Example sentences of "only for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another famous figure , Joan Mirö , initially praised by Breton as ‘ the most Surrealist ’ painter , later described his Surrealist phase as having lasted only for a matter of months . |
| 2 | Van Gogh is famous not only for his art , but for his writing . |
| 3 | This sort of reading is only for the dedicated follower of the history of taste , though any reader particularly interested in a picture may find within a single catalogue entry an acutely discriminating judgement or interesting facts ; for example , Tietze 's entry also points out that Manet so much admired the Tintoretto self-portrait that he made a copy of it . |
| 4 | In my own case , he wrote , and I can speak only for myself , in my own case and in my own life there have been very few genuine beginnings , only three or perhaps four . |
| 5 | The relationship to images is destroyed , he wrote , when they are looked at only for themselves , gazed at only for themselves . |
| 6 | The relationship to images is destroyed , he wrote , when they are looked at only for themselves , gazed at only for themselves . |
| 7 | One Midlands wine wholesaler was ordered to clear dust from a warehouse floor used only for cased goods , the association said . |
| 8 | Usually it will be only for a few seconds , but it is the ability to do it instantly on demand that is so important . |
| 9 | Teach your child to use household products only for their proper purposes . |
| 10 | The funeral itself he remembers only for his mother 's withdrawn , uncommunicative state ; and for the solemnity with which his uncles — always sober and grave — conducted themselves on the day . |
| 11 | But only for one passing second . |
| 12 | Physical effort is required only for turning and guiding and , as the feed speed is slow , precise depth control is easy . |
| 13 | Such policies also pay only for hospital-related treatment , and many exclude treatment which does not include invasive techniques . |
| 14 | Sheikh Deedat quoted one sentence which said white women were useful only for copulation . |
| 15 | This egregious non sequitur requires further clarification , if only for your myriad younger readers . |
| 16 | ‘ The party must fight for its new image , not only for its own members , but also in front of the whole nation . ’ |
| 17 | When education in the true sense existed only for the inheriting classes , acceptable spoken English was something one was raised with at home . |
| 18 | The colour-printing facility , initially to be used only for advertising , may be used to produce a weekend ‘ leisure ’ colour supplement early next year . |
| 19 | Becker and Engelman combined only for a pleasantly smoochy encore by David Jaeger , composed this year and arranged by Engelman from a piano accompaniment to the viola . |
| 20 | Trekking permits are necessary only for off-road trips in certain areas . |
| 21 | It says that about 98,000 young people go missing annually , sometimes only for a short period . |
| 22 | Sir : The recent death of your food correspondent , Jeremy Round , was a cause of great sadness not only for his family and friends but also to the many thousands of readers who regularly enjoyed his articles . |
| 23 | It raised the more general and important question whether the determination of a statutory tribunal with a limited jurisdiction could give rise to issue estoppel at all , or only to cause of action estoppel ; in other words , whether it could give rise to an estoppel for all purposes or only for the limited purpose for which the jurisdiction to make the determination was conferred . |
| 24 | Only a short while later these were accused ( by Schiller amongst others ) of being not worthy of him - ‘ Fit only for the nursery , to use in connection with Noah 's Ark ’ — but the truth is they are irresistible . |
| 25 | The text has been cut quite wantonly and only for expediency , you feel . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And unlike many coupes which have , at best , room only for children in the rear , the Calibra will seat two adults comfortably in the back . |
| 28 | It was a coup not only for CND sentiments but for Hamnett personally , shooting her to instant fame around the world . |
| 29 | In at least one case , an artist has requested the option to buy back his own work , only for his letter to go unanswered ; Saatchi is known to have split up one series of paintings which were sold to him on the strength of verbal assurances that they would stay together . |
| 30 | Because of this , foreign currency mortgages , which are being sold very heavily at the moment by financial intermediaries ( linked to banks and other financial institutions which are providing the funds ) , are only for the financially sophisticated . |