Example sentences of "[adv] only for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quick , sharp beverage that hits you in the throat and then in the guts ; that changes , perhaps only for a time , your way of seeing the world ? |
| 2 | Only when this phase has been completed , and perhaps only for a relatively brief period at the height of a crisis , can a second phase of overt conflict between proletarians and capitalists become manifest ( Przeworski , 1977 ) . |
| 3 | Take away the self-interest , and the residual appeal is enough only for the wholly unselfish . |
| 4 | If a group wittingly shares an attitude over a relevant issue but does so only for a limited period of time before falling into disarray , it would be difficult to refer to the group as an elite in any meaningful sense since the outcomes would be insignificant . |
| 5 | It is used elsewhere only for the watertight " basket " in which the baby Moses floated on the Nile — an interesting parallel . |
| 6 | ‘ I had gathered the impression that the Prince had intended to be away only for a few days , ’ said Mahmoud . |
| 7 | Awards can usually be set aside only for an error of law on the face of the award or for misconduct on the arbitrator 's part ( Meyer v Leanse [ 1958 ] 2 QB 371 ; [ 1958 ] 3 All ER 213 ; and Leung v Garbett [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 436 ) . |
| 8 | He returned home only for a week or so each month and spent most of his time in his bathroom , which contained a colour television , telephones and a fully stocked cocktail bar . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Beginners are often surprised at the length of time it takes a learner to learn something : they tend to think that they need to say something once only for the whole class to have it ready for use a few seconds later . |
| 11 | We then test them thoroughly — but often only for a short period as we wish to get the latest fishkeeping news — including the latest products — straight to our readers . |
| 12 | He had no need of this mewed , motionless falcon , waiting now only for the moment and the means to shake off her jesses . |
| 13 | Well only for the tutor to come in with his er overhead projector or whatever he 's got . |
| 14 | ‘ What a pity you are here only for the day — I could pick your brains very profitably . ’ |
| 15 | Health of body , health of mind and beauty are divided into separate chapters here only for the sake of giving information in a readily accessible way . |
| 16 | Mostly in New York City , up here only for the summer . |
| 17 | There will be space here only for the briefest discussion of external forces which have shaped life in Indian prisons , but it is difficult to overestimate their importance . |
| 18 | It 's so difficult to add up the the hours , but I mean it 's a number of days of course it 's not working solidly you know , maybe only for an up an hour or an hour . |
| 19 | The United Kingdom was an original party to the Convention but did not accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the Commission and Court until 1965 and then only for a three-year term which , however , has so far been regularly renewed although not without some hesitancy prompted by the embarrassment and ignominy of being condemned by the Court on a number of occasions . |
| 20 | Don ‘ t There 's no reason for launches higher than 200 metres ( 650ft ) and then only for a parafoil type which needs the initial fall to take in air and inflate . |
| 21 | At a time when only the Northumbrians , and then only for a time in the reign of Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , minted coins of pure silver , southern England experienced a decline in the quality of its sceattas . |
| 22 | The wind group , as we have said , less frequently stands alone , and then only for a few bars at a time . |
| 23 | Looking south , Huy could just make out the shape of the wall surrounding the palace compound , and remembered that quiet and contentment existed in reality for very few , and then only for a fraction of the time one spends under this sun . |
| 24 | The Mail in 1971–3 did not give the radio schedules , while the Times usually printed the wrong day 's schedules and then only for the General Service ( English ) , omitting altogether the Home Service ( Zambian languages ) to which the majority of its readership listened most of the time . |
| 25 | It says that about 98,000 young people go missing annually , sometimes only for a short period . |
| 26 | People only see the good-for-nothing sons who hang around bars getting into fights and pushing drugs ; they do n't see the real shepherd , the man who spends almost all of his life alone , spends his days making the cheeses they take for granted and his nights sleeping sometimes only for a couple of hours because it 's lambing time . ’ |
| 27 | The effect of the provisions is to deem the income to be that of the settlor , usually for all the purposes of income tax but sometimes only for the purposes of the higher rate of tax . |