Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean , then I was bound to be very bored , except |
| 2 | From the moment I could understand the human voice 1 — and I expect most of my generation — was told to be ‘ seen and not heard ’ … ‘ consider others before yourself ’ … ‘ never complain' and if you were a boy child , then you were exhorted to be a man , to show no emotion , and not to be a sissy . |
| 3 | ‘ Then she was asked to be the local carnival queen . |
| 4 | Ah I mean they will soften anyway and they are comfortable it 's just that the sides are a bit rigid at the moment but then they 're bound to be and they will give . |
| 5 | If ever they lose the ability to scavenge energy , and put it to use in repairing their own fabric , then they are said to be dead ; and they begin immediately to fall apart . |
| 6 | There 's none of the rigorous logic and choreographed confusion of real farce , and director Jude Kelly labours under the mistaken impression that if the characters rush around and shout a lot , then they are bound to be funny . |
| 7 | They were hailed in the media as breakthroughs — and then they were shown to be wrong either by their own authors or by others . |
| 8 | If the word is not found then it is said to be misspelled , so either correction is attempted , or it is returned to the user for verification . |
| 9 | There is a tendency to look upon literature , particularly capital L ‘ Literature ’ , as something separate from life , but once literature is thought of in terms of story-telling and story-making , then it is seen to be part of a common and seemingly-essential human activity . |
| 10 | If perception has to be triggered off by what is actually there , then it is constrained to be true . |
| 11 | If the plant does not grow above the water surface , then it is known to be in the ‘ submerse ’ condition . |
| 12 | Maybe , but then it 's allowed to be . |
| 13 | Then it was meant to be Detroit , Chicago , St Louis and work its way west and end in Los Angeles but word of mouth , the cover story in Rolling Stone which Tony coerced out of them , and various other things created such a sensation that they lengthened it . |