Example sentences of "would [verb] only [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions about the reasonableness of the amount charged would arise only if the concept was part of that contract . |
| 2 | Veljko Kadijevic on Sept. 12 rejected an order from Mesic ( the nominal commander of the JNA ) to withdraw troops to barracks within 48 hours and reiterated that the JNA would act only if ordered by the Presidency as a whole . |
| 3 | But of Callanish itself , which Creggan most wanted to know about , she hat refused to speak , saying that the time was not right and she would speak only when it was . |
| 4 | There was other evidence that , with a moderate ( 2 to 3 per cent ) rate of economic growth , the demographic trends would not impose pressures on the public purse until 2020 and a crisis would occur only if the economy failed to grow by 2 per cent or more . |
| 5 | The hard look doctrine therefore represents a shift from a previously more minimal standard of review , where judicial intervention would occur only if there was irrationality , to one where the courts will interfere where the broader list of defects set out above are present . |
| 6 | The hints would work only if they were true both in fact and in fiction . |
| 7 | We believe , however , that significant globally averaged temperature change would ensue only if additional feedbacks from slowly responding elements of the climate system altered the global mean radiative forcing . |
| 8 | Bush dismissed the move as an attempt by the Iraqi leader to regroup his overwhelmed forces , and stated that the allies would continue to press the ground war " with undiminished intensity " , emphasising that the fighting would stop only if Iraqi forces " lay down their arms " . |
| 9 | King Charles I visited the community in 1633 and afterwards borrowed its Great Concordance of the Gospels , which he said he would return only if another were made for him . |
| 10 | The UN made it clear that the operation would resume only if Serb forces stopped the artillery barrage on the town , which is packed with 60,000 more wounded , starving or sick people . |
| 11 | It is the sort of thing which would happen only if the person was in some unusual condition , such as a fever . |
| 12 | Like Gauss he would publish only when he was convinced that he had not only mastered the subject but had thoroughly understood all its ramifications . |
| 13 | As an acquaintance put it , ‘ Richard would apply only if the university did something it has n't done for 500 hundred years — say it 's sorry . ’ |
| 14 | It is probable that this exception would apply only where there is a state of affairs which would make it unsafe to use the vehicle immediately . |
| 15 | However , the natives , who had known yasak , or alman , before the Russians arrived on the scene , and regarded it as a payment by a vanquished people to its conqueror , in the time-honoured manner would pay only as long as it suited them . |
| 16 | The trucks would leave only after the train had arrived . |
| 17 | He said he would come only if arrested . |
| 18 | It emerged yesterday that officials of COSLA have already told the Scottish Office that it considers the break-even point on costings would come only if the number of new councils was limited to just over 20 and not at 43 as suggested by Touche Ross . |
| 19 | Until recently , it was assumed that the section would operate only where the pursuer had a specific Conclusion in his Summons seeking provisional damages , but a recent opinion of Lord McCluskey is to the effect that the pursuer can make an application that his case be treated as one seeking provisional damages at any stage during the case . |
| 20 | The idea seems to have been that this bombing would last only until the Bosnian government had the armaments it wanted to fight its own war . |
| 21 | Such an alliance was unacceptable to a number of DYP deputies and to the SHP ; the RP had said that it would co-operate only if an Islamic leader was first agreed on to replace Özal . |
| 22 | At a meeting with the consortium more than a week ago , Caledonian directors said they would help only if they were given a controlling interest in the pit . |
| 23 | Many fewer lawsuits would be started because a plaintiff would sue only if he had a clear right to win , in which case the prospective defendant would never defend but would pay instead . |