Example sentences of "only for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legal fees and stamp duty for sale and purchase are reimbursed to existing employees ; new staff receive reimbursement of these costs only for buying the new house . |
| 2 | Apple Computer Inc is opening its Company Store , previously accessible only to Apple employees , to the public , but only for buying Apple-logoed merchandise , computer accessories and software — not for buying Macintoshes or peripherals . |
| 3 | These speculations are used as justification not only for opposing more prosecution advocacy by employed lawyers , but for blocking the entire application . |
| 4 | Right from the days of the early caveman when he used fire not only for cooking but he also used it as means of lighting and keeping his family warm er during the winter months . |
| 5 | The basic cakes need to be moist , tasty and firm , not only for eating but for cutting and shaping . |
| 6 | These test strips should be used only for monitoring and not for making executive decisions . |
| 7 | The help facility is very useful , not only for training new users , but also for infrequent users who suddenly find that they have to take over urgent work at short notice . |
| 8 | Supper parties were only for grown , ups . |
| 9 | By the middle of the seventeenth century the parish coffin was regarded as fit only for transporting the corpses of the poor to the grave . |
| 10 | No ordinary carriage , not subject to any hasty conversion to ensure its usefulness , but out of the railway factory yards of Leningrad and designed only for transporting the prisoners . |
| 11 | The computer power that even the smallest practice can now afford means that there is no excuse for the well-organised firm not to be making use of this opportunity not only for operating efficiency but also as a tool of competition . |
| 12 | Shelves are handy , not only for displaying plants , but also to hold seedlings closer to the glass where they can get most benefit from the light . |
| 13 | The Lemma table in the Main Database is used only for reporting purposes . |
| 14 | The four basic relations between classes furnish a model not only for establishing a fundamental group of sense relations , but also for defining a set of systematic variants applicable to virtually all other paradigmatic sense relations . |
| 15 | ‘ Only for courting pneumonia , ’ he said softly and closed the gap between them to lift her face to his . |
| 16 | Asked if he 'd ever been arrested before , Mitchum replied , ‘ Only for speeding , drunkenness and disorderly conduct . ’ |
| 17 | However , such examples indicate that socialization involving prolonged interaction with adults is essential not only for fitting new members into society but also to the process of actually becoming human . |
| 18 | He was going to carpet her not only for arresting a part-time MI6 agent for murder without sufficient evidence , but also for fraternising with the ‘ funnies ’ between the sheets . |
| 19 | Certainly , water is used a great deal in settlements , not only for drinking by people and animals , but also for various crafts and simple industrial processes , and as a source of power . |
| 20 | Ironically , it was a severe injury that first brought Carvill 's Hill to Martin Pipe 's stables in Somerset where , working closely with the Bristol vets , he has established an enviable reputation not only for helping horses to recover but also for avoiding the injuries that plague racehorses , especially jumpers . |
| 21 | This has far reaching consequences at the cultural level not only for learning but also for the design of jobs and even for leisure pursuits which increasingly depend on the same kind of interface . |
| 22 | Only for taking coal from the hills in the south to the power station just over the ridge . |
| 23 | A mirror is an essential piece of furniture — not only for checking your appearance , putting on make up , or straightening your tie — but also as an integral part of the home 's decoration . |
| 24 | We still remain then , for moral as for prudential questions , at the position that imperatives can serve only for judging between spontaneous reactions . |
| 25 | The Crying Game is disappointing only for falling well below the levels of magical beauty and horror of its apparent model , Jordan 's own Mona Lisa . |
| 26 | The first guideline is very important , not only for reducing your weight now but for controlling it in the future . |
| 27 | Why is it that so often we think of pork as suitable only for roasting , for chops or sausages ? |
| 28 | In this work we give full weight to the speaker/system distinction that has been introduced above , and hence to the general principle that speakers are ultimately responsible , not only for introducing and adopting linguistic changes , but also for maintaining diversity in language states . |
| 29 | Gold was used not only for covering images but for such auxiliary but revealing purposes as providing members of the Holy Family and Saints with haloes , encircling the head in paint , mosaic or sheet metal . |
| 30 | Physical effort is required only for turning and guiding and , as the feed speed is slow , precise depth control is easy . |