Example sentences of "[noun] only for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students on the part-time course will work from home , visiting Middlesbrough only for the final examination . |
| 2 | In Mark Frame , from Paisley in Scotland , the first President of the Scottish Regional Council , a worthy successor was found ; but he assumed responsibility only for the duties of Secretary . |
| 3 | He advocated state support only for the minority who could not be self-helping because they were too old or disabled for work or because there were insufficient jobs available ; and he accepted the need for punitive treatment of the undeserving at the base of society . |
| 4 | With the honourable exception of this last case , the homogeneously broadened laser has so far proved a fertile field for instability and chaos only for the theorist . |
| 5 | But for the most part , later eleventh-century castellans had contrived to convert their homage into little more than a symbol of deference and willingness to perform service ; the implications that their castle and office were enjoyed purely by delegation , that their duty lay in exercising powers and privileges only for the benefit of their lord , were swiftly transmuted into something much less rigid ; exactly what depended on the prince 's powers and proximity . |
| 6 | A Navy sailing master was permitted to take over command only for the duration of the brief period when it was necessary for the Simonova to be manoeuvred to allow technical officers to service the weapons and telemetry mounted on the platforms . |
| 7 | Within Royal Ordnance which I have resumed the responsibility for I do n't know , Mr Chairman , I convened a meeting of the convenors to introduce myself and to familiarize myself with the movement and the industry only for the company to announce thirteen hundred redundancies , as we were meeting . |
| 8 | However , we have been able to solve the equation only for the very simplest system , the hydrogen atom , consisting of one proton and one electron . |
| 9 | In April , the French and the Scots embarked on a polite exchange of congratulatory diplomatic compliments , with the French claiming that they had attacked Boulogne only for the sake of the Scots . |
| 10 | They had eyes only for the journey downwards , now , and battle-fervour , love and pride had long since been sucked from them , leaving them soulless husks : in bronze , or leather , fur-cloaked or bright trousered . |
| 11 | Any re-bindings are in effect only for the duration of the CLI command file . |
| 12 | The original deal was for the same time and same sum , but the difference now is that the new contract covers rugby only for the age bracket between 16 and 18 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She would take home something special and beautiful so that she would not remember the Côte d'Azur only for the bad things . |
| 15 | BBDO , Leo Burnett , Chiat Day and LH-S to present their credentials only for the above and below-the-line campaign . |
| 16 | She took up the handles of the hand-cart and began to push it , and now there was room only for the child to walk by the side of it . |
| 17 | There should be no more nonsense about one or other of them moving out for a matter of days or weeks only for the unsatisfactory relationship to resume just as unsatisfactorily as before . |
| 18 | The turning point came in the 75th minute when McGrath brought down Walsh only for the resulting penalty by Lineker to be saved easily by Spink . |
| 19 | DEC 's announcement that it would concentrate on OSF/1 only for the Alpha range made enough customers angry for DEC to go back to its business plan and think again . |
| 20 | A stocky , bearded Arab , wearing a khaki boiler suit and black head-wrap — yards of cloth wrapped round the head leaving a slit only for the eyes — jumped from the cab . |
| 21 | I 'd have taken in lodgers only for the war , but the solicitor advised me just to close the place up for the time being . |
| 22 | It is worth emphasising again , however , that these traditions are , apparently , of relatively recent origin and that there is early authority only for the fact that Molla Fenari was Mufti ( except , perhaps , in so far as it may be argued from Taskopruzade that he was the first Mufti , as noted at the beginning of the chapter ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | FOUR men are suing Merseyside Police for damages after they waited nearly four years to face charges only for the Crown Prosecution Service to offer no evidence when their cases came to court . |
| 26 | While exhorting the judiciary to use custodial sentences only for the really wicked , who commit serious offences , they have refused to compromise the supposed independence of the judiciary by interfering directly in the judicial process . |
| 27 | An American legal source said : ‘ Fans are going to have to show they are going to the US only for the soccer matches and provide evidence of a steady history of employment , and that they can support themselves while in the States . ’ |
| 28 | The action moved to the Saints ' end where a cross from Kiwomya eluded Dozzell and Whitton but fell kindly for Guentchev only for the Bulgarian to blaze his shot over the top . |
| 29 | Providing an answer only for the surface doubt answers neither doubt in the long run . |
| 30 | Somehow she knew with an inner certainty that even if she had met Adam Burns only for the most fleeting of moments , those dark obsidian eyes would have burned themselves into her memory for ever . |