Example sentences of "then it be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that is the case , then it is possible that he also thought that the synagogue ritual , as well as the direction of their commercial life and benefactions should have been handled differently . |
| 2 | If wood is to be stained as well as filled , then it is possible with some makes to thin the filler with the wood dye , so that dyeing and filling can be carried out in one operation . |
| 3 | If blasphemy was ‘ a way of affirming belief , then it is possible to see how Eliot 's most blasphemously despairing poem , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , led up to his conversion . |
| 4 | This is home video , and if the person is not familiar with the text , then it is possible perhaps to have a libretto and translation to one side . |
| 5 | If so , then it is possible for one form of communication ( white and black , positive and negative light ) to suggest the existence of another dimension ( colour ) . |
| 6 | If ‘ life ’ is defined broadly ; perhaps , as we suggested earlier , as any kind of chemical system that can evolve adaptively , then it is possible to envisage life of a kind that does not involve water . |
| 7 | If cells have their position specified as in a coordinate system and also have rules for interpreting the positional information , then it is possible , with the appropriate rules for interpretation , to generate any pattern that is required , from faces — even the Mona Lisa — to limbs . |
| 8 | If , however , the service is seen as a social institution , with aims which were , to a large extent , independent of market organization , then it is possible to see it as much more successful and of far greater significance . |
| 9 | If the explanation of affinity is true , then it is possible that spermatozoa produced by a male hybrid would contain only the paternal chromosomes , and will therefore carry the Y sex chromosome , a donkey-Y in male mules and a horse-Y in male hinnies . |
| 10 | If this theory is correct , then it is possible to predict the relative numbers of quasars and BL Lac objects we should expect to detect . |
| 11 | If urban values lend support to the industrial economy upon which we all depend today and this is further characterised by competition , unemployment , social welfare , and a sharp distinction between work and leisure then it is possible to see rural values supporting an almost diametrically-opposed set of conditions : co-operation , multiple occupations , kin and neighbourhood help and no separation of work and leisure . |
| 12 | Then it is possible to be selective by shooting the adults only . |
| 13 | If you can arrange for an automatic ballcock top-up into the filter chamber and pressure bungs on the inlet(s) to the pond , then it is possible to fill only the filter with water , suck it through the Eradicator , into the sand filter and so into the pool . |
| 14 | If that is the case , then it is possible to draw a comparison between Gandhi 's teaching and the teaching of such Western thinkers as Schleiermacher and Tillich . |
| 15 | If the cause is congenital or unknown , then it is possible her baby may inherit her disability , in which case further investigation may be desirable . |
| 16 | Now so long as one is careful in the selection of lexical realization , then it is possible to distinguish the different meanings supposedly signalled by the verb form . |
| 17 | ‘ Then it is possible that he will be planning to spend some time in Tbilisi . |
| 18 | If this is the same person as the author of the Gospel then it is possible to build up a picture of him . |
| 19 | If at least some people and states obey some laws for other reasons , such as moral conviction or non-coerced self-interest , then it is possible that all persons and states might do so . |
| 20 | When the ‘ victim ’ is , say , a government agency such as the Inland Revenue ( UK ) or Medicare ( US ) , or another vast transnational organization , or when it is millions of individuals deprived of trivial amounts of property , or when whole countries or even continents are ‘ victimized ’ as in the case of bribery and corruption of Third World governments or legal officials , or the exportation of products whose consumption is only really safe in a western cultural environment ( Chetley 1979 ) , then it is possible for the corporate official to convince himself that there is no real person suffering , and therefore there is no real criminal victim . |
| 21 | If Kirwan is serious — and hooker Sean Fitzpatrick assures us he is — then it is possible that he will not wear the silver fern again because , even though Alex Wyllie is no longer in contention , there 's no guarantee that Hart will get the job . |
| 22 | IF , AS those in love with Super Mario and techno believe , we are to become a society where people bleep instead of laugh and the written and spoken word is confined to that particular history drawer already full of white football boots , Swapshop and pogo sticks , then it is possible this will be the last ever poet to be reviewed in the NME . |
| 23 | If one believes that God ( whatever one may mean by God ) is equally available to all times and places , then it is possible to start in the present in acquiring one 's religious sensibilities and formulating what one may mean by God . |
| 24 | If a particular human is capable of handling the proper aspects of a gadget , which must include mental knowledge of its place in the Machine of Evolution , then it is possible to use it as an aid , but as there are increasing numbers of gadgets being invented and marketed , so the human brain has no time and space to see these in relation to its own life/thought scale because , upon being born , the human is thrown immediately into a multi-armed and legged wrestling match with levers , wires , buttons and switches and fails to grasp the meaning of it all , being occupied totally in rushing to partially master the use of one before the marketeers rush in faster with 10 new gleaming diversions . |
| 25 | Then it is possible , using ( 1 ) , so to choose , |
| 26 | If we accept that accountability can be interpreted in a moral and professional , as well as a contractual , sense then it is possible to assume a concept of professional development . |
| 27 | If true observation statements are given , then it is possible to logically deduce from them the falsity of some universal statements , whereas it is not possible to deduce from them the truth of any universal statements . |
| 28 | If the designer is satisfied that equal additions to every cylinder are going to occur , then it is possible to provide only embedded overflow areas . |
| 29 | Where there is no council housing then it is possible for the village to be completely overrun by ex-urban newcomers . |
| 30 | If Saddam Hussein is easily defeated , if the show is a success , and the war does not lose its current popular appeal , then it is possible that the United States , Britain , Israel and Saudi Arabia will establish a permanent military presence in the Gulf . |