Example sentences of "then it [modal v] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But very often you 'll see wa men will wa go horizontal , then it 'll go vertical round the corner , then nearly horizontal or at forty five down the stairs . |
| 2 | And then it 'll work both ways . |
| 3 | If homo sapiens is unequivocally demarcated from the rest of the animal kingdom by the language barrier then it would seem reasonable to accord something like honorary status to those existing in its image , as it were , but otherwise enfeebled through age or retardation . |
| 4 | If a deviant sentence can be normalised by adjusting its grammatical structure — for instance , by changing the order or syntactic category of elements , or by adding , substituting or deleting one or more grammatical elements — then it would seem reasonable to suppose that its deviance is grammatical in nature . |
| 5 | However , where the job was a very difficult one involving areas where it might be impossible to gain access even with scaffolding , and the reservation had been specifically drawn to the consumer 's attention , then it would seem reasonable to rely on the clause . |
| 6 | If the new husband 's financial status is not acceptable to the mortgagee , so that the mortgagee is only prepared to agree to a conveyance of the property to the wife and new husband if the husband remains liable under the original mortgage , then it would seem reasonable for the husband to comply only with the terms of the court order or matrimonial agreement ( to which of course the new husband is not a party ) and not to convey/transfer to the wife and the new husband . |
| 7 | Then it would seem romantic . |
| 8 | If then it would seem artificial to analyse and describe the whole process when asked the reason for my choice , is that not because I already have the vocabulary of pleasure to name it ? |
| 9 | It is not clear whether they are issues in which Marx was ever really involved ; if he had been , then it would seem likely that they would have played a more important role in his later work . |
| 10 | If income is part of ‘ ability to pay ’ , then it would seem clear that wealth is also . |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , the minimal change required is one necessarily involving one or more full lexical items , then it would seem justifiable to diagnose the deviance as semantic . |
| 12 | And then it would get dark , and , since conditions were much as they were last night , there would be mist over the marshes — it was coming up a little on my walk . |
| 13 | If the monopolist were less interested in profits and more interested in maximising the firm 's sales revenue , then it would produce 100,000 units at a price of £5 . |
| 14 | I suspect that is now the view of the Liberal Democrats , so if Labour were to hang on trying to breathe life into the corpse while the Democrats tiptoed from the funeral parlour , then it would lose all legitimacy as a multi-party device . |
| 15 | If they are moved in that order then it would take twelve operations to move from a to b . |
| 16 | If permission is granted for the laboratory , then it would take another two to three years to construct , gather data and analyse the results . |
| 17 | If it were possible to store all the different types of primary data in computer-readable form then it would become feasible to use the speed of the computer to carry out the required searches , comparisons , overlays and numerical modelling . |
| 18 | When good husbandry or storage techniques fail then it may become necessary to carry out control measures by the installation of appropriate additional equipment , the choice of equipment/control method being decided only after seeking advice and taking all the circumstances into account . |
| 19 | If this situation goes on unchanged , then it may become necessary eventually , for legal reasons , to take steps to presume his death . |
| 20 | Thus , Stair , II i. 5 : ‘ The vast ocean is common to all mankind as to navigation and fishing , which are the only uses thereof , because it is not capable of bounds ; but when the sea is inclosed in bays , creeks , or otherwise is capable of any bounds or meiths as within the points of such lands , or within the view of such shores , then it may become proper , but with the reservation of passage for commerce as in the land . ’ |
| 21 | If your army includes at least one Goblin Mob then it may include any number of Snotling Pump Wagons . |
| 22 | If your army contains at least one Goblin Mob then it may include any number of Doom Diver Catapults . |
| 23 | If your army contains at least one Goblin Mob then it may include any number of Goblin wolf chariots . |
| 24 | What I am suggesting is that if education is for all then it must meet all needs . |
| 25 | If government says that a unanimous verdict is necessary for criminal conviction because special moral harm is suffered when someone is unjustly convicted of a crime , then it must take that special moral harm into account in considering , for example , the admissibility of confessions under various circumstances . |
| 26 | If the agent does exist then it must attack one of the two sub-divisions of the body 's immune system . |
| 27 | If we study the annual function of social capital — hence of the total capital of which the individual capital forms only fractional parts , whose movement is their individual movement and simultaneously integrating link in the movement of the total capital — and its results , i.e. , if we study the commodity-product furnished by society during the year , then it must become apparent how the process of reproduction of the social capital takes place , what characteristics distinguish this process of reproduction from the process of reproduction of an individual capital , and what characteristics are common to both . |
| 28 | If minor degrees of depression or diminished wellbeing lead to significantly lower blood pressure , then it should follow that depression that is sufficiently severe to lead to hospital admission will be associated with substantially reduced blood pressure . |
| 29 | Roberts stressed that if a textbook is to form the main staple of the course then it should teach historical procedures , as well as offering a historical narrative . |
| 30 | If the model is an accurate description of the way in which option prices are set and if the market is efficient , then it should produce good predictions of future option prices given the various parameters . |