Example sentences of "only [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public-sector contracts anyway only account for a small proportion of Olivetti 's sales , says Mr De Benedetti . |
| 2 | Although there are over 20 million individual shareholders in Japan they only account for a quarter of the total shares held . |
| 3 | Such bids are regularly submitted but only account for a very small amount of stock allotted . |
| 4 | According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle this ‘ virtual ’ photon can only exist for a time . |
| 5 | Grants of any kind are usually only given for a proportion of the cost of the work to be done , but when necessary , local authorities can make loans for the balance , on which interest has to be paid . |
| 6 | In addition , the copyright monopoly is only given for a certain period of time ( eg in the UK , 50 years from the end of the year in which the author dies ) , but databases are usually continuously updated with new information , therefore does the protection period keep changing ? |
| 7 | It usually starts shortly after the animals have been weaned and in most instances it only persists for a few months . |
| 8 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 9 | He had only to go for a spin with Freddie Reynalde or spend half an hour too long in the pub for her shoulders to slump and her eyes to fill . |
| 10 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 11 | Stead 's dramatisation of the issue of sexual exploitation not only stilled for the moment many fundamental conflicts of interest between participants in the agitation , but it also obscured the contradictions inherent in the ideology that informed this agitation against child prostitution . |
| 12 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 13 | Breathless , she straightened up and said fiercely , ‘ You can only stay for a minute and then you must promise to go . ’ |
| 14 | However campers should only stay for a night or two , be unobtrusive and sensitive to wildlife , and leave no litter . |
| 15 | Those moths that settle there will probably only stay for a day and then continue higher still . |
| 16 | Warned that she could only stay for a few moments , Laura had sat down quietly in a chair beside the bed , taking her cousin 's inert , pale hand and praying , as she had never prayed before , that Liz would be able to survive her ordeal . |
| 17 | ‘ We can only stay for an hour , ’ said Ginnie . |
| 18 | Only inhabited for the past two hundred years , the unique flora and fauna of these delightfully unsophisticated island have been allowed to evolve undisturbed over the past 600 million years , yielding a unique heritage of birds and blooms encompassing the spectrum 's every colour . |
| 19 | You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare . |
| 20 | So the argument that Mr Major needs only to wait for the inevitable victory , after the inevitable economic recovery , should be taken with a fistful of salt . |
| 21 | She said in a small voice , ‘ She told me that you only cared for the vines . |
| 22 | I 've only come for the afternoon because Sheila 's off sick . |
| 23 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 24 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 25 | As Cati left , she continued , to Sabina , who was sprinkling flour into a basin and whirling it into a dough with her fist , ‘ But you can only wait for the storming to pass … . ’ |
| 26 | She 's worried any of them could be killed … and for now she can only wait for the missing cat to return |
| 27 | it only needs for a little bit of attention on a wire or something |
| 28 | The case only confined for the policemen the inequities of the legal system : justice depends on who the prisoner gets . |
| 29 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 30 | East End working class attitudes have been parodied by Alf Garnett as portrayed by Warren Mitchell , yet his strongly loyalist , anti-socialist , anti-foreigner , anti-intellectual , male chauvinist opinions appear to reflect real attitudes , only exaggerated for the purposes of the comedy . |