Example sentences of "but [adv] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But only if the franchise director decides that there is not a viable bid from the private sector or from B R management . |
| 32 | It has power to secure the provision of advice , assistance or representation by entering contracts , but only if the Lord Chancellor directs . |
| 33 | In the weaving shop , for example , prisoners were paid three rupees each day , but only if the group completed thirty yards of woven sheeting . |
| 34 | Company secretary Stanley Beller said a consortium had agreed to buy into Barnet , but only if the League temporarily returns £91,000 withheld from the club since April . |
| 35 | Company secretary Stanley Beller said that a consortium had agreed to buy into Barnet , but only if the League temporarily returns £91,000 withheld from the club since April . |
| 36 | Guillaume believed in Modigliani 's gift and felt convinced that the price of his work would appreciate , but only if the painter was allowed to develop in peace . |
| 37 | The only help now offered is a cold-weather payment of £6 a week — but only if the temperature is an average zero degrees for seven consecutive days . |
| 38 | By July he hoped to be able to meet Butcher at Cheam , a property where the fourth Duke had spent his early married life ; but only if the weather proved favourable , ‘ for I have had the Rheumatism so bad of late , as to make me fearful of riding in the wet ’ . |
| 39 | HIV is found in the blood and semen or vaginal fluid or a person with HIV or AIDS in sufficient quantity to infect another person , but only if the virus within these body fluids enters the bloodstream of the other person . |
| 40 | The announcement of the bride 's sister 's engagement would be acceptable , but only if the bride herself knows in advance and gladly agrees to the public announcement being made at her wedding . |
| 41 | Some interesting and useful things can be done in the way of improving specific item search systems , but only if the catalogue has considerable " knowledge " of bibliographical items ( for example , one can envisage a catalogue which could say , " We have n't got Joseph Matthews on online catalogue screen displays , but there is an article in Library trends which might be of some interest " ) . |
| 42 | The answer might be ‘ Yes ’ — but only if the market research has shown that a lot of people in the area would buy fish and chips . |
| 43 | In 1974 Joël Scherk from Paris and John Schwarz from the California Institute of Technology published a paper in which they showed that string theory could describe the gravitational force , but only if the tension in the string were very much higher , about a thousand million million million million million million tons ( 1 with thirty-nine zeros after it ) . |
| 44 | In Allied Dunbar ( Frank Weisinger ) Ltd v Frank Weisinger [ 1988 ] IRLR 60 Millett J when discussing a clause which prevented soliciting ( but not dealing ) appeared to give judicial approval to the defendant 's understanding that the clause prevented him approaching a client on a secret or confidential basis and telling him that " he can still advise him but only if the client makes the approach " . |
| 45 | Following the safety line up to your guide boat seems to be the best possibility , but only if the line has not been cut on the sharp edges of the ice , or if the boat tender has not had to release the safety line to keep his boat from being capsized or dragged under the iceberg . |
| 46 | It was a good trick , but only if the victim did n't know how it worked . |
| 47 | Yes , we can , but only if the team adopts a positive attitude like that refreshingly displayed against Germany in last year 's friendly . |
| 48 | If the projected image is a still one , the illusion of movement may be counteracted by the lack of parallax , as mentioned before , but only if the background appears fairly near and with strongly marked perspective . |
| 49 | The courts do not , of course , monitor management on their own initiative , but only when an issue is brought before them by a suitably qualified plaintiff . |
| 50 | One class , the X-cells , responds in a sustained way to effective stimuli but only when an edge is located in the correct part of the receptive field . |
| 51 | The president , Cory Aquino , confirmed weeks of rumour on March 21st when she said that the ban on Mrs Marcos would be lifted so that she could go on trial in Manila , but only when the government had decided what to charge her with . |
| 52 | The weakness of this is that it fails to view the implications of the spending when it makes its impact but only when the spending actually takes place . |
| 53 | Just just think about that and just use that graph there If you wanted to work out the angle there , the tan of the angle would be that over that , but only when the scale is the same on both axes . |
| 54 | Experience is learning , but only when the reality of experience is acknowledged and valued . |
| 55 | There were whiffs of controversy in the air as the obsequies were dealt with , but only because a couple of the reporters interrogated retiring manager Micky Stewart over possible suspicion of Pakistan ball-tampering . |
| 56 | In the event there was no recovery , but only because the judge found that the auditors ' negligence had not caused the plaintiff 's loss . |
| 57 | The 1859 committee was dissolved a year later , but only because the government had decided to treat the press with greater subtlety . |
| 58 | The company came a long way in the 1980s , but only because the leopard changed its spots by making the transition from selection to search . |
| 59 | stated that if the Minister were acting administratively natural justice would not apply , that the Minister was in fact acting quasi-judicially but only because the situation was ‘ triangular ’ in that the Minister was deciding a lis inter partes between the local authority and objectors . |
| 60 | But , yes , I do use Pedulla basses , but only because the neck is comfortable for me . |