Example sentences of "then it [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baton is frequently of use to soloists , who are not all musicians , and whose eye profitably follows the baton 's movements , especially in slow tempos , which are always the hardest to follow : but then it is not heard . |
| 2 | If the speaker identifies discrimination with irrational feelings of hostility against blacks , then there exists the basis for a denial of prejudice : if the regiment is motivated by the desire to uphold tradition , then it is not motivated by feelings of antipathy towards blacks , and therefore it is not prejudiced . |
| 3 | But when we experience the work as play , then it is not work any more . |
| 4 | It is one of the greatest tragedies of the church in the west today that there is a similar grumbling and hardening of heart , so that the word of the Lord is simply not heard ; and if heard , then it is not obeyed . |
| 5 | If the conspiracy theory is an argument , then it is not directed rhetorically against its obvious object . |
| 6 | Then it is not targeted towards any sector of the workforce . |
| 7 | If a test module exists , then it is also recommended that the TEST-STATUS-ARE field should be filled in . |
| 8 | Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory . |
| 9 | If I see God 's power clearly but not his wisdom , then it is no use my finding out about his justice or faithfulness . |
| 10 | So you begin to take more cocaine , and quite soon you need more and more cocaine to unlock the gates of heaven , and once you reach heaven you do n't want to leave it and so you take still more cocaine , but by then it is n't working . ’ |
| 11 | If the word " real " in the sense of " actual " or " actually existent " has any discernible function at all , then it is only to indicate in a roundabout way that a certain proposition , or propositions , are actally true ; and " true " , as we have just seen , is itself eliminable as a propositional predicate . |
| 12 | But then it is all explained in the last paragraph , where Sir Kingsley gives his highest praise to Clive James , for heaven 's sake . |
| 13 | I think the most commonsense response to this objection is as follows : whatever may be the theoretical case about competing interpretations of low-level code in the machine , we need to remind ourselves that , if this machine is ‘ paying tax refunds ’ , as opposed to ‘ directing missiles ’ , then it is actually printing large rolls of cheques at its peripheral devices . |
| 14 | And for the interpretation stage , he defines a way of computing the shape and motion of a rigid object from three views of it , making his system assume that if such a computation succeeds then it is indeed faced with a rigid body in motion ( as opposed to two different objects or one object changing its shape ) . |
| 15 | Then it is usually sent to a committee . |
| 16 | In India and Africa , a very large proportion of the villagers must walk often several miles for all their water and even then it is usually polluted . |
| 17 | Erm then It is though let me just say quickly It is a recognized fact for weddings that you do sell through the magazines . |
| 18 | The usual rule of thumb is that if at least half the model 's base is covered by the template then it is potentially hit , while if the model 's base area is just grazed the model is not affected . |
| 19 | I mean if we do n't have compatible systems , then it 's not going to make a lot of it will make a difference , but not going to make as much difference , but I think if we do it could it really could be revolutionary . |
| 20 | If I 'm explaining it to you in terms of cos squared and idea what cos squared is I 'll have a guess then it 's not explaining . |
| 21 | So it , in the absence of the Tasm and in the absence of the capability then it 's not gon na have a nuclear role . |
| 22 | and then it 's not disturbing her although we 've been using the bottom bedroom really . |
| 23 | And then it 's not spelt the same way as this when it 's on a boat |
| 24 | There is a small dam to pass , and then it 's plain sailing all the way back to the car park to live with the shame that we failed to live up to the term ‘ fit walkers ’ . |
| 25 | so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer . |
| 26 | If you lifted a large laundry basket think about the size of a laundry basket , think about where the hands would go then down , lift it up and if it 's full of laundry then it 's obviously going to be heavier than if it was empty but that 's the size . |
| 27 | once it 's stuck in their head then it 's like reading things in the newspapers . |
| 28 | Now if anyone asks if you feel for any sense that perhaps some of these routines have perhaps got a bit of become inappropriate in some way , perhaps because you 're teaching a different type of child , or perhaps because you 've got rather different educational aims , they 've changed for some reason , then it 's like asking someone to go back to being a novice again in some senses to change . |
| 29 | And in in the circumstances I 'm talking about where I would work on the side , then it 's always gon na be erm turning to the quickest resort , rather than the last resort you know . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , but , you see , ’ said Masklin firmly , ‘ if I do n't try , then it 's always going to be like this . |