Example sentences of "only [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can not only compensate for declining liquor sales , but can even arrest and reverse that trend . |
| 2 | She only asked for one word to be removed . ’ |
| 3 | This would only make for higher scores which ca n't be good for the game . |
| 4 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
| 5 | It would only make for more difficulties later on . |
| 6 | The use of weights coupled with longer exercise periods is very demanding and is only intended for serious athletes . |
| 7 | Although technically possible on magnetic tape , logarithmic searches are too slow to be economic , so they are normally only considered for direct access devices . |
| 8 | However , we see the thesis as overambitious since it only holds for certain groups and issues and for a particular period of British politics — and that period , may have passed at least for the moment . |
| 9 | Home responsibilities protection only counts for full tax years , which is a disadvantage , since most of us do not arrange our lives from April to April . |
| 10 | The guidance says that Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , ‘ is minded ’ to go for Japanese-style pendulum arbitration — where the arbiter would be free only to find for one party or the other , and would not be able to compromise . |
| 11 | The man 's hair mass rocks back and forth on his rigidly stationary head like a wildly excited toupee and is only matched for unusual activity by his furiously trembling eyebrows and the cracked black toe-caps of his shoes moving up an down like wasps ' abdomens about to insert their stings . |
| 12 | Provision for deferred tax is only made for any differences when they are expected to reverse in the foreseeable future , and no provision is usually made for deferred tax assets . |
| 13 | But the pastor only came for one service every two weeks even then , in the war . ’ |
| 14 | So we 're only looking for fourteen businesses on each assignment . |
| 15 | This means not only looking for good practice in the present but also looking for indicators for the future . |
| 16 | Nevertheless if they were going to fly again they were gon na pay for a seat and they 're only looking for some recompense towards a new new ticket what 's wrong with sending them a voucher y'know , a properly produced voucher that we c that 's controlled properly by and all they do is guarantee any travel at their normal travel agent , do the business , attach the voucher to the B S P |
| 17 | We are very big and therefore we 're only looking for big business , is that , is that fair comment ? |
| 18 | And it would have shown on the certificate , the time of birth — it 's only done for multiple births . |
| 19 | After several public meetings to discuss plann-ing matters the bureaucracy were left confounded , much to the delight of the ratepayers who may have only attended for that reason ! |
| 20 | For the first time a non-aligned state provided not only support for Soviet warships on a commercial basis but did so without in the process tarnishing its non-aligned credentials . |
| 21 | But where the qualification is the doing of something of value to the seller , and where the qualification only suffices for one sale and must be reacquired before another sale , I find it hard to regard the repeated acquisitions of the qualification as anything other than parts of the consideration for the sales . |
| 22 | In my day we treated our old heroes right and they only played for 10 bob a week . |
| 23 | But Mrs Rubinstein says she could only look for common themes . |
| 24 | She 's only going for one class . |
| 25 | I thought bloody hell Lynn you 're only waiting for fifty P , you know ? |
| 26 | Blood is not only used for straightforward transfusions , products extracted from blood have a whole number of uses — from the treatment of burns to the prevention of infection . |
| 27 | Each new barrel costs £1.50 ; they are normally only used for one race and there are 50 barrels on a raft . |
| 28 | The living-room has a lived-in feel about it and the parlour , so immaculately tidy was so obviously only used for special occasions . |
| 29 | These days they are only used for ceremonial occasions . |
| 30 | The slightly damp , hygroscopic pages of a book provide excellent storage for peels which are either awaiting permanent mounting or are only needed for temporary examination . |