Example sentences of "then we would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain questions had to be answered by Sir John and then we would return to Glastonbury Abbey . |
| 2 | If we were to dismiss ‘ third persons ’ , then we would arrive at ‘ pure socialism ’ , but at the same time all the categories and problems of the transition period would disappear . |
| 3 | On some days they seemed absent from the area and then we would detect two or three in the course of the next patrol . |
| 4 | And then we would give a complete project specification to the five participants and er we would invite them to visit a factory , to have a conversation with a sales person , to get a bit of a feeling for the style of thee of the be doing area . |
| 5 | If experimentally it is shown that there is no difference in the number of plural continuations which occur with two names and with two roles , then we would conclude that common description type ( rather than description content ) is a major force in controlling the likelihood of plural reference . |
| 6 | If the action project were succeeding in sustaining at home people who without its services would have been in an institution at an earlier date , then we would expect the action sample clients still at home at six months and 12 months to be more disadvantaged in the possession of factors likely to affect home care potential . |
| 7 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |
| 8 | If this latter is important , then we would expect the big rape cases which get a lot of media coverage to be especially important in the formation of beliefs , since they are more likely to be common currency for discussion than the smaller cases . |
| 9 | If an increase in national income is the result of an increase in the quantity of goods and services produced , then we would expect the level of employment to rise as more people are employed in the production of additional output . |
| 10 | Of course , if wealth is defined in this very broad way , then we would expect very many people to possess some ; in fact the most recent figures still show very striking inequalities in wealth distribution . |
| 11 | If we accept the ‘ cohesive mass segregation ’ argument derived from the work of Kerr and Siegel ( see above , p. 108 ) , then we would expect all isolated mining communities to be equally strike-prone . |
| 12 | If the recognition of spoken words is affected by preceding context then we would expect that this highly familiar context should be sufficient to rule out trestle and tress as possible candidates , despite their consistency with the partial word tres … . |
| 13 | If the clause is the main unit of encoding then we would expect to find that almost all clauses in the speech corpus Beattie analysed should contain pauses , particularly in initial position . |
| 14 | If organisations are pluralist in nature such that different groups and individuals can influence the decision-making process then we would expect competition between these groups who will represent different interests . |
| 15 | On the assumption that nothing happens to change the relative attractiveness of different methods of borrowing , then we would expect the stock of bills to increase over time . |
| 16 | If speculative efficiency is valid in the foreign exchange market , then we would expect to find the null hypothesis to be true . |
| 17 | So it looks as if er nature has kind of erm struck a bargain in this respect , that each parent can contribute exactly half , but I think it 's , we 're only just beginning to find out about what happens then and my guess is about internal conflict between genes because I strongly suspect that there must be a lot of that going on because , as I think you 've rightly seen , if we take this view of evolution as selecting for individual genes , then we would expect conflict even within the gender . |
| 18 | If lithospheric extension occurs primarily along such detachment faults rather than by thinning throughout the entire zone of lithospheric extension , then we would expect opposing passive margins to display a marked complementary asymmetry ( Fig. 4.19 ) . |
| 19 | If there 's a positive relationship okay I d I mean that was just recapping something I said before so if you got it you 've probably got it down twice now Okay , if you knew that there was a positive relationship between two variables and we said that their score on one of the variables was high then we would expect , although not necessarily , because w it 's not true in every case but it i there 's a general trend , we would expect that their score on the other variable would also be high . |
| 20 | If the two sets of scores are positively correlated , then we would expect positive Z scores to occur together and similarly negative Z scores should be paired . |
| 21 | Similarly , if score A has a positive Z score then we would expect variable B to have a variable Z score . |
| 22 | Then we would go to a restaurant and Oliver would get dictatorial . |
| 23 | Mother used to come too , although she was chapel , and then we would go on to the Methodist service in the evening . |
| 24 | I thought that , if I did n't listen , soon he would stop and then we would go home and life would start again , the way it had always been before . |
| 25 | Now and then we would feed them twice this number of mice , just to vary their diet . |
| 26 | then we would prefer ( x 1 , … , x n ) to ( y 1 , … , y n ) . |
| 27 | If we used only the same newspapers then we would miss new developments which added to the range , while if we did add to the sample then we were not comparing like with like . |
| 28 | We would ride about a mile to the first field then we would draw the first field . |
| 29 | But then we would send our teams away , and they 'd come back with no better than an honourable defeat in the Test Series . |
| 30 | It is only natural that his pace has slowed and perhaps that gazelle-like mind , which was such an influence on the young George Best , may have dulled , but if I had eleven Dave Doyles in my side then we would make the Guinness Book Of Records and cause referees and opponents utter confusion . |