Example sentences of "then there [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach . |
| 2 | When the issue has not been discussed because it is felt to be too painful to talk about or because it is considered an unsuitable topic of conversation , then there may be problems . |
| 3 | If meditation means achieving a state in which stress is reduced — which I believe to be the case — a state in which the self-healing processes of the body may be encouraged , then there may be many channels through which to achieve it . |
| 4 | If this is true then there may be a loophole for the theory ; a case where an individual , for some reason or another , such as being abandoned at birth , never discovers how he was born , nor has opportunity to absorb such information unconsciously while a young child . |
| 5 | If developing countries tap existing sources for money to improve communications , then there may be less cash for other projects . |
| 6 | When both types of information are available and the temporal cues are redundant , then there may be little advantage . |
| 7 | If , by contrast , ageing has evolved as part of an optimal life history , then there may be a direct cost , for instance in the form of a reduction in survival to maturity , delayed maturity or lower fertility in early adulthood . |
| 8 | In extreme cases all instructions have such unused fields , and then there may be room for two instructions to a word . |
| 9 | If you 're keeping your spouse because you have the assets and he or she does n't , there 's no good leaving nothing to the spouse , unless that spouse is rich in his or her own right Rich in comparative terms , then there may be good reasons not to live him or her anything because you 'd rather leave it to the children . |
| 10 | If these world markets are themselves genuinely competitive , and if the domestic market is open to imports , then there may be little direct harm resulting from the pursuit of large scale ( though ideally one would wish there to be some scrutiny of the dominant firm in the context of the world market by a supra-national competition authority ) . |
| 11 | If there are good arguments for using video regularly as a carrier of lectures — sometimes the case in a programme which is repeated in several centres — then there may be equally good arguments for planning and recording them as video programmes . |
| 12 | If this is the case , then there may be a clinical role for somatostatin analogues in the treatment of cancers that express both somatostatin and EGF receptors , regardless of their capacity to locally produce TGF α or EGF . |
| 13 | Alternatively if the trust is a UK trust which is exported then there may be an export charge . |
| 14 | So one tries to build up a kind of agenda of all the things that different people involved think might be important before one tries to produce a plan as to how one 's going to work , and even then there may be a chance for you actually to discuss the plan with various people as well . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Then there would be the family holiday to save him . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then there would be silence , but from time to time I should receive a ‘ chit ’ from regimental HQ to say that all was well . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But then there would be the scandal to hide from . |
| 21 | At least then there would be a reason . |
| 22 | Then there would be more tedious interviews , probably with women . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If , for example , the module were for Computer Science students then there would be a concentration on text processing , database publishing and communications . |
| 26 | Every now and then there would be a rogue stitch , that is , black when it should be white and vice versa . |
| 27 | I 'd get her settled and then there would be some distraction and she 'd start jumping around , or ‘ bating ’ as falconers call it . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |