Example sentences of "[modal v] then [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other disadvantage has to be that your ferret must then be a line ferret , and it then suffers the disadvantage of having to pull an obstruction , albeit a small one , around any snag that exists within the burrow . |
| 2 | Now that 's not every word , this is what happens when you start doing the apostrophe , that , there 'll then be a spate of whenever you see a word ending in s , ah , word ending in s , use an apostrophe , regardless of whether you should use one or not , now you are a lovely think about it . |
| 3 | It may be fortuitous that if we spend this morning discussing criteria , there 'll then be a gap of one and a half working days for those who do n't have to travel far to consider possible answers to the second stream of the dialogue . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Sweetcorn , chickpeas or maples may well be the going bait and it could then be an advantage to fish a couple of very large jumbo tiger nuts of half a brazil nut over the top of the baited area . |
| 6 | Examples of good practice thus produced could then be an ingredient in a rolling programme of motivation and expansion in school library provision . |
| 7 | The preservation of beach gravel would then be a question of its accidental occurrence in some specially favourable situation not subject to glacial or periglacial action . |
| 8 | The Shias of the south , the Sunnis of Sidon and Tripoli , would not only oppose such a state , but produce more children than the Maronites , who would then be a minority in the country they had created . |
| 9 | The application of community sanctions would remain at the discretion of sentencers , though there would then be a price to be paid in terms of consistency of application . |
| 10 | And there would then be a discussion section session . |
| 11 | But , of course , Mr Major is no snarler , and , as he said to me , he thought he was tough enough already and he was n't going to change because he would then be a phoney . |
| 12 | There would then be a contest between the only two Tories whose stature has risen in the present dismal campaign , Michael Heseltine and Kenneth Clarke . |
| 13 | Windley intended that the first camp should be started just before the next batch of moran formed their manyattas , so that those who passed through it would then be an influence for good on their fellows . |
| 14 | In fact , if we were to set r=0 , the price cost margins would be exactly equivalent to those obtained from the Ramsey optimal pricing problem , precisely because the problem would then be an example of the Ramsey problem . |
| 15 | If it comes across any orifices , holes , crypts , or glands , it will , however , gladly occupy these , and there may then be a degree of tissue destruction . |
| 16 | In others , it will come as something of a surprise , and there may then be a need for the child to undergo further diagnostic tests to establish the extent of the problem . |
| 17 | There may then be a need to find targets to blame . |
| 18 | There may then be a break of a few days while participants work to devise a training session . |
| 19 | There will then be a day 's walk in the local area before returning to Soll and your hotel . |
| 20 | I suggested initially that a quiet revolution was taking place in the study of writing , so perhaps it will then be a disappointment at the end of the chapter to stress that there are no easy solutions to questions of classroom practice . |
| 21 | But this is not acceptable either , because there will then be a danger of projecting the norms of standard or ‘ mainstream ’ varieties on to the dialect ( imposing them from above , as it were ) , and this will result in a distorted account of patterns observed within the community , which may bear no direct relation to these other varieties . |
| 22 | There will then be a wait while the various samples are examined under the microscope , and finally the results will be given by the doctor , and treatment prescribed as necessary . |
| 23 | There will then be an outbreak of peace until I refuse to get involved in an arranged marriage . ’ |
| 24 | There can then be a race or , better , a ‘ follow my leader ’ type programme . |