Example sentences of "[conj] only at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were many cases where Bloomsbury House was involved not at all , or only at the last moment when it was generally too late to offer any constructive help . |
| 2 | Nothing is known about the first 7 years of this person 's life , and whilst only scattered information exists about the middle span , we know that only at the age 42 did the Earth begin to flower . |
| 3 | The cells from the outside move into the interior during gastrulation and only at the end of the gastrulation are they more or less in their proper position . |
| 4 | The dividing wall holding this tank only attracts sunlight from one side and for only a couple of hours a day , and only at the height of summer . |
| 5 | A real detective superintendent investigating a murder will confine himself largely to facts and only at the height of questioning someone he is almost certain is his quarry is he likely to go into motivation as a way , as often as not , of bring about a final confession . |
| 6 | in academic scholarship the divorce between the ‘ two cultures ’ , the humanities and the sciences , sadly persists , and only at the practitioner level is there some collaboration between the social worker and the public health engineer … |
| 7 | ‘ If you look at something like raising a purchase order , what it tends to involve is combining bits of paper from different departments and only at the very end is a computer entry made — which is not a massive improvement on all-paper systems , ’ said . |
| 8 | I did n't know him and only at the end did he wish to know me . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He 'll be able to take marvellous photos while he 's in India , wo n't he ? ’ her mother had gone on , and only at the tail-end of their conversation did she think to mention their mortgage . |
| 10 | Regional performance is influenced , if only at the margins , by regional policy . |
| 11 | The Urban Programme has been one policy instrument through which the government has been able , if only at the margins , to influence the position of black people in the major conurbations . |
| 12 | A cynical nihilist , Andrei expected a sticky end ( if only at the hands of his master and mistress ) and wanted to live well before it came . |
| 13 | Of course , even the most empirical study is informed by a problematic — if only at the level of choice of what is significant , and this study is a good deal less innocent than that , but the story will be told first . |
| 14 | The movement of thought happens not directly through any outside intervention , but through the sub-culture 's inner compulsion to reflect on itself , if only at the level of current findings , theories and views . |
| 15 | Last week , the Estonian Parliament compromised on both fronts — but only at the price of jeopardising the alliance between nationalists and the republic 's Communist Party which has hitherto allowed Estonia so nimbly to sidestep a decisive confrontation with Moscow . |
| 16 | They may intervene in the work of some departments but only at the cost of neglecting broad strategy and the work of others . |
| 17 | Nature was given its due , but only at the southern tip of the marsh . |
| 18 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 19 | Now the company needs an additional £1 million , which its backers the British Technology Group and Prutec , the venture capital fund set up by the Prudential Assurance company , say they will give — but only at the expense of an ambitious programme of research . |
| 20 | Anyone else may appear , but only at the inspector 's discretion . |
| 21 | The issue of such shares is treated as giving rise to an income tax liability on the recipient shareholder , but only at the higher rate of income tax . |
| 22 | But only at the moment when they have proven themselves to be better than the incumbent . |
| 23 | Those who have recourse to the deus ex machina of lethal rays or thunderbolts from outer space may incline to the former view , but only at the expense of disregarding the abundant evidence in the stratigraphic record of a correlation between mass extinctions and physical events on earth ( Hallam , 1981c ) . |
| 24 | Slightly more personal is 60 ( ‘ Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore ’ ) , but only at the very last gasp , as it were , defeating time : ‘ And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand , /Praising thy worth , despite his cruel hand . ’ |
| 25 | This new sort of foundationalist , who will be considered further in chapter 6 , could escape the demands of F 2 , but only at the cost of abandoning the foundationalists ' favourite weapon , the regress argument . |
| 26 | However , it seems that gravity should provide a limit , but only at the very short length scale of 10 -33 cm or the very high energy of 10 28 length scales shorter than this , one would expect that space-time would cease to behave like a smooth continuum and that it would acquire a foamlike structure because of quantum fluctuations of the gravitational field . |
| 27 | The United States under Reagan reduced its share , but only at the cost of a large budget deficit . |
| 28 | ARC 's leading boat , the Kelsall catamaran Manx Cat completed the 3,600-mile passage in 14 days 17 hr , 59 min 42 sec , but only at the expense of hundreds of hours motoring , arriving on 10 December . |
| 29 | It was a representation , in effect , as to the future , namely , that payment of the rent would not be enforced at the full rate but only at the reduced rate . |
| 30 | The Order strikes not at the creation of the obligation but only at the performance of it while the Order is in force . |