Example sentences of "then it [is] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The injustice is that the donkey is beaten until it collapses and then it is beaten for collapsing .
2 Now with diabetes there 's two types , too much sugar and too little sugar now diabetes erm , Irene said to you , erm is controlled by the insulin in the pancreas in the stomach , it throws out this insulin the liver throws out the sugar and I 'm not going into actual detail , but if there is too little insulin then it is allowing the liver to send out too much glucose , so if , if the person has got this erm pancreas that is n't churning out insulin or too little then your person will have sugar diabetes .
3 First this is held downwards , then it is swung upwards to varying heights so that you have a split second in which to hit it with a suitable technique .
4 If this cycle obtains , then it is argued that government is controlled , and public policy is congruent with the wishes of the majority of the electorate for most of the time .
5 Provided that labour and capital are perfectly mobile , that factors of production are fully employed and that there exists free competition , then it is argued that market forces will ensure the removal of spatial disparities .
6 If the relationship bourgeoisie is constituted via the popular classes in Paris and via the court aristocracy in Vienna , then it is constituted via the state in Berlin .
7 At this stage , the lock cylinder is inserted in the sliding panel ; sealant is applied all round , then it is screwed in place
8 If the brake is not applied by the driver then it is applied automatically ; it is the frequency of these automatic braking incidents that is recorded as an error .
9 If p contains the connective ’ v ’ as well as ’ ∘ ’ then it is called disjunctive .
10 If the test is objective , then it is based on the beliefs of the reasonable occupier .
11 If it is subjective , then it is based on the beliefs of the defendant .
12 If the word is not found then it is said to be misspelled , so either correction is attempted , or it is returned to the user for verification .
13 Then it is said that court time will be taken up by considering a mass of Parliamentary material and long arguments about its significance , thereby increasing the expense of litigation .
14 There is a tendency to look upon literature , particularly capital L ‘ Literature ’ , as something separate from life , but once literature is thought of in terms of story-telling and story-making , then it is seen to be part of a common and seemingly-essential human activity .
15 Basically just to put some flesh on the bones of what Michael has said that that is a view of the w of the Greater York study that erm the A sixty four south corridor is more likely er to er serve the needs of Leeds then it is to serve the needs of of of York .
16 If ‘ culture studies ’ , in its broadest sense , is represented paradigmatically by Michel Foucault in philosophy , by Jacques Derrida in modern languages , by Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco in semiotics , by Christian Metz in film theory , Henri Lefebvre in urbanism , and Jacques Lacan in psychoanalysis , then it is represented in sociology by Pierre Bourdieu .
17 It is most unlikely that ‘ everyone ’ does — and in any case , if you believe it , then it is affecting your life , so you need to examine it .
18 But then it is puzzling why so little reduction has occurred in Europe as a whole .
19 This method of deciding the right time to sow was recommended by Fitzherbert , the sixteenth-century writer on agriculture : ‘ go upon the land that is plowed and if it synge or crye or make any noise under they fete , then it is to wet to sowe .
20 If something is carried on then it is flogging a dead horse or blind ambition .
21 ‘ If the bank is the custodian of someone else 's money then it is aiding and abetting a crime .
22 It has to cool a little and you must pour off excess juices , then it is turned out , becoming a rather tropical tarte tatin , sitting inches high on the puff pastry .
23 But then it is believed Diana and her children will be back on the huge Althorp Estate .
24 If a method can be devised of enabling employees to acquire and sell shares in an unquoted company , and benefit from the increase in value of those shares over the employee 's period of ownership , then it is perceived that employees will wish to participate in the share capital and growth of their employing company and will be motivated to work to increase the value of the business .
25 The only way to clarify this state of affairs is to say that if you see a cat 's pupils suddenly expand , without any change in light intensity or proximity of objects , then it is experiencing a state of strong emotional arousal .
26 If it begins from the assumption of difference and then adduces literacy as the explanation , the argument is open to the same criticism that Goody himself levels at Lévi-Strauss ' dualism ; if , on the other hand , it begins from the assumption that literacy is the crucial source of difference and that the mental differences follow from this , then it is beginning from the very assumption that it claims to be setting out to prove .
27 ‘ Unless there is a change of heart and a positive determination to rid ourselves completely of this terrorism , then it is bound to happen in places such as Castlerock , as it has done in other areas . ’
28 The lichen is gathered from rocks late in the summer , dried in the sun , then it is placed with the wool in alternating layers in a large pot .
29 Which is precisely the point : if there is a politics to what has become known as poststructuralism , then it is articulated in this passage which unnervingly weaves capitalist economic exploitation , racism , colonialism , sexism , together with , perhaps unexpectedly , ‘ History ’ and the structure of the Hegelian dialectic .
30 With this view , if the 80 year old or the 40 year old can pay for the surgery then it is offered .
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