Example sentences of "then [pron] can [be] " in BNC.

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1 Justification by inference is conditional justification only ; A's justification is conditional upon the justification of B and C. But if all inferential justification is conditional in this sense , then nothing can be shown to be actually , non-conditionally justified .
2 On the other hand if marketing is seen and pursued as a facet of good communications and as a faster and better response to needs then everyone can be a winner .
3 But then I can be equally gentle .
4 I like moving in anonymous crowds of people : then I can be anyone I want .
5 so I might have a couple of days off and then I can be with Laddie and take him for walks and everything
6 If little Jimmy 's mother tells everyone that they can never go on a long journey because little Jimmy is always car-sick , then you can be sure that little Jimmy always will be car-sick .
7 If it is the latter kind , then you can be rather more technical and detailed than you might be for the general readership .
8 And if your if your vetting does n't come up to scratch , then you can be terminated , it 's in your contract .
9 You can get back from York in quarter of an hour and then you can be sat there for
10 Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference .
11 On the criteria we 've been talking about today , so find yourself a partner that you have n't worked with today somebody erm if you go in the same group that Kathy 's in because then if it comes up to four o'clock Kathy wants to go then you can be the other partner you 've got half an hour to put on one sheet of paper clearly and concisely what we 've done on communications .
12 They say if you can walk , then you can be taught to dance .
13 And then you can be erm actually the train journey to Enfield Chase takes about another half-an-hour , so that 's two hours at least and as well .
14 Then she can be a little difficult . ’
15 It was the height of parochialism , but if churches are not parochial then who can be ?
16 And if it is beyond the scope of our work , then who can be relied upon to undertake it ?
17 If we can truly say we are free of that fault and our understanding is such that our motives do not stem from intolerance , then we can be angry .
18 If we all pull together , then we can be a successful force in world rugby again .
19 Then we can be three weeks in Paris .
20 I 've a couple of things to sort out , then we can be off . ’
21 And then we can be in a position to judge .
22 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 .
23 Indeed , Ernest Bevin , speaking at a union dinner , maintained that , if there is a new conception of the objects of industry , then there can be created in this country … conditions which will minimize strikes and probably make them non-existent for 25 years . ’
24 If the fruits of the single market are not going to be realised , then there can be precious little incentive to go along with political and economic union , even if we wanted to .
25 Unless firmer action is taken to remove these weaknesses then there can be no authority to act against censorship on a larger stage .
26 If mind itself has a social origin — if , that is , it arises through the process of communication — and if thinking consists at bottom in the manipulation of generalized attitudes taken over from the social group as a whole , then there can be no question of the social determination , in some sense , of knowledge and thought .
27 But if there are no such things as ethical states of affairs , then there can be no question of evidence for them .
28 If this is the case with confidential material , then there can be no guarantee that the secrecy of the material can be maintained .
29 If we wish to revive that tradition , or if we are interested in creating a fully democratic society , then there can be no doubt that a more than narrowly political or formal equality must be one of our goals .
30 If it is alleged that the tribunal has reached a wrong decision then there can be a question of law but only of a limited character .
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