Sentence examples for only then to be from inspiring English sources

Other ideas she promises to take on board, only then to be hounded when they're not implemented fast enough.

It was not until 1925 that some sort of order was restored – only then to be swept aside by the Great Depression and the Nazis.

When Toledo accidentally steps on Levee's new shoes — those totems of mobility and promise — Levee stabs him in the back, only then to be haunted by Toledo's vision.

And then checking up on a selection of said shops to find that the magazine is still nowhere to be seen, only then to be informed that it's still "down to the discretion of individual store managers".

But there's a hint of that in Trading Places, when Billy Ray pretends to be an African exchange student on the train and, earlier, pretends to be a blind and parapalegic war veteran ("I was with the Green Berets, I was special Agent Orange"), only then to be exposed as a phoney by the police who pick him up off the ground: "I can see!

As in sales, so in all of life: Seek first to understand -- and only then to be understood.

Only then was I was allowed to return to the waiting room.

Only then were they were taken to the hospital.

It should then – and only then – be up to the Security Council to vote for or against war.

Only then will you be ready to just be.

Only then are decisions to be taken in favor of any statistical model.