Example sentences of "then [pron] can not [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ If Mrs Thatcher is working with Philip Morris then I can not shake her hand . |
| 2 | But if it 's not required by law , then I can not issue , and if people ask for advice we are obliged under Fire Services , the Fire Services Act to give that advice , but what I 'm really saying is that with the , the pressure of work on the Fire Safety Department , it 's likely that if it 's a fairly low risk to life , we 'll never get round to it , and that 's the honest truth . |
| 3 | The thing with me and with ‘ Crooksy ’ [ Garth Crooks , his friend ] as well is that , if you 're black in a small community where there are n't too many blacks and you 've got a little bit of stile , then you can not go wrong . |
| 4 | Even if you 're awkward and want a Japanese aristocrat with no left ear , then you can not beat the Celestial store at the Vatican . |
| 5 | If you have to live in a city , then you can not beat the fantastic views from Barbara Taylor Bradford 's penthouse flat in Manhattan . |
| 6 | If one big building society can fall foul of the rules , then you can not assume that any lender will get its advertising right . |
| 7 | ‘ Then you can not criticise me for making the best of my situation . ’ |
| 8 | If , on the other hand , you allow rationality to children , then you can not use their lack of it as a criterion to distinguish them from adults . |
| 9 | ‘ Then you can not have killed , ’ Huy continued . |
| 10 | I explained to them that when you begin to acquire so much of a nation 's wealth , then you can not escape attention . |
| 11 | If you miss then you can not fire any further shots that turn . |
| 12 | If you miss then you can not fire any further shots that turn . |
| 13 | If you miss then you can not fire any further shots that turn . |
| 14 | If you can not afford the coffee table then you can not afford the book . |
| 15 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 16 | Thus if we have a whole W , made up of parts X and Y then we can not assume that the value of W is the value of X added to the value of Y , for W may be an organic unity . |
| 17 | All I say is , if someone can not play in rhythm and has not music within him , then we can not admit him . |
| 18 | If we do not know whether they are representative , then we can not claim that our conclusions have any relevance to anybody else at all . |
| 19 | If the computer 's field of activity is limited to our planet , and if our fate depends on it alone , then we can not count on anything after death except some permutation of what we have already experienced in life ; we shall again encounter similar landscapes and beings . |
| 20 | In the second case , a syndrome is a set of symptoms which frequently ( but not necessarily invariably ) co-occur ; if there are occasional instances ( no matter how rare ) where some of the symptoms are present and others absent , then one can not explain the syndrome as due to a single underlying defect generating all the symptoms . |
| 21 | Petrol engines also now need fuel injection , as well as electronic engine management systems and expensive catalytic converters to meet exhaust regulations , and even then they can not match the lean-burn diesel for most emissions . |
| 22 | If patients wish to be treated ‘ as human beings ’ and not simply as bodies to be mended or diseases to be cured , then they can not object to the social nature of their humanity being scrutinised and its relevance to therapy assessed . |
| 23 | Then they can not have what the larger community regards as the necessary minimum for decency … . |
| 24 | Since it is admitted , or rather insisted , that as far as you are concerned there could be no difference between the hypothesis that you are currently sitting reading and the hypothesis that you are a brain in a vat being fed the experiences of one sitting reading , then it can not matter to you which is really true and which is false . |
| 25 | The conclusion derived from this is that if an object is such that in principle it can not be referred to directly and unequivocally with a simple symbol , only described , then it can not qualify as a fundamental ontological existent . |
| 26 | If this is the justification we seek for abandoning medical sex classification and resorting to a legal method , then it can not defend itself from reproach . |
| 27 | If a Troll sustains one or more wounds from flames then it can not regenerate any wounds , not even those inflicted by ordinary weapons . |
| 28 | Unless a player is totally without imagination , then he can not fail to be aware of what has gone before as he makes his pilgrimage round Augusta . |
| 29 | But if he can not show you have the papers any longer , then he can not prove he was here on the night of the murder . |