Example sentences of "be [verb] only for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any group can make a bid and will be considered seriously , but assistance will be given only for one management — employee buy-out team per company . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This kind of arrangement may be possible in the more flexible reports of major excavations now being planned , and will be a great advance on the old-fashioned set-piece type of report which seems to be designed only for those wanting to study particular types of artefact , rather than the history and significance of the site itself . |
| 4 | The university has made clear that any funds raised from a sale will be used only for that purpose and not to clear its accumulated deficit , as originally intended . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although the atmosphere , mmHg and torr are all used in scientific work , they should strictly be used only for rough comparisons or as ratios . |
| 8 | Accordingly I am invoicing you for £75 ( and CNRS separately for £75 ) on the understanding that the tapes will be used only for this joint research and that you will be separably and jointly bound by the conditions of the contract . |
| 9 | Accordingly , I am invoicing you for £75 ( and Vassar separately for £75 ) on the understanding that the tapes will be used only for this joint research and that you will be separately and jointly bound by the conditions of the contract , a copy of which is attached . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The original titles should , said the minister , be retained only for statutory purposes . |
| 12 | It is true that warrants to the police in criminal investigations may be renewed only for one month . |
| 13 | The second principle simply says that ‘ personal data shall be held only for one or more specified and lawful purposes ’ . |