Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [modal v] [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.

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31 Before fifteen days are over , if it please God , those tambours shall be laid before you , and shall be sounded for your pleasure , and then they shall be given to the Bishop Don Hieronymo , that he may hang them up in the Church of St. Mary , Mother of God .
32 If these factors are favourable , then they should be stressed to the inspector .
33 They could deliver a truce , they would deliver a truce , and then they should be spoken to .
34 John Parry , managing director of developer Hammerson , was reported as saying : ‘ If a landlord or tenant wants a deal to be confidential , then they should be allowed to .
35 If the cost of books is reimbursed by the Department then they must be returned to Sylvia Middlemiss on completion of your course , otherwise the cost will be recovered by the Department .
36 There they will be treated to displays of close manoeuvring by the Task Group , Royal Marines rapid roping teams in action and an aerial display by Sea Harrier , Sea King and Lynx Aircraft .
37 If it 's a small discharge and say it 's twice the limits , three times the limits , then it would be considered to be needing improvement .
38 If a proposed merger is likely to lead to the merged firms having a market share greater than one quarter or alternatively involves assets in excess of £30 million , then it may be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission .
39 Conversely , if sign language is universally understood , then it must be limited to concrete and picturable concepts .
40 8.8 If any sub-clause of this clause 8 is held to be invalid or unenforceable under any applicable statute or rule of law then it should be deemed to be omitted and if as a result either party becomes liable for loss or damage which would otherwise have been excluded then such liability shall be subject to the remaining sub-clauses of this clause 8 .
41 And , let it be noted , if 1920 marked the high tide of Bukharin 's leftism , then it can be said to be equally true of the Bolsheviks as a whole , Lenin included .
42 Of course , as recognized by the judge in the above case , if the structure is dictated by function then it can be said to be an uncopyrightable idea although , often that will not be so ; there will be a variety of potential structures possible .
43 If this abbreviated plan is convincing , then it can be refined to a more nearly faithful one .
44 Then it can be relayed to listeners . ’
45 In fact , when the sex act takes place only when progeny is desired then it can be referred to as married brahmacārya .
46 Then it can be confined to a raised pool without offending the eye .
47 We can place some detecting devices , photographic plates or Geiger counters , say , which will register whether the electron has arrived at A or B. If we analyse such an experiment what we obtain is a chain of correlations : if the electron 's spin is " up " , then it will be deflected to A , and then the Geiger counter at A will click or if the electrons spin is " down " , then it will be deflected to B , and then the Geiger counter at B will click .
48 We can place some detecting devices , photographic plates or Geiger counters , say , which will register whether the electron has arrived at A or B. If we analyse such an experiment what we obtain is a chain of correlations : if the electron 's spin is " up " , then it will be deflected to A , and then the Geiger counter at A will click or if the electrons spin is " down " , then it will be deflected to B , and then the Geiger counter at B will click .
49 Initially it 'll be connected to existing mainframes .
50 once the spawning is complete the female must get out of the male 's way and should be removed from the breeding tank , otherwise she may be harried to the point of being killed .
51 In addition to vigilance we need education in the responsible uses of this new extension of man 's powers , otherwise we might be driven to a fruitless Luddite destruction of computers because they seem able to take on a life of their own .
52 However , arithmetic can not be done on these byte strings as they stand ; instead they must be converted to a different string data-type , known as packed decimal .
53 5.5 This conclusion will actually exclude the great majority of verbs ( or , more exactly , all normal uses of the great majority of verbs ) from appearing in construction with an adverbal adjective at all , with or without the claimed nuance ; either they will be related to their object in such a way that there is simply no need to mention any particular property of the latter entity , as in ( 30 ) ; or , even if there is some property of the object specially relevant to the notion introduced in the verb , that property does not belong to the object by virtue of the relationship between the verb and the object ; for instance , even if Angela in ( 31 ) resembles her cousin in that they are both dark , her cousin does not have that property because Angela resembles her , and even if the Prince admired his Chief Justice because of his disposition to clemency it is not the the Prince 's admiration that justifies the applicability of the property merciful .
54 Yet they can be shown to be in some sense the implicit guardians of morality .
55 This is the technique of flash photolysis , and again it can be applied to gaseous or to liquid samples .
56 Occasionally we would be treated to performances by visiting groups who had actually broadcast on the wireless , such as the Bainbridge Brothers , Lance and Jack , and the Swaledale Singers , who sang a varied programme of real life and beauty but created something of a problem with their final number .
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