Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] then the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suggest several reasons why first this town and then the whole conurbation have grown in size ? |
| 2 | I know how context influences the effects of alcohol and realise this was a highly artificial situation , but it was still difficult to ignore the terrible predictability of the road to drunkenness : its fixed stages — a brief and seductive period of social effervescence and then the rapid departure of self-consciousness and the ugly appearance of righteousness . |
| 3 | On the broader issue of Britain 's minimal success — despite two successive triumphs against the rankings in the Maureen Connolly Trophy , at the Queen 's Club , London , and at Dallas — the captain spreads her hands , searching one empty base-line and then the other for the elusive answer . |
| 4 | On the broader issue of Britain 's minimal success — despite two successive triumphs against the rankings in the Maureen Connolly Trophy , at the Queen 's Club , London , and at Dallas — the captain spreads her hands , searching one empty base-line and then the other for the elusive answer . |
| 5 | But because of the special circumstances of York we 've got to first define and refine the area of search to a specific corridor and then the other locational criteria are just a guidance , first we take the proposals forward to the local plan stage . |
| 6 | That 's actually a times , multiply , so what you do is that N times that bracket times N times that bracket and then the whole lot is square rooted I 'll come on to that shortly Another way of thinking about erm the product moment correlation is that what it 's doing , it 's putting the line of best bet through the data . |
| 7 | After you have added half the oil put in the remaining vinegar and then the remaining oil . |
| 8 | As soon as he got his hands on them he cut the sleeves off the grey dress and adapted those of the white one , then stripped off , and donned first the white dress and then the grey one as a sort of sleeveless cowl of a suitably penitential colour and finally the hood and " thus , as far as was then possible to him , he contrived a confused likeness to a hermit " . |
| 9 | They could hear his rapid speech and then the fat shepherdess 's delighted scream of laughter . |
| 10 | Some Arabs in a tent gave them a little water and then the exhausted men finally stumbled into an outpost of the King 's Dragoon Guards . |
| 11 | Forged into an irresistible revolutionary force by its vanguard party , the proletariat was destined to carry through first the bourgeois-democratic revolution and then the socialist revolution . |
| 12 | And read the please six and visions from Viscuss The first one is going to be given a bit more time and then the other five are going to brief . |
| 13 | A gentle step into a short sling and then the real miracle , a tiny hole , just right for my ancient ladle handle , revived from the days when Drummond briefly made them almost respectable . |
| 14 | With an effort , he heaved up first one foot and then the other and moved back onto firmer ground . |
| 15 | and you bring it down , and if there 's anything wrong you 'll feel it slowly so that it may click , you do one side and then the other , right the old fashioned treatment for erm dislocated hip was double nappies , er do you know what that ? |
| 16 | ‘ I look at your face , and I look at one eye and then the other and then your nose , but I ca n't seem to look at your face altogether , all at once , because the sight of your face is causing me pain . ’ |
| 17 | What I 've been doing is changing the bottom three one day and then the high ones the next ; I never change them all at once because , even though you stretch them in , it still seems the bridge gets unstable . ’ |
| 18 | It 's very helpful for both sides of the community , I 'm sure , to have contact like this and I think that the programme is usually very well devised in that you do have something either of mutual interest or one area and then the other area so that we can be informed about erm what 's going on in the other section of the community . |
| 19 | And he would take one ear and then the other ear and pull it through the slots on the bonnet . |
| 20 | Rohmer rose to his knees , lifting first one hand and then the other in front of his face to see if the material of his gloves was broken . |
| 21 | Then the alley curved sharply , first one way and then the other , and it seemed to Frankie that he would be trapped in that sinister place for ever . |
| 22 | He , as a rag doll , contorted , controlled by invisible strings , jerked one way and then the other and the sewer filled up high , not a half-foot from the top of the walls , so that his tumble , when he fell into the swamp , it was more a plop than a splash . |
| 23 | Circle your hips slowly and rhythmically , first one way and then the other |
| 24 | She said it had got off to a slow start but then the true issues had been recognised . |
| 25 | The next morning , Aj had said , he 'd be down with six tons of red shale and then the real work would begin . |
| 26 | After obtaining first the engaged tone and then the unobtainable tone — that would not happen now after privatisation — the caller was finally connected to an answerphone which said : ‘ This is Tim and Bridie Wallis 's number . |
| 27 | Decorative vaulting had been used to effect in England , but in Parler 's imaginative hands , first the crazy vault and then the net vault , reached their full potential . |
| 28 | The thing is what I 've got to say is , they live in , in a different world from us , the six forces in the er our region and Derbyshire are er second to us , a distant second and then the other four have got no problems compared with us |
| 29 | Then cos you had er three warnings you got five minutes before and er then you had a the erm final warning and then the blasting and the they give you the all clear . |
| 30 | And what I 'm saying is we 're just reversing the we 're going to do the attendance report , financial report and then the chief executive 's report because there are a number of issues which I 'd like to raise within that . |