Example sentences of "then [indef pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then no-one would have been satisfied , let alone the person who is the victim in all this . |
| 2 | They feel the fighting is justified because their religion is something worth supporting and fighting for because if everybody just accepted what the other said then no-one would have the right to choose and end up with a dictatorship where one person is saying what they believe in and nobody fights back so everybody would end up having to agree . |
| 3 | If John Rhead could n't find golden eagles for us , then no-one could . |
| 4 | ‘ When I opened the letter and saw the summons , ’ Jean says , ‘ I thought , ‘ Oh , the poor devil — I 'll have to just simply pay off the money owed , and then no-one will ever have to know about this ’ . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I know , ’ Cleg 's big hand covered hers , ‘ but , for your own sake , send your cousin packing or marry him out of the way , then no-one will have room to talk . ’ |
| 6 | David Newbegin , Durham County Council director of the environment , said : ‘ If we do n't put the message across to the heavy goods drivers that they must use alternative routes , the bridge will deteriorate and then no-one will be able to use it . ’ |
| 7 | And then no-one can |
| 8 | If both parties had partaken of a meal containing that pungent rooted plant , then nothing would be amiss . |
| 9 | No I think it was just , certainly Tom tried to lift us or because over the winter months when nothing was happening negotiations-wise , you know he knew if he did n't lift us then nothing would and everyone would get so disheartened they 'd just say oh sod it and back to work or forget it and what have you . |
| 10 | Wh whilst that 's being done , can I just add that do n't feel inhibited ab I want you to make your best case , but I mean you know , if if you can make it in five minutes instead of half an hour then nothing will be lost in that . |
| 11 | If you sit at the White House in the Oval Office and give orders then nothing will happen . |
| 12 | If people are n't interested in , in evaluation of something that concerns them , then nothing will happen at the end of it . |
| 13 | If people are n't interested in an evaluation of something that concerns them , then nothing will happen at the end of it . |
| 14 | Justification by inference is conditional justification only ; A's justification is conditional upon the justification of B and C. But if all inferential justification is conditional in this sense , then nothing can be shown to be actually , non-conditionally justified . |
| 15 | But she thanked the Lord that Reverend Morey had n't become a Governor sooner , for then everyone would have known about Angel , and James 's plump and prissy wife might have discovered her husband had fathered a bastard . |
| 16 | In particular , if all assets were equally risky , then everyone would choose the one with the greatest expected payoff to holding it . |
| 17 | I told her about you , and she said to get you to write a romance into your murder , then everyone 'll read it . |
| 18 | On the other hand if marketing is seen and pursued as a facet of good communications and as a faster and better response to needs then everyone can be a winner . |
| 19 | Oh why do n't we do cos then everyone can join in . |
| 20 | If one finds out , then everyone will know and then you will be in trouble . |
| 21 | Then everyone will think I 'm some kind of spy anyway because it 's hardly going to fit in with my cover of being a moron . |
| 22 | Since the construction of these tests is on scientific principles , then everyone will accept , as some law of nature , that large numbers of children and adults are failed and excluded , and thus convinced that they can not learn anything valued by the education system . |
| 23 | If a decision has been taken about liability for emotional injury one way or the other , and there can be no controversy what decision that is , then everyone should have a right that that decision be enforced until it is publicly disavowed in the same way . |
| 24 | However if evil were merely a hateful and external power without echo in the hearts of the good , then someone might have to take the Ring to the Cracks of Doom , but it need not be Frodo : Gandalf could be trusted with it , while whoever went would have only to distrust his enemies , not his friends and not himself . |
| 25 | Remember that , if working in a large organisation , then someone might be asked to assess the DC who has no clue as to why the change is being proposed . |
| 26 | Then someone would have to wade into the mouth of the tunnel with a hooked stick to pull out the blockage so that the blood could run away freely . |
| 27 | It 's just — well , it 's just that if whatever killed Paula was a software virus rather than an accident , then someone would have had to infect the suitbrain . |
| 28 | If , however , the market demands this type of product , then someone must supply it and it is better the consumer buys a product made from organic ingredients in the hope that they will eventually progress onto the unadulterated whole milk yoghurt . |
| 29 | Then someone will call us and they will take a blood sample , and I will be terrified as the needle goes in and I feel that they are draining me , that I have no blood left to give . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , a trail of gunpowder from the bed under the doorway , then someone could have struck a tinder ? |