Example sentences of "only when they have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus they treated innovation with extreme caution , and employed advanced technology only when they had satisfied themselves that it could be incorporated without visible effect into their style of living . |
| 2 | Only when they had gained experience of the re-heat sets at Dunston ( in 1952 ) did they concede its flexibility , and re-heat became standard in their new stations from then onwards . |
| 3 | For others , however , it will be plain that they made their asylum claim to extend their stay here only when they had failed to prolong it by other means . |
| 4 | The first part dealt with unmixed foil and stated that ownership in the foil would transfer to the buyers only when they had paid all that was owing to the sellers . |
| 5 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 6 | Such students are strongly advised to come to Edinburgh on their own , in the first instance , and to send for their husbands or wives and families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 7 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 8 | Only when they have examined what hands , arms , legs and feet , body and above all the head can do in isolation and then in harmony with the story , theme or music , can they set out and create a style which will be general in structure and particular in texture , with the right quality , mood , emotion , action and character . |
| 9 | In contrast to the administrative procedures operating before 1986 , the Act authorizes warrants to be granted for preventing as well as detecting crime , thereby compromising the important question of principle identified by Dicey that ‘ preventive measures are inconsistent with the pervading principle of English law , that men are to be interfered with or punished , not because they may or will break the law , but only when they have committed some definite assignable legal offence ’ ( Dicey , 1959 : 249 ) . |