Example sentences of "then there would be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If we flew a perfect mission every trip then there would be no need to train , but then in a perfect world we would not need an Army and I would be out of a job . |
| 2 | Then there would be the family holiday to save him . |
| 3 | The troubles of the spirit are not always translated into the grosser medium of the flesh , but if I could not make this transfer with Miller then there would be no point in making him ill in the first place . |
| 4 | Then there would be silence , but from time to time I should receive a ‘ chit ’ from regimental HQ to say that all was well . |
| 5 | If ‘ suicide ’ is defined as the doing of a positive act with the intention of ending life , then there would be no question of suicide in the case of patients who refuse treatment , but otherwise do no positive act , merely allowing death to occur . |
| 6 | But then there would be the scandal to hide from . |
| 7 | At least then there would be a reason . |
| 8 | Then there would be more tedious interviews , probably with women . |
| 9 | If this had happened , and if one could state confidently that the Parliament of England had survived these events , albeit in an altered state , whereas the parliaments first , of Scotland , and later , of Ireland , had disappeared from the scene , then there would be some warrant for assuming that the law , customs , conventions and powers of the Parliament of England had survived , whereas those of the others had not . |
| 10 | In addition , there were fears that , if undertakings made during a takeover bid could be put aside subsequently , then there would be calls to replace the present takeover system , based to a great extent on a voluntary code of conduct and self-regulation , by a statutory system . |
| 11 | If , for example , the module were for Computer Science students then there would be a concentration on text processing , database publishing and communications . |
| 12 | Every now and then there would be a rogue stitch , that is , black when it should be white and vice versa . |
| 13 | I 'd get her settled and then there would be some distraction and she 'd start jumping around , or ‘ bating ’ as falconers call it . |
| 14 | If word of the DUS 's discomfort reached beyond his office then there would be a titter around Century House , from Library in the basement to Administration on the Tenth . |
| 15 | If the grains , soy beans and fishmeal , which are used in the feeding of food animals in the developed world , were consumed directly by human beings then there would be something like a ninefold gain in the nutritional spin-off . |
| 16 | If a biologically grounded disposition showed up simply in the form of what human beings could not or would not do , then there would be no real problem of alternative behaviours . |
| 17 | If Duncan failed , then there would be no blame attached to the department . |
| 18 | For Mrs Whitehouse it seemed that the Church was under a concerted attack and that , if it was not vigorously defended , then there would be nothing to prevent ‘ the tide of permissiveness ’ or the advance of the ‘ new morality ’ . |
| 19 | Firstly , he points to the recommendations contained in the Wolfenden Report and argues that if society were not able to pronounce homosexuality morally wrong , then there would be no basis for a law which aims to protect youth from ‘ corruption ’ , or for punishing men who live off the earnings of a homosexual prostitute . |
| 20 | Further , it was hoped that if nothing happened during the trial which newspapers could turn into titillating copy for their readers , then there would be less incentive for the papers to give widespread coverage . |
| 21 | However , if preferences are understood merely as patterns of physical behaviour which tend towards certain results , then there would be no more moral reason for satisfying them than for assisting a computer carry out its programme when this was something undesired by any conscious being . |
| 22 | It is only through difference , by which the same becomes other and produces a tissue of differences , that history could ever take place : for if full presence were possible , then there would be no difference , and therefore no time , space — or history . |
| 23 | If people were socialized without a compulsory and compulsive sex morality , and learned to enjoy genital sexuality , then there would be no hostile behaviour . |
| 24 | Were it to be that Christian orthodoxy were that a man , Jesus of Nazareth , was God ( or we may say ‘ a god ’ ) , then there would be no hope that Christianity and feminism could be reconciled . |
| 25 | Then there would be a requisition , like the time when the Supplies Team got bold of 100,000 eggs and that was great . |
| 26 | if common sense had not been so uniquely transformed , then there would be little reason to formulate this new , specific concept of social representation . |
| 27 | But just as speakers attach great importance to variation in the structural parts of language , so they must also attach great importance to change : if they did not , then there would be no reason why changes like this one should be accepted in speech communities . |
| 28 | If the division of labour within the enterprise were as ( tendentially ) uniform as Marx and Braverman suppose then there would be little problem in specifying this ‘ division by strata ’ : it would simply be the paradigmatic division within the enterprise ( mass of simple labour , restricted cadre of intellectual workers and N.C.O.s ) writ large . |
| 29 | If there is a change in the party in power and the new Cabinet feels that their senior civil servants are personally attached to the policies of the previous Cabinet , then there would be a serious breakdown in confidence . |
| 30 | They would carve the world up into principalities and then there would be war again . |