Example sentences of "only for the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There follows the observation that the need for responsiveness to rapid technological change and fluctuating economic climate requires management to involve employees in the process of making decisions , if only for the practical reason that there will be great difficulty in carrying through decisions against resistance by trade unions . |
| 2 | Help was duly forthcoming — if only for the practical reason that the dollar was bound to suffer in the event of a sterling crisis . |
| 3 | 1983 was a year of historical significance in the development of the BDA not only for the above events but because , by a happy coincidence , it was the year when Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales agreed to become the BDA 's first Royal Patron . |
| 4 | The surveyor accepts responsibility to the applicant and the society only for the stated purposes that the report will be prepared with the skill , care and diligence reasonably to be expected of a competent chartered surveyor , but accepts no responsibility whatsoever to any person other than the applicant and the society . |
| 5 | The surveyor accepts responsibility to the client and the society only for the stated purposes that the report will be prepared with skill , care and diligence reasonably to be expected of a competent chartered surveyor , but accepts no responsibility whatsoever to any person other than the client and the society . |
| 6 | Such was the prophetic hope , not only for the Suffering Servant or the Messiah of Israel but for the whole people of God . |
| 7 | For example , most people buy free-range eggs not only for the extra taste and nourishment , but also because they approve of the conditions in which the hens are kept . |
| 8 | I certainly do not share the view of Charles Plummer nearly a century ago ( when the fate of Napoleon III was still fresh enough to point an implicit moral ) , that Charles the Bald was " a typical Frenchman in many respects , intellectually clever but caring only for the outward pomp and circumstance of empire without the strength of character to grasp and hold the reality of power " . |
| 9 | Gradually you make your standards ( criteria ) of your child 's approximations to the correct response more and more stringent until , in the end , he is rewarded only for the precise behaviour that is required . |
| 10 | In this respect England 's relations with Brittany were likely to be of great importance , not only for the positive reason that a friendly duke of Brittany would allow the use of his duchy as a stepping-off place into the mainland , but for the negative one that a hostile duke might cause untold harm to English maritime interests , both military and commercial , by failing to stop the activities of Breton pirates and privateers whose ships gave much trouble at sea , as complaints in Parliament and in some of the political literature of the time , notably The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , testify . |
| 11 | It could be argued that such a system is valuable in all high risk operations : it provides reassurance not only for the surgical teams but also for patients who are operated on by a surgeon in whom seroconversion subsequently occurs . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |