Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] then the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Authoritative , expecting obedience , quick and then the slow smile . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a left and then the right cut in so I had to straighten out . |
| 3 | Ideally speaking , one of the electrodes should be at a site where no activity occurs at all and then the amplified signal would represent the total activity at the area of interest ; in practice this state of affairs is difficult to achieve since no site is entirely free from underlying neural activity . |
| 4 | It is true that the Whigs did their best to exploit the Jacobite " bogey " , and their demands for an oath requiring peers , MPs and office-holders to abjure allegiance to James II and then the Old Pretender caused some embarrassment to those Tories who had only been prepared to recognise William as de facto King . |
| 5 | Ah well sure but then the whole lot goes , but , but , but , but , but this was , this was the document , I mean the way this was put forward , this is going to last us through into the foreseeable future . |
| 6 | We give it a drink of water when it 's thirsty and then the tiny flower begins to grow . ’ |
| 7 | At that moment , I heard the door of the room open and then the angry voice of Duke Michael . |
| 8 | Some backward tribes inhabited the remoter mountains and jungles but the main population was of the same race ; today they are known as Vietnamese but then the outside world knew them as Annamites or Annamese . |
| 9 | F five , now all of these you 've got to increase e something by something there so you 've got to change each of those percentages you 've got to think of it as added to a hundred and then the decimal equivalent . |
| 10 | It seemed a long moment while they remained thus immobile and then the young woman put her head and shoulders down and rushed like an eight-year-old , knees doubling up and arms pounding . |
| 11 | I remember in eighty four erm there 'd been a general election in eighty three erm there 'd been one third elections in Harlow in , in , in erm i i i in eighty three , there was er a gen the general election and another system of election by thirds in eighty four and then the European election being told by one el elderly lady that there were too many bleeding elections and therefore she was n't gon na vote . |
| 12 | The arguments given in favour is that we vote for the wise and then the wise go on to make a proper final decision about who 's best . |