Example sentences of "then to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can earn advancement to leading cook and then to petty officer cook or caterer . |
| 2 | The true story of a major league baseball star who went from the street corner to stardom and then to armed robbery but is saved from destruction by a one in a million chance . |
| 3 | The control unit routes the signal to A or B preamps and then to modified Soldano stereo power amps . |
| 4 | Her hyperactivity and restlessness were taken up in the constant roaming , first about the churches in her own neighbourhood , then to religious sites in England , then on pilgrimage in Europe , all of them respectable things to do . |
| 5 | I turn then to recent feminist Christological positions . |
| 6 | Basic steels give way to high-strength and corrosion-resistant steels , then to new materials composed of steel mixed with silicon and custom-made polymers . |
| 7 | William Fromow , of Norfolk , decided to establish his nursery business in Chiswick , and in 1829 , he purchased an existing nursery , south of Turnham Green Lane and west of Sutton Lane , with its stock , and the business passed to his son , also William , then to other members of the family , in 1869 . |
| 8 | Mary Leapor would have been known if not to Susanna Jennens , then to other members of the Blencowe family who may have recommended her . |
| 9 | The trend accelerated greatly with the coming of Independence to India in 1947 and then to other countries of the Far East . |
| 10 | And then to slight Jon in such a way . |
| 11 | Earlier , in the first systematic exposition of his new conception , Marx ( Marx and Engels , 1845–6 ) indicated four stages of development in the division of labour and the forms of property , in European societies , from tribal property to the communal and state property of antiquity , then to feudal or estates property , and finally to modern capitalist property . |
| 12 | The resistance then to black families adopting makes it likely that successful selections in the 1960s and 1970s depended heavily on identification and involvement with white society , with the neighbourhood , the school and friends being predominantly white . |
| 13 | erm I think there was , there was erm , they definitely made the decision by then to sacred cow and they ca n't harm the middle peasants |
| 14 | They were taken to Athens , then to Southern Greece as the Germans advanced . |
| 15 | He decided then to brazen it out . |
| 16 | What we and Holyfield do know is that Bowe offers a safer route , if not to heavyweight immortality then to respectful acceptance by his peers for his efforts inside the ring , in line with the respect his quiet dignity commands outside it . |
| 17 | Over the past 15 years or so it has spread through Russia and then to Western Europe . |
| 18 | Most of the antagonism between the archbishop and the king in 1279–81 had centred on those personnel indispensable then to effective royal government , the king 's clerks . |
| 19 | The centre will have a number of machines such as IBM RS/6000 , AS/400 and PS/55 linked to Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co workstations under Ethernet , and then to personal computers such as the top-selling NEC Corp 9800 under a Token Ring network . |
| 20 | ( If more volume really were needed then the direct outputs could be fed to a stereo power amp and then to additional speakers , but I 'm sure Marshall have aimed the S80 at a specific player who would find its volume adequate and who , if he or she needed more , would probably upgrade to a more powerful Marshall product . ) |
| 21 | I remember sending far more callers on then to general befriending and support organizations ( of which far more existed ) and fewer to specialist social groups and youth groups ( which have blossomed since ) . |
| 22 | The giggling was usual enough , but the quality of it was not normal , and it augmented itself to laughter that was even more hysterical , then to delirious hics , and jeering shouts . |
| 23 | And Casaubon says of his left-wing , bar-propping days in the early Seventies , ‘ I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to 12-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt . ’ |
| 24 | Copper wire gives way to copper cables , then to fiber-optic cables . |
| 25 | If we can move on then to potential net variations . |
| 26 | However , reality intrudes on such constructions , as indicated by the gradual widening of the category ‘ inner city ’ to refer also to ‘ outer estates ’ and then to whole cities , like Bradford ; in some cases it is even used as a code for whole regions of deprivation in conjunction with that other metaphor , the North-South divide . |
| 27 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 28 | They were first introduced to me when I was 14 by friends who were 16 , 17 , 18 , who at that time were going to Art College and they introduced me as it was then to five-bob deals of black and stuff like that , y'know . |
| 29 | Gradually the burden was extended from the ports to the whole of the coastal shires , and then to inland towns and counties . |
| 30 | The approach of the police to the investigation of rape cases has been subject to much criticism — and then to considerable improvement — and it seems quite possible that these improvements , together with the advent of rape-crisis centres and victim-support facilities , have led more women to report rapes than did so formerly . |