Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If it is crystal clear and I am convicted of being in my dotage or of going on at half-cock then I shall ask British Telecom to accept my apologies wince at the thought of my next bill , and keep my nose clean . |
2 | In explaining each point , I shall begin by posing a problem that the living machine faces ; then I shall consider possible solutions to the problem that a sensible engineer might consider ; I shall finally come to the solution that nature has actually adopted . |
3 | It may go on after half term because she may not be able to come down on those two days , if that happens then I 'll have other back up material for them |
4 | If he is n't just amusing himself , then I can expect total siege . |
5 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
6 | If you try ‘ late-hitting ’ , then you will develop maximum clubhead speed long after impact , and you will probably suffer from a slice . |
7 | Then you can go straight back to the ship , if you want . |
8 | If you know the type of this you 're looking for , then you can get free use of paper , stamps and a telephone , in fact anything that 'll get you that ideal position . |
9 | If you have feeling , then you can have fast feeling . |
10 | If you have feeling , then you can have fast feeling |
11 | If you 've got the C D we could all , yes you do , we could all use it , then you could have blank tapes , and then you can tape it on cassette but I want a list of two C D's and I , in Argos if there 's a watch nan want 's the list and she want 's it this weekend . |
12 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
13 | Then you 'd see old Pat McEwen 's wife looking out for you . |
14 | If you are interested , as I am , in the symbolic representation of relationships then you must pay close attention both to contrast and to small details . |
15 | ‘ Then you must take appropriate action . |
16 | For example , if you arrive in my business dressed as a surgeon , a priest or a barrister when I was expecting a banker then we may have initial problems in communicating . |
17 | As a detail of notation , if it seems useful to have a way to distinguish property-meanings from entity-meanings , then we may use round brackets for the former , thus allowing us to replace ( 7 ) by : We may also point out that the physical orientation of the arrowhead in our representations naturally reflects the direction of qualification , not the surface order of the instantiating elements . |
18 | If we do n't succeed in this then we may require other people to act as our parents , or we may regard others as a threat to this self-sufficiency and therefore avoid intimacy . |
19 | ‘ Then we 'll go dead centre , ’ Defries decided , and planted her index finger on the forward speed button . |
20 | Then we 'll have true peace . |
21 | Similarly , if score A has a positive Z score then we would expect variable B to have a variable Z score . |
22 | If the two sets of scores are positively correlated , then we would expect positive Z scores to occur together and similarly negative Z scores should be paired . |
23 | If we used only the same newspapers then we would miss new developments which added to the range , while if we did add to the sample then we were not comparing like with like . |
24 | I think our view is that if that provision was to be any greater , then we would have significant difficulty in accommodating that provision within our part of Greater York , primarily for for greenbelt considerations , not reasons , erm any additional provision would require a rolling back of the greenbelt , er significant provision would have two implications , erm either it would mean peripheral expansion er of York into the greenbelt around York and into our district , we feel that would adversely affect the special character of York , lead to outward sprawl of the York urban area , encroachment into open countryside , and coalescence of the urban area with the villages in our district , er and we we would n't want to support that . |
25 | Then we shall head due south again on the same road , passing into the Ukraine and out of the hills . |
26 | So perhaps then we should displace sexual difference by cultural difference ? |
27 | If heroin use proves relatively harmless to all concerned then we should advocate legal reform and controlled availability . |
28 | In general , if one individual is able to make its future actions plainer than another and if it derives benefit from doing so ( which does not seem implausible in a social context ) , then we should expect evolutionary change in the effectiveness of such signals . |
29 | If they are clearly being offered commercially — without any restricting statement — then we should get commercial quality . |
30 | On behalf of the WRU Peter Owen said ‘ If any club goes ahead with a practice match or trial match and we get to hear about it , then we will take immediate action ’ . |