Example sentences of "then [vb mod] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why then should words be shorn of their decoration ? |
| 2 | Only then could tributes be written and statues erected . |
| 3 | How then could philosophy in general be said to have a male bias ? |
| 4 | I could n't say it 's new , but then could blue be said to be royal ? |
| 5 | What then shall man do in this state ? |
| 6 | Even as Pope attacks the gaudiness of Timon 's villa in ‘ Epistle to Burlington ’ , he is able to praise the alternative : ‘ Who then shall grace , or who improve the Soil ? / Who plants like BATHURST , or who builds like BOYLE ’ [ Pope , 3:2 , 154 ] . |
| 7 | If this is what happens in the North now , how much worse then would things be in a united Ireland ? : |
| 8 | Only then would ministers steel themselves to introduce the unpleasant but indispensable reform measures . |
| 9 | He proposed on June 22 that the four allies ' rights and responsibilities should be extended for a period of five years after unification , and that only then would Germany have the sovereign right to conclude international agreements such as a treaty of membership of NATO . |
| 10 | Only then would persons of the right calibre be attracted to serve in it . |
| 11 | Only then would Thomas believe . |
| 12 | Martens said that van Basten , 28 , will be out of action for at least four months , and only then will doctors be able to assess if he can return to top class soccer . |
| 13 | Only then will Japan consider granting aid to the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | Only if the whole person is engaged , he wrote , only if you have the sense that the truth , in however paradoxical a form , is on your side , that reality , no matter how disguised , is what you are working towards , only then will Proteus be defeated . |
| 15 | Only then will food poisoning and prosecutions become a thing of the past ’ . |
| 16 | Only then will negotiations start on which matches involving Middlesbrough may be televised by BSkyB . |
| 17 | How then can history totalize totalization if totalization is never accomplished ? |
| 18 | Certainly , these images no longer shock , but , if controversy and moral discourse is entirely abandoned , how then can feminism articulate the problematics of the representation of the female body within dominant pictorial , curatorial and critical practices ? |
| 19 | How then can gravity slow down light ? |
| 20 | How then can shareholders hope to make judgments about long-term prospects ? ’ |
| 21 | When they 've finished the route then can chip off a bit of the climb to put in their gin and tonics ! |
| 22 | It is imperative that there is love between missionaries , for only then can God bless the work . |
| 23 | How then can God say to Moses ( Exodus 6:2–3 ) that " by my name the Lord I did not make myself known the them " ( i.e. Abraham , etc . ) ? |
| 24 | Similarly , laws-of-war considerations might lead to advocacy of a very large nuclear armoury , on the grounds that only then can weapons be used discriminately — but this could only too easily be read as a threat by the adversary . |
| 25 | Only then can acceleration be maximised . |
| 26 | If they reject it , though , another referendum will have to be held on the draft constitution — and only then can elections , based on the new constitution , be held . |
| 27 | Clay typing is facilitated by the Natural Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy log ( NGT ) ; only then can illite be differentiated from kaolinite . |