Example sentences of "[noun] only for [art] [adj] " 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 | Because we knew that the headmaster of the Scuola Medie Inferiori , where I was now in my last year , was not in a position to punish us if we did not appear for lessons on demonstration days , many of us took part only for a short time and then went home . |
| 3 | All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape . |
| 4 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 5 | She would take home something special and beautiful so that she would not remember the Côte d'Azur only for the bad things . |
| 6 | BBDO , Leo Burnett , Chiat Day and LH-S to present their credentials only for the above and below-the-line campaign . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But it is an agreement which is " restrictive of trade " in this sense , that it requires a man to give his services and wares to one person only for a long term of years to the exclusion of all others . |
| 10 | These mines were frequently tiny operations , perhaps run by families which might work an area only for a short time . |
| 11 | I have given my consent , intending to gratify her wishes in this respect only for a short while . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You may think you have purse-netted every hole only for a bolting rabbit suddenly to push up through the snow as if from nowhere and make its bid to escape . |
| 15 | Many children come into care only for a short time while their parents try to sort out their difficulties . |
| 16 | However , the thermospheres of Mars and Venus have comparable temperatures only for the Sun-facing side of Venus . |
| 17 | This situation meant freedom of expression only for the wealthy and already powerful . |
| 18 | However he remained with the Wellington unit only for a short time before being posted to Control Office duties at Luqa . |
| 19 | This is a natural condition before menarche , and it re-occurs after menopause , during pregnancy as well as after abortion or birth ( post-partum amenorrhoea ) that lasts for some months even if the women does not breastfeed or nurses only for a short period . |
| 20 | One limitation of this as a punishment is that it may not be very severe — it may imply a moderate loss of profit relative to the collusive agreement — and so may support collusion only for a small set of discount rates . |
| 21 | If matching tiles are not available , the payment should be based upon non-matching tiles only for the damaged area . |