Example sentences of "then it would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Complaining that the grass-roots party cadres had been excluded from decision-making , the Peking Daily called for new emphasis on the party 's role in economic as well as political matters : ‘ If the party only controls the party then it would no longer be a political class party but an amateur group for the masses , or a kind of club . ’ |
| 2 | If the continuing ritual represents a progressive pruning away of the trappings of mythology , then it would follow that no one has clipped the lion 's wings or fleaed his rump or pared his claws since all these things , like classical-cum-Shakespearian mythology , are the ritual entrappings of the culture from which our own is descended , preserved among us as ‘ survivals ’ . |
| 3 | If , as Engels assumes in The Origin , primitive societies contained no inequality , then it would follow , according to Marxist thought , that a different , simpler theory of history would apply for these societies . |
| 4 | Then it would have been twenty-five metres of snow slide and a final trip down a thirty-metre vertical chasm into a mix of ice and ice-cold water . |
| 5 | The Ombudsman found that the DTI committed errors in its advice to Barlow Clowes back in 1976 and if it had applied for a licence then it would not have been granted one . |
| 6 | Barlow Clowes investors to receive £150m compensation continued from page one had properly investigated an obscure Jersey partnership which had been licensed then it would have established a link between it and Barlow Clowes . |
| 7 | But if people move on , it 's understandable , in the event that everyone moves on , and I 'm left dangling in the recording studio — then it would seem to confirm everything I 've ever thought about the cruelties of life . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It would take at least $1 billion to start a studio from scratch ’ , reckons one mogul who adds that ‘ even then it would need a lot of luck . ’ |
| 9 | Then it would be right . ’ |
| 10 | The court seemed to be afraid that if it allowed the jury to take account of one characteristic , such as sexual impotence , then it would be illogical to direct them not to take account of another characteristic , such as irascibility or bad temper . |
| 11 | But it is clear that if , as we have said , death from suicide is relatively common in Britain and most funeral services take place within the Christian context , then it would seem that the church needs to look at this whole subject again with a great deal more openness than has been possible up to now . |
| 12 | It would be in the nature of a test for her : if , as she claimed , she looked after her nephew as her own then she would not query the lack of financial support ; if she asked for it then it would be easier to force her to part with the boy . |
| 13 | Indeed it could be argued that if there were nothing to count against it then it would no longer be faith ! |
| 14 | If ‘ transcendent ’ meant ‘ spatially removed ’ from us , and ‘ immanent ’ meant ‘ spatially present ’ among us , then it would be an obvious contradiction to say that God was both transcendent and immanent . |
| 15 | If this is true then it would be the supreme irony that the CIA were being fed with their own information . |
| 16 | If your gearbox became faulty , however , then it would probably be worth doing . |
| 17 | If it had been ‘ five ’ then it would have been rhd . |
| 18 | then it would now be illegal with the addition of larger tyres ( assuming , of course , that the speedo was accurate in the first place ) . |
| 19 | Then it would be her lunchtime , and probably another feed , and after that they 'd send her for her afternoon rest , and then collect the specimens and the data from him for the next day 's test session . |
| 20 | This was that if we did n't take part in the inquiry , then it would be easy for the pro-nuclear lobby to accuse us of ignoring democracy , throwing up the chance to have our say , implying that our case was too weak to risk exposure . |
| 21 | If you have produced a promotional video which includes footage of the children and staff at work and emphasises the strengths of the school then it would be well worth showing it at this meeting . |
| 22 | Then it would be possible to set matters right and return to the correct position of Clause 9 . |
| 23 | ‘ If Czechoslovakia could persuade its utilities to buy efficient light bulbs , ’ Chandler says , ‘ then it would be worth building a factory to manufacture them . ’ |
| 24 | But then it would go back to the usual music , the old pictures would go up again and it would be back to the black paintwork . |
| 25 | Boy thought he would like to see the city under heavy snow ; then it would look like a real map , all in black and white , the river a thick black ribbon , or , if frozen as he knew it had once been , a clean white ribbon , the only space in the city without streets , names , lights or indeed owners . |
| 26 | Besides , if Maidstone could predict so accurately when Elsie would appear then it would be a simple matter to find her again — perhaps at the same time tomorrow . |
| 27 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
| 28 | If we ignore the business , then it would be a case of the law of the jungle taking over . ’ |
| 29 | But if this new development were to be simply an aid to better assignments and projects then it would not be remarkable , because library instruction which is project-related and project-inspired , is not unusual , though it is less common than the separate library lesson . |
| 30 | Jargon is technical language that has become vernacular and , similarly , it is not intrinsically bad ; if technical language were not vernacular to those who need to use it , then it would actually serve very little purpose . |