Example sentences of "and only [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cells could be multipotential , migrate to all the sites and only once they had arrived would they , due to local signals , be directed along the correct developmental pathway . |
| 2 | Nothing could be more unsatisfactory than Ellen 's barely decipherable notes which came rarely and only after money had been remitted . |
| 3 | Over the centuries the best Italian architects , Solari , Amadeo , Pelligrino Tibaldi ( known as Il Pellegrini ) and Richini , worked on the building , although the façade was actually finished by Carlo Amati , the final stage being completed after many years of inactivity , and only after Napoleon took an interest in the building . |
| 4 | ‘ My parents , when visiting to see the newborn , were always very careful to ignore , almost , the new baby and fuss the older one just as she was used to , and only after she had gone to sleep did they make a fuss of the new baby . |
| 5 | In this scenario the mammals emerge not as natural conquerors , but as opportunists , filling a gap , an ‘ adaptive zone ’ with a range of ecological niches , after , and only after , the old regime had run its course . |
| 6 | And only after the incident did she find out that a handwritten notice had been displayed in the booking office . |
| 7 | ‘ Looking over this table ’ , Mr Frye observes , ‘ we can see that European fiction , during the last fifteen centuries , has steadily moved its center of gravity down the list ’ — so much so that , as has been remarked of The Hobbit , the co-existence of ‘ romance ’ characters like Thorin Oakenshield with ‘ ironic heroes ’ like Bilbo Baggins is immediately comic and only after many adventures rises to gravity . |
| 8 | I believe very much that every artist must first learn the language of his art , the conventions , and only after he has mastered them , can he go on . |
| 9 | The children were only allowed to open the present she indicated and only after she had looked at her watch to give the go-ahead to tear the paper off ‘ It was completely mad , ’ says Charles . |
| 10 | Alice sought out Mary and they watched appreciatively as the two strong , tall , graceful , beautifully built young men whirled each other about , endured two dog falls — draws — and only after several lengthy spasms of athletic tussling arrived at the deciding fall . |
| 11 | The worker should make strenuous efforts to help parents exercise their rights fully , for example by helping them obtain legal advice , and only after these steps have been taken , should a final agreement be signed . |
| 12 | The reports of the amnestic effects of protein synthesis inhibitors were first ignored , often on the same sorts of a priori grounds that had led to my initial scepticism , and only after some struggle accepted by these definers of the field . |
| 13 | The novel , as I should have thought was tolerably well known , first appeared serially in the Revue de Paris ; then came the prosecution for obscenity ; and only after the acquittal was the work published in book form . |
| 14 | Local authorities are to be given the leading role in the organisation of community care , but the decision to give them this responsibility was taken with the greatest possible reluctance and only after every other possibility had been explored . |
| 15 | He exuded sympathy and concern , urged Amiss to take as much time off as he felt necessary , assured him he would be given sick pay and that his job would be secure , and only after a long argument agreed very reluctantly that he could come back on duty the following day . |
| 16 | The dislocation in C may be because its scribe entered Lyfing 's death under 1020 from another record , and only after this turned to the entry in the main Cnut chronicle , from which he then omitted it . |
| 17 | And only after he had paid back every penny of his debt on the new barrow and been left with hardly any spare cash to talk of did he begin to realise just how good a costermonger the old fellow must have been . |
| 18 | And only after they had been proven would we sell them to others . |
| 19 | A divorced woman can only use her former husband 's contribution record to establish her right to the basic pension and only provided she contributes in her own right as soon as the marriage ends and she does not remarry ( unless she is divorced over the age of 60 ) . |
| 20 | There is only one way : in terms of symbolic representations of the predicates , as in ‘ X is a chair and only if it is a portable seat for one person ’ . |
| 21 | Such contract or contracts may be varied if , and only if , the rules so provide , by a majority of the members or by a specified majority . |
| 22 | We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person if , and only if , he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express — that is , if he knows what observations would lead him , under certain conditions , to accept the proposition as being true , or reject it as being false . |
| 23 | This way of putting the question reveals a sound judgement of the school curriculum : it has to be related to a child 's needs , and justified if and only if it satisfies those needs . |
| 24 | Patients poorly controlled in clinic are referred to the Unit as outpatients and only if this fails to resolve their problems is a short admission considered . |
| 25 | Since the metric function M is unchanged , it follows that the boundary conditions for the new solution are satisfied if , and only if , they are satisfied for the seed solution . |
| 26 | And only if such change occurs , and local government is organized in strong units with power to take major decisions , will present trends towards centralization be reversed , and local democracy secure its place as a major part of our democratic system . |
| 27 | Thus the QLF structure above survives if and only if the constraints on the third argument of pick-up2 and on the only argument of jack2 are consistent . |
| 28 | Thus FRF′R ’ is not normally the identity ; it is the identity , if and only if FR=RF , that is , F and R commute . |
| 29 | They avoid trouble at all times and only if they are cornered or pestered will they bite at their attackers . |
| 30 | In doing so it attempts to limit the effects of the imbalance to the most superficial levels — in other words , the physical level — and only if it fails to do so will emotional imbalances , or if the stresses go deeper , mental imbalances , be manifest . |