Example sentences of "then [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small firms then may have to pay more for their materials , receive less cash for their output and have to wait longer for their credit notes to mature . |
| 2 | Diligence at work then may have more to do with the consequences of non-cooperation than it does with internalizing the primacy of company interest . |
| 3 | That she did so then may have been as much the consequence of events as of advice . |
| 4 | Although the rate of movement between India and Eurasia fell markedly after their initial collision some 50 Ma ago , convergence of the two land masses since then may have amounted to as much as 2500 km . |
| 5 | If that 's door policies , then let's have some more please . ’ |
| 6 | Then let's have caramels and you wo n't have to go away . |
| 7 | Which basically says , if Friday Sunday school works , then let's have it . |
| 8 | Come on then let's have a little bit of wind a little bit of wind come along . |
| 9 | Right , come on then let's have these and . |
| 10 | Come on then let's have a look at you , we do n't want a |
| 11 | The stuff circulating in her veins by then must have been a cocktail in which blood was a fairly minor ingredient . |
| 12 | In doing this , Carvajal and his colleagues finally threw off the disguise of Roman Catholicism , which by then must have worn very thin . |
| 13 | It is entirely illegitimate to read post-Freudian standards into a pre-Freudian world or to assume that sexual behaviour then must have been like ours . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A moment 's pain then might have avoided a lifetime of imprisonment since . |
| 16 | A goal then might have made a big difference . |
| 17 | Terence 's face went from being startled by his attack to astonishment , then might have cracked into a smile . |
| 18 | A child then might have seen or heard talk of acceptable violence because that was what war was . |
| 19 | The first show quality Akitas came to Britain in about 1980 and no one then could have predicted just how quickly the breed would gain popularity . |
| 20 | A goal then could have changed the face of the battle , and Kerly said : ‘ I feel so sick about it because it was such a significant miss . |
| 21 | Maria did n't believe that the child she had been then could have fascinated him . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd like me to develop a copperplate style of handwriting ? ’ she murmured , then could have bitten off her tongue . |
| 23 | I was about to make some coffee , ’ Merrill said , then could have bitten off her tongue as he said , |
| 24 | ‘ We hardened criminals learn to take the rough with the smooth , ’ she joked , then could have bitten out her tongue , because it had been a friendly overture , and now his face had closed up . |
| 25 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 26 | The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him . |
| 27 | Anyone entering the room just then would have thought what a very handsome couple they were . |
| 28 | The procedure then would have been to express the frequency of the imperfect subjunctive in relation to all the contexts where its occurrence was possible . |
| 29 | The Russians on the other hand would have stripped me naked , even if the temperature was far below zero , and then would have sliced every article of my clothes , even down to my shoes , into tiny pieces . |
| 30 | The Jessica I 'd known then would have felt more enthusiasm for a Christmas cracker bangle than she was showing for her gold bracelet . |