Example sentences of "then might " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question then might be : can the one-party system steer its way to economic triumph ? |
| 2 | Then might not the rotting stump of the tree split under their weight and they come to grief ? |
| 3 | In 1543 , Knox joyfully recorded the effect of allowing the reading of scripture in the vernacular : ‘ Then might have been seen the Bible lying upon almost every gentleman 's table . |
| 4 | Then might you have seen many a horse running about the field with the saddle under his belly , and many a horseman in evil plight upon the ground . |
| 5 | Killing then might be regarded as a moral duty in certain circumstances in spite of the instinctive horror we might feel about the destruction of living beings . |
| 6 | ‘ Then might n't it help keep your mind off things if you took up war work ? |
| 7 | Who then might this victim be ? |
| 8 | Only then might he cleanse the tabernacle and offer on behalf of the people 's sins . |
| 9 | What differences follow , for example , from the young Elvis Presley starting out from printed song-copies but slowly transforming them in lengthy sessions in Sam Phillips 's Sun studio , as against Lennon and McCartney taking mostly orally worked-out ideas to George Martin who then might transform them through literate methods — for instance , the addition of written parts ? |
| 10 | A moment 's pain then might have avoided a lifetime of imprisonment since . |
| 11 | If he was hanging in a slaughterhouse , then might they not choose to use the implements of the slaughterer on him ? |
| 12 | She chuckled , then might pick up the animal by the scruff ( if it were a cavey , or a bird ) , and dash it to death on the ground and spill the guts to read them for herself , then sprinkle blood inside the circle and on her cheeks and brow . |
| 13 | And if Miss Adeane was a wanton then might she not also be a thief ? |
| 14 | Then might it not be a good idea for you to introduce me to Lady Merchiston ? ’ |
| 15 | A goal then might have made a big difference . |
| 16 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 17 | We there proposed the intensional structures ( 61 ) and ( 62 ) as representations of ordinary predicatives and postnominal attributives , respectively : ( 61 ) E P ( 62 ) [ E P ] How then might we distinguish between , on the one hand , a clause which has as its subject a noun phrase containing a postnominal attributive , and on the other — admittedly a much rarer case — a clause which has another clause as its subject ? |
| 18 | Terence 's face went from being startled by his attack to astonishment , then might have cracked into a smile . |
| 19 | What then might one mean by context ? |
| 20 | From this profusion of language-specific material one then might be able to build up some idea of just which aspects of the context of utterance are likely in general to exert functional pressures on language . |
| 21 | The book ( with VAT ) then might cost £23.50 , selling perhaps only 4,000 copies . |
| 22 | A child then might have seen or heard talk of acceptable violence because that was what war was . |
| 23 | Perhaps future circumstances would change and this then might be possible . |
| 24 | Well that might do then might n't it ? |
| 25 | I might get a blooming letter from Pauline someone then might n't I ? |
| 26 | Then might be in there . |