Example sentences of "then we [modal v] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could go down and then , that way , and then we 'll all go to this way , and then join it up again . |
| 2 | The government does have a choice if it did n't want us to live like this then we would n't have to . |
| 3 | According to David Trippier , the British Enviroment Minister , if developing countries increased their per capita use of ozone depleting chemicals to just one tenth of the 1986 consumption rate in industrialised economies , and used them indefinitely : ‘ Then we would never return to the levels needed for us to get rid of ozone holes , even if the rest of the world stopped using them althogether . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |