Example sentences of "[verb] only for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The products of the Dorset potters were probably intended only for the auxiliary forts , as the evidence from Waddon Hill and Nanstallon ( Fox and Ravenhill , 1972 ) suggests . |
| 2 | The appointment of Stewart as vice-captain , opening batsman and wicketkeeper collapsed when Gooch missed the second Test , with Blakey consequently keeping wicket in two Tests when he was intended only for the one-day internationals . |
| 3 | The whole place looks dead and deserted , a ruin fit only for the dead and carrion birds … |
| 4 | This means that an extra search will be added only for every additional ( 2n + 1 ) or ( 3n + 1 ) records , where n is the number of records per track . |
| 5 | Medical treatment was considered only for the remaining three patients . |
| 6 | The first was for Exeter 's own services to be concentrated on Digby and Wonford House Hospitals , with Exminster to provide only for the other Devon districts . |
| 7 | This connection between high status employment work and present dissatisfaction with housework holds only for the middle-class women , but there is evidence that the tendency to be dissatisfied with housework in relation to the status of one 's previous job may involve the question of a ‘ reference group ’ . |
| 8 | The profession is fast becoming only for the wealthy , a doctor warned . |
| 9 | Pausing only for a brief tongue-twister — she did that very well , Karen , where your tongues circle each other tantalizingly , barely touching — we gave chase along the footpath which runs through the meadows bordering the river . |
| 10 | Mozart , in contrast , is held up as a kind of plaster saint , a spiritual being who lived through his music , pausing only for the occasional game of billiards . |
| 11 | Our investigations of characteristics of user establishments were made only for the private sector , since we assumed non-market forces to be of too great importance in the public sector to permit most of the relevant propositions to be tested . |
| 12 | If a decision has been taken to sell or terminate an operation and the reporting entity is demonstrably committed to the sale or termination , then provisions should be made only for the direct costs of the sale or termination and any operating losses of the operation up to the date of sale or termination ; provisions for future operating losses may not be made in other circumstances . |
| 13 | The conservative teacher who is looking only for a reasonable salary and a peaceful life . |
| 14 | She knew perfectly well that he was not very interested in paintings and that he was looking only for a secluded place where he could kiss her . |
| 15 | Just as zooming should be done only for a good reason , panning is also a camera move which should be used sparingly if it is not to become visually irritating . |
| 16 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | It rests also on the insight that income " transferred " by this means was not used only for the minimum relief of destitution , for the old , widowed , orphaned and infirm , but also for the purchase of some " decencies " , for the supplementation of the earnings of the underemployed as well as the relief of the involuntarily unemployed , and for the apprenticing of the children of the poor . |
| 19 | Not only does this pick them out , but the underline can be used only for the main emphasis of the sentence . |
| 20 | The chemistry had been between them from the start , waiting only for a wayward spark to ignite it . |
| 21 | The complexity was intended to last only for a transitional period . |
| 22 | The UK had maintained that rates should be left for the market to decide , and had demanded the indefinite maintenance of discretionary zero rating for sensitive items ( the Commission 's position being that zero rating would be tolerated only for a limited period ) . |
| 23 | When education in the true sense existed only for the inheriting classes , acceptable spoken English was something one was raised with at home . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But this joint venture between the two parents ' genes worked only for the main genes within the nucleus of a living cell . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | The Government warned that it would apply only for a short period . |
| 28 | Often , it was argued that science degrees qualified students to enter ‘ general ’ jobs such as management as well as specialized scientific ones , whereas arts students could apply only for the general jobs . |
| 29 | I read it , literally hungrily , for four days , stopping only for the daily half pint of soup and four slices of bread , and sleep . |
| 30 | For ease of reference , a separate list of fees and compensation fund contributions is set out in Part I. These fees apply only for the practising year 1992/93 . |