Example sentences of "then it [vb mod] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to put a book in first , that I was first to speak this morning , you were second and then it 'll be either Kelly Ann or Stephen next . |
| 2 | And then it 'll be on . |
| 3 | Then it 'll be just as bad up there , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 4 | I think it just came back here for the milk and then it 'll be away . |
| 5 | Then it 'll be over ? |
| 6 | Yes , er I 'm very worried about this aspect of er whose finger er on the nuclear trigger , because the nuclear referee in the Soviet Union is divided between mainly peace states , Russia , Ukraine and , now Boris Yeltsin has said that he is going to protect his Russian minorities in Ukraine and , now I fear that if that comes to some kind of a conflict then it 'll be very uncertain as to what arrangement could be made about er , honouring international agreement and about ultimately too er , any kind of nuclear er congregation . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh well , if you do n't know , Miss Alice , then it 'll be only a rumour — hearsay . ’ |
| 8 | And then , during this last summer , Nan had said , ‘ You know , one day he 'll break your jaw and then it 'll be too late . ’ |
| 9 | He said and says nothing , just that I 'll find out some day but by then it 'll be too late . |
| 10 | If black people had been separately created in Africa , and Red Indians in the Americas , and so on , then it might be as legitimate to enslave them as to enslave cattle . |
| 11 | If her father got like that , then it might be all right . |
| 12 | Then it would be over . |
| 13 | Then it would be up to him to make the next move . |
| 14 | But he was away a lot , and then it would be up to Janice . |
| 15 | If you have produced a promotional video which includes footage of the children and staff at work and emphasises the strengths of the school then it would be well worth showing it at this meeting . |
| 16 | The apprentices er did n't start before six o'clock in the morning of course they could n't start apprentice before six o'clock in the morning until he was maybe in his last year then it would be either one o'clock or two o'clock in the morning . |
| 17 | Then it would be purely a matter of waiting for the assassin 's bullet to strike home , or a carefully planned accident to take place . |
| 18 | I was going to have treatment and then it would be all right . |
| 19 | By the 1870s there were many who disbelieved and who yet ‘ retained the nobler attributes of humanity ’ ; but if the bulk of humanity lost its faith then it would be hardly possible to imagine ‘ civilised and well-ordered communities ’ surviving . |
| 20 | It was important to retain Lloyd George , not just as the man who had won the war but also as a man who could talk to the working class ; and if a revolutionary situation were to arise , then it would be far better if Unionists could call on Liberals to help resist it . |
| 21 | For example , if the words prior to dogs/clogs had been raining cats and then it would be fairly safe to say that the intended word was dogs . |
| 22 | there 's a lot of activity going on in the house , then it would be so er no point |
| 23 | It struck her — thinking of Marie Moon and Audrey Covington-Pym — that if she was going to sell herself , and it seemed she was , then it would be as well not to come too cheap . |
| 24 | Until then it would be virtually impossible to discuss anything . |
| 25 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 26 | That was n't to say she did n't like him , because she did , but then it would be very hard not to ! |
| 27 | The second point is that once established that that is open countryside under the terms of this particular policy then it would be very difficult to make a future change to that . |
| 28 | I think once that sort of phrase gets within the public domain then it would be very difficult to shift that er in the future . |
| 29 | If ergonomics was confined to , say , the determination of the physical dimensions of the work-space then it would be more readily accepted by traditional designers , but the broad claim that ergonomics has a contribution to make to every design and operational aspect which involves the behaviour of people is a proposition which it is much more difficult for an engineer or other designer to digest ( fig. 1.3 ) . |
| 30 | She argued that if the second statement in a pair contained a negative then it would be more natural for the meaning of the two statements to be different , whereas if the two statements were both affirmative it would be more natural for the two statements to have the same meaning . |