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 | Broadleaves account for 36 per cent of British woodland , although only for 18 per cent in Scotland , with oak , beech , ash , sycamore and birch the main species . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Only for such beings is ignorance not bliss . |
| 19 | If it is accepted , as I believe it should be accepted , that certiorari goes not only for such an excess or abuse of power but also for a breach of the rules of natural justice there is even less reason in principle for excluding other established grounds . |
| 20 | They told me not to bother doing the premises up since it was only for such a short time . |
| 21 | We should take it as settled that drivers are liable only for such damage as has been explicitly stipulated in clear statutes , so that drivers and potential victims can insure and otherwise plan their affairs accordingly . |
| 22 | This document is significant not only for New Testament studies . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Mrs O'Brien here at her home in Slough , was told by her husband that the loan back in nineteen eighty seven was only for sixty thousand pounds , the bank did n't correct this or give her independent advice . |
| 30 | 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 . |