Example sentences of "only be [vb pp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nostrils had only been gone for ten minutes before the speaker announced : |
| 2 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 3 | Credit will only be given for technical articles and credit for this type of reading is unlikely to account for more than 25% of total unstructured CPE . |
| 4 | Children are encouraged to play freely and imaginatively , but at a later stage may be helped to give goods a price-marking of counters , e.g. a packet marked with would only be exchanged for four counters . |
| 5 | Psychotropic drugs should only be prescribed for good reasons . |
| 6 | There is a three-month time limit , which can only be extended for good reasons . |
| 7 | So , while herbs undoubtedly have marvellous potential for curing illness , home cures should only be undertaken for minor ailments . |
| 8 | These can , however , only be paid for six years in arrears , so this concession may not help if you think about it too late . |
| 9 | A Co-op spokesman says : ‘ We have found an alternative firm but it has meant that instead of mortgage repayments being met for a year , they will now only be paid for six months — and the price has had to rise as well . ’ |
| 10 | Calling on North Korea to make a similar pledge , Roh said that nuclear energy would only be used for peaceful purposes . |
| 11 | The conditions of use to which all users are required to agree insist among other things that users should not attempt to identify particular individuals or households , that the data should only be used for academic purposes , and that any publications which make extensive use of the data should acknowledge this . |
| 12 | Therefore , some of the larger single roses become giant-sized once they are pressed , and can really only be used for big arrangements on walls , such as murals , so try to concentrate on the smaller varieties of rose , as you will still be astonished at their relative size once they are pressed . |
| 13 | And the day after Central broadcast a documentary on the Marsh Arabs in Southern Iraq … revealing how communities are being destroyed … the Prince condemned Saddam Hussein for claiming the marshes are only being drained for agricultural purposes . |
| 14 | The Borrowdale mines in the lane District , discovered in 1564 , yielded such fine graphite that it was jealously guarded , extractions only being sold for six weeks of the year . |