Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [modal v] not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Tell me what you truly wish to do , Sara , " he said gently , " and if you sincerely desire to sail to Portugal and be married , then I 'll not be standing in your way . " |
| 2 | Then you would not be talking to me like a business client with whom you have experienced an unfortunate misunderstanding . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Then you can not be producing enough , ’ Mr Stevens said . |
| 4 | If you are convinced that there is nothing after this earthly life and that death is the ultimate finality , then you can not be crying for the one who has died for he can not now be suffering in any way at all . |
| 5 | Obviously if we were in a contracting sector then we would not be doing so well . |
| 6 | ‘ Where there is no vision the people perish ’ — if there are not clear internal channels of communication , and we are not able to talk coherently among ourselves , then we will not be heard and understood outside the Town Hall ; |
| 7 | Er , so that 's okay to an extent , but obviously we 've got an approved list of building societies and banks , which we never used to have , but we 've realized that er since B C C I p particularly and the housing market as bad as it is , there are some building societies and banks who may be in difficulties , and if they go down erm then they may not be taken over . |
| 8 | Sometimes better ( > ) for passive motion ; they want to be carried the whole time but even then they may not be quietened for long and will demand to be carried by someone else . |
| 9 | This person will be strongly encouraged to attend the training course on recruitment ( if they are unwilling then they should not be doing the job ) . |
| 10 | If news bore little or no relation to a person 's experience , then it might not be remembered . |
| 11 | Yet he insists that if the arts are a necessary element in culture and if culture is essential to develop a people 's highest spiritual capacities , then it must not be forgotten that without religion no culture can exist . |
| 12 | If , as indicated above , there are paramount safety and environmental reasons for addressing the traffic problem in residential areas , then it should not be forgotten that there are social arguments too . |
| 13 | If this interpretation of the function is correct , that is , if is in reality a disequilibrium adjustment mechanism , then it can not be treated at one and the same time as a trade off relation . |
| 14 | If a country does not have control over its tax and expenditure , then it can not be said to have control over anything , since everything comes down to money in the end . |
| 15 | Expressed differently , if a thing exists genuinely in se ( i.e. if it is a true substance ) , then a description of its defining features can not involve references to anything outside that thing ; by the same token , if what purports to be a description of a substance involves references to different substances , then it can not be regarded as a genuine description of any substance . |
| 16 | They can be basted more easily directly along the front edge of the board with steel tacks , provided the tacks are covered with braid , but then it can not be removed . |
| 17 | Union observers believe that unless Dagenham can be transformed by 1994 into an efficient , viable plant then it will not be selected for another new model . |
| 18 | Your time is much more limited than it would be in a real case , and you can not afford to waste it ; on the other hand , it is no use gabbling what you have to say , for then it will not be understood . |
| 19 | ( 1 ) ( a ) If on the pre-trial review the district judge has ordered that the hearing be adjourned generally and certificates of readiness ( with an estimate of length of hearing ) be lodged by all parties before the matter is set down , then it will not be regarded as practicable by the court to fix a date of hearing until the certificates or readiness are in fact provided . |
| 20 | Should a higher form of awareness decide to tip the balance here or there ( perhaps by embryo implantation ) or put it on ice ( as in frozen embryos ) so that knowledge can be gained which will enable future embryos to prosper healthily , then it will not be acting contrary to what Nature itself does by trial and error and evolution . |
| 21 | Mr McCormick submitted that if any one of the mother 's reasons was possibly valid then it could not be said that the mother 's refusal to consent was outside the reasonable band . |
| 22 | It was always thought that if an investor ( or purchaser ) completed an agreement knowing that some of the warranties were untrue and that fact had not been disclosed , then he would not be prevented from bringing an action for breach of warranty , though the equitable remedy of rescission for misrepresentation would not be available as the investor could not satisfy the requirement to come to equity with clean hands . |
| 23 | And should Mr Moon ever be encountered by chance in his wife 's company then he could not be acknowledged either , other than by a glance of mild regret when no one was looking . |
| 24 | If it is accepted , as I argue , that a judge , when sitting in his court , is frequently required to make decisions which involve an assessment of where the public interest lies and so to make a political decision , then he can not be said to act neutrally , although he may still be the person best suited to make that particular decision . |
| 25 | If A knows in advance that B ca n't come , then he is being deceptive ; but if he knows that B knows that he knows that B ca n't come , then he can not be interpreted as requesting at all ( utterance ( i ) might then be a joke , or if B is in an incapacitated ( say , inebriated ) state , perhaps a gibe ) . |
| 26 | The old zeks say that if a man has a nightmare then he should not be disturbed because the awakened life of the camps is more awful than the pain of any dream . |