haynes had put on 96 for the first wicket , Fraser had Greenidge lbw ; immediately after the interval Haynes hit Malcolm 's second ball for four , only for the next ball to leap up at him and give Lamb an easy catch . |
| 25 | It was captain Richards who put the brakes on with some neat off-spin , only for the last ten overs to realize another 83 . |
| 26 | After the drama of the tied first Test , Australia won the second by seven wickets and West Indies the third by 222 runs ; as the fourth neared its close , West Indies appeared to have the game in their hands , only for the last Australian pair to survive for an hour and forty minutes and earn a draw ; and the final Test was won by Australia with just two wickets left . |
| 27 | Female animals were used only for the less significant peace-offerings when animals of either sex could be sacrificed ( Lev . |
| 28 | By last year , in a letter to CPRE , junior environment minister David Trippier said : ‘ Charges have been introduced only for the detailed conservation and environmental services which ADAS now provides ; for example , full guidance on design , planning , management and budgetary aspects of conservation projects together , if necessary , with supervision of the work concerned . ’ |
| 29 | On Good Friday 1958 the first march set out for Aldermaston , the atomic research establishment in Berkshire , under the CND symbol , a black circle forked with a white ‘ drooping cross ’ , the semaphore symbols for N and D , which became the membership badge not only for the campaign but for a certain kind of non-conformity among young people . |
| 30 | ‘ What a pity you are here only for the day — I could pick your brains very profitably . ’ |