Example sentences of "[coord] only [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your investigators now will not only have to keep to the law but they will have to obey regulations as well , or only occasionally and with their eye very much over their shoulder slide past them . |
| 2 | Job losses additional to ‘ structural shifts ’ occurred because of the relative status , and often age of product , of branch factories within their respective multi-plant firms , and only rarely because of their absolute location in Britain . |
| 3 | I registered that it was Mme Guérigny and her brothers and sisters-in-law who uttered the calumnies , and only later that Jean-Claude never took issue with them . |
| 4 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 5 | The question is , how did these people come to see themselves primarily as nervous and only secondarily as hungry , malnourished ? |
| 6 | South of the Sahara , it was only in South Africa that stations were built on a European scale , and only there that stations were replaced by new and larger versions . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll believe that when I 've seen the boat 's log , ’ said Neil drily , ‘ and only then after it 's been checked by an expert . |
| 8 | He feared the goats only marginally less than the snorting , grinning pigs , and only then because the five nannies and their billy were usually safely tied up in the long grass . |
| 9 | It took over an hour to negotiate the couple of miles to the hotel and only then because , in exasperation , I ignored all rules of good driving not to mention half-a-dozen laws , and made my way blithely down a one-way street ( the wrong way , of course ) and down a ( prohibited ) tram-only lane . |
| 10 | We did n't consummate the marriage for two weeks and only then because she was pressurised into it . |
| 11 | ‘ We did n't consummate the marriage for two weeks and only then because she was pressured into it . |
| 12 | Levy and Calvet , both long-time advocates of a five-year acclimatisation period for Europe after 1992 , are thought to have agreed to press the European Commission to deny the Japanese unhindered access to Europe until 2002 , and only then if it 's reciprocated . |
| 13 | Of these , only the Commodore 64C is now worth buying , and only then if you never plan to add a disc drive . |
| 14 | Plants will be excavated , no matter how well-rooted , the only possible exception being the Java fern and only then if it 's securely attached to wood or rocks . |
| 15 | However , in the current economic climate it is only major corporates that will find demand for their SCP , and only then if it is rated by at least one of the rating agencies such as Moody 's or Standard and Poors . |
| 16 | As we drive to McDonald 's , Blake explains that the company can probably only come down to about one p.p.m. zinc , and only then if it spends a lot of money . |
| 17 | Therefore , students generally only really looked to housing benefit to top up their accommodation needs and only then if they were in property not owned by their college . |
| 18 | A DC changes state from PROPOSED to AGREED only when the last interested user has accepted the DC using option 2.2.0 and only then if all interested users have accepted it . |
| 19 | Time is money in the City and few people are worth an hour unless it 's over lunch and only then if you 're involved in a takeover bid . |
| 20 | Ken did n't look up until he 'd finished the story he was reading and only then when his lips had finally stopped moving . |
| 21 | In Aquitaine and in India alike the Englishman was , and is , a foreigner , with a home elsewhere : in our other colonies men , with their families , settle and only now and then return ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Everything had been geared towards winning today and only now and over the next two weeks will we be concentrating on the Twickenham game , ’ acknowledged Armstrong who had his usual superb display . |
| 23 | This department was responsible for the eventual establishment of school clinics throughout the country , but only slowly and after considerable controversy . |
| 24 | She can hold a spoon and feed herself but only slowly and with spillage . |
| 25 | If Patrick was sent back to the hospital he might be temporarily revived , but only briefly and perhaps in some damaged state . |
| 26 | He jumped , but only just before he was pushed . |
| 27 | She knew that these sort of wonders do pop up in the world from time to time , but only once or twice in a hundred years . |
| 28 | She wanted somehow to have her mother for herself , but only so that she could reject her herself . |
| 29 | In a moment he let her go , but only so that he might lift her bodily from the ground . |
| 30 | Such cultures would encourage citizens to participate in the political process , but only occasionally and within the limited rules of the democratic game . |