Example sentences of "then [pron] can [be] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no need to go self-consciously looking for intuitions , for then one can be deceived and become the victim of imagination , but such faculties are automatically rediscovered as we learn the art of meditation , of stillness , and true mind control . |
| 2 | Their deductions seemed to be contradictory , but if the little word " like " is inserted with regard to each , then they can be seen as possibly converging . |
| 3 | If it 's a big discharge which is perhaps on a Royal Commission standard and it is consistently turning out say a 30 BOD and a 40 solids then it can be regarded as harmful and one would press for improvement to be carried out . … |
| 4 | Once it is realized that signals that change cells ' behaviour do not really carry intricate information , then it can be seen that any complexity of behaviour lies in the cells ' capacity to respond rather than in complexity in the signals . |
| 5 | If r = n , then it can be seen that the variance of lifetime consumption is definitely a decreasing function of a 3 . |
| 6 | Burgess himself stated that its creation was specific to one city — Chicago , however even then it can be seen as too simplistic . |
| 7 | If the faculty of negation is crucial to thinking , then it can be assumed that each cognitive strategy is potentially negateable . |
| 8 | If it can be established by observation in some test experiment that a 10 lb. weight and a 1 lb. weight in free fall move downwards at roughly the same speed , then it can be concluded that the claim that bodies fall at speeds proportional to their weight is false . |
| 9 | If the management m a company get a pay rise , then it can be argued that the shop-floor workers should get one too . |
| 10 | Then it can be argued that too much power is being concentrated in the hands of the minister . |
| 11 | If the present cratering rate on Mars can be extended into the distant past then it can be shown that among the light and moderately heavily cratered regions there is a great range of ages , from regions that may be no more than a few tens of Ma old , to regions about 3000 Ma old . |
| 12 | If this has been the case then it can be shown that the Mercurian smooth plains are slightly older than the lunar maria . |
| 13 | In the case of Mars , if the small bodies had aphelia between Mars and Jupiter then it can be shown that the crater-saturated regions on Mars would be older than 4000 Ma . |
| 14 | But if the aphelia lay well beyond Jupiter then it can be shown that these regions would be about 3900 Ma old . |
| 15 | If the frequency difference between half-power points on the resonance curve is then it can be shown that , for small loss , the loss factor The vibrating reed method may therefore be used to plot the loss-factor/ temperature " spectrum " ( although for precise work the change of resonant frequency with temperature needs to be compensated for by , for example , time-temperature superposition . |