Example sentences of "[verb] only for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The new guidelines will tell the police to give no more than two cautions , except in rare circumstances , and to caution only for minor offences . |
| 3 | Tranquillizers should be prescribed only for short periods to help patients through crises where their levels of anxiety are such that their coping ability is grossly impaired . |
| 4 | One Midlands wine wholesaler was ordered to clear dust from a warehouse floor used only for cased goods , the association said . |
| 5 | The original airstrip was designed only for short nights to the mainland in the days when the Foreign Office was encouraging the seduction of the Falklands by Argentina . ’ |
| 6 | Once more , however , they provided only for small numbers and their success even in establishing this few in permanent work or independence appears to have been small . |
| 7 | There 's , to be clear about it , that it 's completely confidential , that their looking only for particular words that are used in different parts of the country and in different locations . |
| 8 | Chapman stuck to his policy of going only for top-class players , for he knew the crowds would come to watch stars like Clem Stephenson and Charles Wilson , and with Huddersfield 's limited supply of soccer enthusiasts it was essential to use every means to attract them . |
| 9 | Nor was the pope immune from criticism and the new pope , Innocent , is described by one writer as caring only for worldly goods . |
| 10 | Yet the new royal style was initially used only for diplomatic relations with France : the old style was employed by some departments of English government until June 1260 . |
| 11 | Although the atmosphere , mmHg and torr are all used in scientific work , they should strictly be used only for rough comparisons or as ratios . |
| 12 | In late November , on the strength of this certificate — attesting to his own mental good health , and that the gun was to be used only for reasonable purposes — Lepine went to Checkmate Sports , a hunting and fishing store in north Montreal , and purchased a Sturm-Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle , ammunition and a magazine clip . |
| 13 | This implies , of course , that each method has only a limited potentiality and , to this extent , particular methods can be used only for certain kinds of research objectives . |
| 14 | In England , it would have been the parlour , and like the parlour , the salon was used only for entertaining visitors . |
| 15 | First , individuals do not work only for pecuniary rewards . |
| 16 | It said the box was definitely offered only for distributed environments . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The North-east coalfield developed early because of access to sea routes to the capital ; the other landlocked coalfields catered only for regional markets before canals and navigable rivers enabled them to lower their prices and until the railways opened up national markets . |
| 19 | Now it turned out that Jacobi 's method worked only for even numbers of squares , and that the case of an odd number was much harder . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But those who stay only for short periods of weeks or months are much more likely to be suffering from serious mental disorder than long term residents . |
| 22 | The original titles should , said the minister , be retained only for statutory purposes . |
| 23 | Practise only for short periods , never when you are tired . |
| 24 | The Hong Kong Government decided to introduce screening procedures to distinguish refugees from those who were leaving only for economic reasons . |
| 25 | From these observations the task before the court on this appeal can be distilled in this form : the court is concerned to inquire as to the persons with respect to whom Parliament is presumed to have been legislating when using the expression , ‘ any person , ’ and in making that inquiry Parliament is to be taken to have been legislating only for British subjects or foreigners coming to the United Kingdom , unless the contrary is expressed ( which it is not here ) or is plainly implicit . |