Example sentences of "then [vb past] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nationalised industries ' borrowing as a whole had , in fact , become part of the public sector borrowing requirement and , in order to tighten up the monetary control , all new capital for the electricity industry ( and other public sector industries ) from 1956 was raised directly by the Treasury , and then lent by them to the industry . |
| 2 | The earthworks of the village have always been known : they were recorded by the Ordnance Survey surveyors in the nineteenth century and then re-discovered by Maurice Beresford in the late 1940s . |
| 3 | Baldwin then counterattacked by calling a party meeting — MPs and candidates but no peers — at the Caxton Hall for 24 June . |
| 4 | Mr. Page then applied by way of judicial review for an order quashing the visitor 's decision . |
| 5 | In this capacity Baker submitted biannual reports and advised on legislation , which was elaborated and then codified by the Factories Act of 1878 . |
| 6 | A weird cocktail of fragmented narrative , crazy characters , gross-out eating scenes , bizarre sex ( at one point Singapore is strapped to a bed , given electric shock treatment and then straddled by the squealing daughter while still convulsing ) , this is obscurely related to Otto Preminger 's classic 1944 film noir , Laura . |
| 7 | The nonsmoker breathes ‘ sidestream ’ smoke from the burning tip of the cigarette and ‘ mainstream ’ smoke that has been inhaled and then exhaled by the smoker . |
| 8 | They then celebrated by putting the money towards a dinner-dance . |
| 9 | He believed , for example , that Christ had been conceived in the normal way and then sanctified by God rather than being born of a virgin . |
| 10 | Zak 's intended scene of investigation into Angelica 's murder had been upstaged by the reality of the Lorrimores ' car and then aborted by the long stop at Thunder Bay . |
| 11 | ‘ Look , ’ she then began by saying , ‘ there must be some sort of council accommodation for people like you . |
| 12 | Men and women who are now in their forties and fifties grew up in a society that had been first shocked , then revolutionized by the ‘ revelations ’ of American sex researcher Alfred Kinsey . |
| 13 | He was laid down on brittle pampas grass and then manhandled by the creatures . |
| 14 | It then fell by stages to its present level . |
| 15 | PGE 2 rose after radiotherapy from 0.6 ng.ml - 1 ( 0.60 to 2.4 ) to 1.58 ng.ml - 1 ( median 0.60 to 9.6 ) with a median rise of 0.44 ng.ml - 1 , p=0.038 ) and then fell by -0.48 ng.ml - 1 ( median , range +0.92 to -1.56 , p=0.173 ) ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 16 | I then proceeded by recording a keystroke macro — that is I used the Record option on the Macros section of the Tools menu , typed in the filename BLOCKCNT into the dialog box that appeared and ran through steps needed to perform the task while the macro recorder was on . |
| 17 | We then went by train into the country , and took a taxi to Dr Roylott 's house . |
| 18 | Elections were held in June 1973 but the assembly was first paralysed by the Protestant-led ‘ workers ’ strike' and then prorogued by Parliament . |
| 19 | He also recorded in Lewis a home-remedy which used the roots of nettles boiled in water along with the roots of reeds , then fermented by the addition of yeast which ‘ they find beneficial for the cough ’ . |
| 20 | Suppose the suspect had taken the taxi to get rid of Carella , got out at the hospital to confuse matters further , walked around the comer to the terminus and then continued by bus to his original destination ? |
| 21 | She walked slowly to the door , and then stood by the door and looked at her daughter again . |
| 22 | I had a clerk in St Paul 's write it out , then stood by Aldgate and bribed a royal messenger , carrying the white wand and wearing the royal gold-and-blue surcoat , who was travelling to King 's Lynn , to leave the message with Master Daunbey . |
| 23 | The oscillator output is inverted by gate IC1a and then buffered by transistor TR2 , to illuminate light emitting diode D2 . |