Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb mod] not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is just one thing I want to ask , then I wo n't refer to the past again . ’ |
| 2 | Then I wo n't have to be a kept man . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a positive thing , but then I would n't go to a Vets race that was n't in some way useful to me . |
| 4 | ‘ It was so dark I could hardly see where to put my cross on the voting slip — and then I could n't get to the ballot box which was situated in a poky little office . |
| 5 | then you ca n't afford to not have your dole money , cos your dole money |
| 6 | The government does have a choice if it did n't want us to live like this then we would n't have to . |
| 7 | If they both were of the same logical type , then we could not hope to be able to clarify the distinction between numerical and species identity and the possibility of order in space or time . |
| 8 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 9 | Well then they wo n't talk to me they wo n't take any notice anyway , if they do , I 've got a letter I can tell them what I 'm doing . |
| 10 | If those devils can wring the necks of chickens and slit the throats of sheep , then they should n't object to some shot , should they ? ’ |
| 11 | If patients wish to be treated ‘ as human beings ’ and not simply as bodies to be mended or diseases to be cured , then they can not object to the social nature of their humanity being scrutinised and its relevance to therapy assessed . |
| 12 | None of this may be objectively true — alternative , better , jobs simply may not exist even when there is not a high level of unemployment — but to the extent that individual workers believe the dominant achievement ideology in society then they will not wish to ‘ confess failure ’ by admitting that they do not enjoy an adequate level of job satisfaction . |
| 13 | And then it would n't occur to her that after what had happened , he would have the nerve to go under his own steam . |
| 14 | Since it is admitted , or rather insisted , that as far as you are concerned there could be no difference between the hypothesis that you are currently sitting reading and the hypothesis that you are a brain in a vat being fed the experiences of one sitting reading , then it can not matter to you which is really true and which is false . |
| 15 | Then he wo n't come to Salisbury any more . |
| 16 | Unless a player is totally without imagination , then he can not fail to be aware of what has gone before as he makes his pilgrimage round Augusta . |