Example sentences of "only when " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 2 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 3 | The problem is usually discovered only when the threads of the device can not be detected in the vagina . |
| 4 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |
| 5 | For only when one is able to discriminate between what must be discarded and what still remains as valuable for the future will one also be able to decide whether one is ready to strike out in the new direction consciously and positively . |
| 6 | But only when I really want to . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Went by without Lucy , each dark and light portion of time acquired a date and name only when they met . |
| 9 | She drank automatically when It was over , noticed only when her glass was empty and did n't let it stay that way long . |
| 10 | Use kicks only when you are well outside punching range |
| 11 | It therefore makes sense to use kicks judiciously only when there is a clear opening and the opponent is not expecting a kick . |
| 12 | Preferably , you should use the front kick only when you have first moved out of line and the opponent is unable to respond powerfully . |
| 13 | Only when that has been explained might the Weber-Fechner Law and the Muller doctrine — connecting the quantity and modality of energy with the quantity and modality of sensation — have any explanatory value . |
| 14 | The meanings of morse are borrowed from the meanings of , say , English and messages encoded in it are meaningful only when they are interpreted , that is , decoded . |
| 15 | ‘ Play offensively only when you are inside the service line . |
| 16 | But it became clear that the passenger was not automatically right : only when he paid up ! |
| 17 | Fokine said that every ‘ phrase of his dance was a gesture ’ , and explained : ‘ Undoubtedly an arabesque has many meanings but only when it appears as an idealised gesture . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There is an approximate parallel in the history of religion : precise theological definitions of doctrine are called for only when doubters and heretics enter the picture . |
| 20 | For Norris the provocative sloganistic phrases by which Derrida is best known will make true sense only when restored to the contexts from which they have been taken . |
| 21 | Praise was never given to an individual child but only when the entire class did well . |
| 22 | We can observe that she is happy only when she is furious , and do not need to have it suggested that her earlier nickname of ‘ Thatcher Milk-Snatcher ’ derived from her own breast-deprivation , which denies her all happiness and allows her ‘ only the sadistic triumphs of tawdry political and military victories . ’ |
| 23 | The baby Citroen tends to give the game away only when started from cold . |
| 24 | The script kept sending out these little signals ( 'It 's only when there 's land around that sea travel becomes really interesting' ) but it was possible to take them as evidence not of exhaustion but of apprehension about the project . |
| 25 | Only when the inevitable standing ovation was over , and their work was done in the conference hall , could they relax . |
| 26 | It finished ( as a bowler ) the former Derbyshire player , Fred Swarbrook , who gave up the unequal struggle when , peering frantically around to see where a delivery had gone , he found out only when the ball dropped out of the stratosphere and hit him on top of the head . |
| 27 | How long she had been there , we could not be sure , for if she sat with head and tail aligned along the wall , she was invisible from below , and only when she turned sideways did she come into view . |
| 28 | Runs are routinely groomed to standards that you find in Europe only when fundamental snow conditions are near perfection . |
| 29 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 30 | They are free only when they are electing members of parliament . |