Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] then [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ball then waits at the bowler 's end of the pitch until the reset button switch , S3 , on pin 4 of the IC3 is operated ; taking pin 4 high and then resets the flipflop and pin 13 of IC2 goes low , enabling the clock again to run the wicket sequence from D1 to D10 . |
| 2 | First raise interest rates to r 2 and then manipulate the money supply to reduce it to Q 2 . |
| 3 | Today a car manufacturer might make engines in one country , steering wheels in another and then assemble the car in a third . |
| 4 | It would be easier to plant the tuber first , in a pot consisting of the above mentioned medium and then to place the pot in a shallow tank . |
| 5 | As already stated , the reason for the retention is the exquisite pain associated with passing urine , and the best way of solving the problem is to apply some local anaesthetic ointment until the vulva and external genitalia are completely numb and then sit the patient in a warm bath until urine has been passed . |
| 6 | He warned : ‘ In politics you should decide what is right and then decide the presentation not the other way around . |
| 7 | She 'd have let him get in as deep as possible and then started the pressure … |
| 8 | The relic there was credited with making barren women pregnant and then relieving the pain of parturition . |
| 9 | The East Lothian man took the third set 7-1 , came from 1-4 down to take the next 7-4 and then opened the decider with three singles . |
| 10 | You will sometimes be asked to er look at something like that and then put the time signature in . |
| 11 | A starter of courgette and wild mushroom flan is made by cooking potatoes , leeks and courgettes until soft and then squeezing the puree dry . |
| 12 | Each of these advances in ‘ unjust ’ aggression at the expense of its opposite and then pays the penalty , retreating before the counter-attack of the latter , the object of the whole cycle being to maintain the balance of justice . |
| 13 | The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change . |
| 14 | This is a good ploy to get the children to shout loud but then to contain the noise within the call . |
| 15 | John Taylor , Curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum and Nicholas Reeves , formerly at the B.M. and now Honorary Curator of the present Earl of Carnarvon 's Egyptian collection at Highclere Castle , have brought together objects and documents that trace Howard Carter 's Egyptian career up to 1922 and then follow the archaeologist into his retirement as consultant and dealer and finally death in 1939 . |
| 16 | In Europe the ravages of war had to be made good and then came the enlargement of universities , government institutes , and industrial establishments . |
| 17 | The Model Forms of Rent Review Clause contain a provision entitling the other party to pay the expert 's fees in full and then reclaim the balance from the non-paying party as a debt payable on demand . |
| 18 | He reached up , took the weight of the body and lifted it higher and then wrenched the material of the tunic from the barbs of the wire . |
| 19 | So I suggest you actually copy the first three notes of bar fifteen and then put the rest in correctly . |
| 20 | At this point , technique becomes personal preference : you can either make the cut in the stock first and then prepare the bud for insertion , or prepare the bud , put it into your mouth ( handle protruding ) to keep the cut surface wet , make the stock cut and slip the bud in straight away . |
| 21 | They moved slowly , effortlessly , stroking her breasts with feather-light touches at first and then deepening the pressure as her flesh burned hotly under his touch . |
| 22 | Oh I thought I had to get the estate agent first and then get the space . |
| 23 | There is much casual evidence that , during the stock market crash in October 1987 , the futures market crashed first and then dragged the spot market down . |
| 24 | If a decision is made to abandon the launch at height , it is safer to release first and then to lower the nose , as this prevents the risk of the cable parachute opening and flying up over the aircraft . |
| 25 | It is not hard to see how permission can be conceived as something which throws the action permitted into the future : one generally gets permission first and then performs the action permitted after . |
| 26 | Just one and then do the tan backwards . |
| 27 | Using the cursor key move down to nineteen , the observation for nineteen forty right when you 've done that type the letter one and then press the return key , right , and you 'll see that the observation is changed , right , from zero to one . |
| 28 | Same and then bring the car back and we 'll go and have some fish and chips . |
| 29 | With a beach start everyone is allocated a position on a short line on the beach , the race organiser checks everyone is ready and then signals the start . |