Example sentences of "then it must [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 If it is a slow-moving species , then it must rely instead on provoking a panic response in the attacker , a response that sees it pull back in horror and retreat to a safe place .
2 ‘ If you put that barrier up in Wivenhoe to stop the water going into Colchester then it must leave Brightlingsea and St Osyth vulnerable . ’
3 What I am suggesting is that if education is for all then it must meet all needs .
4 As the present government , despite its ‘ hands off , free market ’ attitudes , is involving itself in the workings of the pub trade , then it must shoulder the responsibility for the present state of affairs and insist that arbitration on rents must be genuinely independent and not loaded in favour of the brewers .
5 If the government expropriates land , then it must pay compensation to the office of the custodian .
6 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 .
7 Then it must have changed its mind , and started to grow in two directions , a narrower tube into the ‘ mouthpiece ’ and a broader one into the ‘ horn ’ , and there is some evidence that the ‘ horn ’ end continued to get wider and longer .
8 Then it must have been inadvertent , in his case . ’
9 If the Gospel was written by the John Mark who is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles , then it must have been written in the first generation of the Christian Church , between 35 and 75 AD .
10 " Then it must have rained at last . "
11 If Law had a political model , then it must have been Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman , a fellow Scot who had shown that an ordinary man could hold the highest office without discredit and that he could beat the clever and the politically sophisticated at their own game .
12 Then it must have been the stream running over the rocks , ’ said Betty .
13 Then it must have been a ghost , ’ said Betty , and clearly wished she had n't .
14 Then it must have been holiday-makers out for a walk , ’ said Betty .
15 But as it was no longer where she had left it , then it must have done , unless someone had shot into Rose Cottage and stolen it while Cassie had been sitting on the loo .
16 Then it must have been two other people that have been kissing on our front porch for the last nine months .
17 Then it must have been the day Angy was murdered !
18 If the oboe band was a viable theatrical ensemble as late as 1688 , then it must have been even more so in the 1660s , when the orchestra as we conceive of it was merely starting to come into being .
19 The vicar said that indeed if this had happened then it must have been the Devil in disguise .
20 If there is an answer , then it must lie outside the stories , and in particular in the material that occurs between Exodus 17 and Numbers 11 .
21 If the detachment moves more than 8″ away from its regiment then it must use its own leadership value for tests , but if it moves back within 8″ it will regain the leadership benefit .
22 If a rhetorical approach is to understand a phenomenon such as Taking the Side of the Other , then it must accept that at any time there are both explicit and implicit argumentative features to attitudes .
23 Then it must work out where the money will come from .
24 Where the Appeal Committee is satisfied that either you or the Council requires to get further relevant information or advice for the presentation of the case , then it must adjourn the hearing .
25 If a new test of obscenity is to be considered , then it must catch works which endanger not governments , but society itself .
26 If the agent does exist then it must attack one of the two sub-divisions of the body 's immune system .
27 ‘ If it does not contain interest rates , then it must include an invitation for readers to get full written details of the terms . ’
28 If it is to become an accepted institution in the United Kingdom , then it must become a much clearer and more developed concept .
29 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 .
30 If consent makes a touching lawful , then it must follow that if a patient withholds consent , if he refuses to be touched by a doctor , any further touching will be unlawful , and will give rise to civil and criminal liability .
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