Example sentences of "only for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 2 | It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out . |
| 3 | In India , fixed-price shops exist not only for the benefit of travellers ; locals use them as well . |
| 4 | However , I suppose I 'll now have to explain this soft/hard vacuum principal more technically , if only for the benefit of Mr.Peavey . |
| 5 | It is important to begin with this sense of perspective , lest the impression be given that politics exists only for the benefit of those who practise it — a kind of hobby ( or , better still , paid profession ) for an educated élite who compete among themselves for the ‘ prize ’ of being on the winning side that forms the next government . |
| 6 | Chairman Eddie Slinger said : ‘ The committee took the view that there had been a deliberate and flagrant breach of Board regulations which Mr Lamb admitted were designed not only for the benefit of the Board but all registered cricketers . |
| 7 | This kind of operation is only for the benefit of the firm . |
| 8 | But for the most part , later eleventh-century castellans had contrived to convert their homage into little more than a symbol of deference and willingness to perform service ; the implications that their castle and office were enjoyed purely by delegation , that their duty lay in exercising powers and privileges only for the benefit of their lord , were swiftly transmuted into something much less rigid ; exactly what depended on the prince 's powers and proximity . |
| 9 | It was only for the benefit of anyone who might be watching , she reminded herself grimly , but she could n't ignore the tremor of longing deep within her , a longing almost too strong to contain . |
| 10 | Privatisation of the railways is designed only for the benefit of the Goevrnement and its friends . |
| 11 | But if marriage turns out to be less than satisfactory in the arena of personal fulfilment , this is not only for the marriage partners . |
| 12 | The Prudential appealed , contending that there were two contracts and that stamp duty was payable only for the land and the works completed on 18 October 1989 . |
| 13 | Defending champion Roger Black , chosen only for the relay , sees the individual 400m spot go to Wigan 's David Grindley . |
| 14 | ‘ Only for the opportunity to slake your desire ? |
| 15 | Some are no more than endless rearrangements of a phrase — every possible permutation of the words ‘ kick that habit , man ’ or ‘ junk is no good , baby ’ — notable only for the presence of the voice of the man himself , or a few choice trumpet parts by Don Cherry . |
| 16 | Equity markets recoiled from these gloomy indicators by falling sharply at the beginning of the week , pausing only for the Chancellor 's speech at the Tory Party conference , but still failing to recover lost ground by the close . |
| 17 | In order to maintain health , both personal and public , much energy has to be directed at maintaining an external environment which is as safe as possible , not only for the present but for future generations to inherit . |
| 18 | If one accepts this , even if only for the present and not as an inevitable fact for the future , then a responsibility lies with hearing society to meet not only the communication requirements of deaf people but also to understand and be able to work with this group in their language . |
| 19 | That 's only for the index if you want to get one out |
| 20 | ‘ Only for the winter , sir . ’ |
| 21 | At this level it is likely that you will be responsible not only for the supervision of legal staff but also for staff with a variety of disciplines . |
| 22 | First , and most critical , every manager must be held accountable not only for the work of subordinates but also for adding value to their work . |
| 23 | ‘ What a pity you are here only for the day — I could pick your brains very profitably . ’ |
| 24 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 25 | Thanks to McAlpine Helicopters , the Aerospatiale helicopter distributor for the UK , I was given the chance to join the PPL rotor wing elite … if only for the day . |
| 26 | She congratulated herself on the enterprise and initiative which had allowed her to cheat Rose Cottage , to outwit ‘ Time ’ , if only for the day . |
| 27 | He advocated state support only for the minority who could not be self-helping because they were too old or disabled for work or because there were insufficient jobs available ; and he accepted the need for punitive treatment of the undeserving at the base of society . |
| 28 | While it is essential , not only for the support through food supply for indigenous populations but also to provide a sound base on which economic progress can be made , it is unfortunate that in so many cases injudicious land-use practices have negated the very factor , increased productivity , that they sought to improve . |
| 29 | Perhaps it is too much to hope that this concert finally dragged the Petersfield Musical Festival into the 20th century , but with a promised appearance by the acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra next year , as well as The Dream of Gerontius , it remains only for the committee to do something about the slow start to the week for the festival to regain some of its former splendour . |
| 30 | Insufficient data on survival ( patients admitted only for the management of the acute bleeding ) or incomplete medical records excluded seven patients ; 12 other patients were not studied because of prehepatic portal hypertension ( four ) , associated hepatocellular carcinoma or other neoplasms ( seven ) , or previous shunting ( one ) . |