Example sentences of "[conj] only [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They then turned to the govt. & only when the govt. took action did situations improve at all . |
| 2 | At one time in the recent past , willow-pattern plates and dishes were very popular , but did people buy them for the sad story of the elopement they depicted , or only because they were fashionable at the time ? |
| 3 | The test under option five would therefore be that the court should intervene only if there is unreasonableness in Lord Greene M.R. 's narrow sense of that term , or only if there is manifest irrationality in the sense that preceded the development of the hard look doctrine in the United States . |
| 4 | procedurally , does it apply whenever Article 1600A is used or only if a qualified majority vote is taken ? |
| 5 | In particular , a change of context will attenuate latent inhibition whether the test context be novel or familiar but will restore the OR only when a novel test context is used . |
| 6 | Whether platelet endo-peroxides have a proaggregatory role in their own right or only when converted to thromboxane A 2 has been the subject of many studies ( Bunting et al , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | And when you write your address down , do you quote your full postcode , always sometimes or only when asked ? |
| 8 | If a disease is caused by a mutation in a gene , it may be ‘ dominant ’ or ‘ recessive ’ — that is , it may occur when only one of the two copies is mutated in spite of the presence of a normal gene , or only when both are defective . |
| 9 | English law has special provisions to allow for computer records to be admitted , however , it is currently uncertain whether the conditions apply to all computer evidence or only when admitted as hearsay . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was her own pride reawakening after all these weeks which prompted her to defy Luke 's distaste , albeit only after she was sure he was asleep , moving up close to his back again , lifting an arm and curving it loosely over the side of his body . |
| 11 | It was a matter of considerable comment that only after the setback of the first ballot did Mrs Thatcher herself take the step of meeting backbenchers in the Commons tea room . |
| 12 | Place believed that only since his youth in the 1780s had London 's artisans begun to improve into a more " respectable " class . |
| 13 | For the reason that there can so often be delay in obtaining the husband 's signature , it is recommended that only once the documentation has been agreed and executed should a " completion date " be arranged so that the wife 's solicitors can make the necessary searches against the husband in HM Land Charges Registry or HM Land Registry ( as the case may be ) . |
| 14 | For the reason that there can so often be delay in obtaining the husband 's signature , it is recommended that only once the documentation has been agreed and executed is a " completion date " arranged so that the wife 's solicitors may ( in the case of unregistered title ) make a search against the husband at HM Land Charges Registry . |
| 15 | He based this on the belief that only where property considerations were absent — as by definition they were in the proletariat — could ‘ true sex-love ’ develop . |
| 16 | In his An Inquiry into the Causes of the Progressive Depreciation of Agricultural Labour in Modern Times ( 1820 ) and A Statement of the Consequences Likely to Ensue from our Growing Excess of Population ( 1830 ) Barton argued that only where land was cheap and plentiful would economic growth be maximized and accordingly favoured emigration schemes and colonization of Canada . |
| 17 | ought to be said really , since Alan is not here and is erm is resigning , well perhaps that could come a little later on because I think both Joan and Alan er there should be some record other than this about the work they have put in for the Society er I mean the only idea I have , I do n't know how much of a a precedent this is , whether , whether anybody should be offered life membership of the the society or is that only for do you have to reach a certain age |
| 18 | Of course the response which is likely to be made to such objections is that God works with human beings , so that only when human society has reached a certain stage of development does it become appropriate to ordain women . |
| 19 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 20 | Yet it was abundantly clear that only when she was away from the influence of the house was she able to return to some semblance of normality . |
| 21 | In opposition to David Ricardo [ q.v. ] , he maintained that only when circulating capital increased did employment rise : any increase in fixed capital was unlikely to stimulate , and might significantly diminish , the demand for labour . |
| 22 | The principle is fixed that a scholar aspiring to high office must first teach at a graded series of medreses , one after the other , and that only when he reaches a certain grade does he become eligible for the great offices of the learned hierarchy , the mevleviyets , which are in their turn graded . |
| 23 | [ … ] It is perhaps no coincidence that only when one is prepared to recognize that the firm is based on authority do issues of power come to the fore in the theory of the firm . |
| 24 | When will the Minister accept that only when the Government can find new money for research and development , retraining and investment in new facilities will there be a real impact on this serious problem in the Scottish economy ? |
| 25 | Thus it is likely that no more than 1 or 2 per cent of the total budget would really be available for new projects and plans — and even that only if pupil numbers were retained and no other emergencies developed in any particular year . |
| 26 | On the other hand , people whose words are not answered may have to spend a lifetime screaming for what they want or need , convinced that only if they demand loudly , cajole , beg , bully or threaten , will they obtain what they want . |
| 27 | Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity . |
| 28 | Parkin asserts that only if women see themselves in non-family terms is stratification by gender meaningful , but he presents no evidence as to what women actually feel in relation to their family or class position . |
| 29 | Similarly when told that only if he returned all his tournament winnings would he get to heaven William replied in exasperation that it was impossible . |
| 30 | It should be initiated and managed by teachers inside the schools on the assumption that only if schools and teachers retain control of the evaluation process will they be committed to the implementation of any recommendations for action that arise . |