Example sentences of "[conj] then [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was the use , Colonel Richardson asked himself , what was the use of being such a splendid rector 's wife all these years , and then chucking the whole lot out of the window , for a pig-headed whim ? |
| 2 | There is no point in setting out your case and then sending the only copy to the opposition . |
| 3 | Let us test the combinatory possibilities of adjectives with indefinite pronouns and other similar words , first taking at random phrases composed of an adjective and some specific noun , and then replacing the specific noun in each case by some noun or pronoun with an indefinite meaning . |
| 4 | On the present occasion he was convicted of attempting to rape and then murdering an 81-year-old widow . |
| 5 | The complete task involved lifting a number of panels from their storage racks , loading them on to a jig , clamping them into position , arc welding a seam to join them , and then transferring the welded sub-assembly from the jig to another storage rack so that it could be transported to the next production stage . |
| 6 | Think in terms of putting a one in front of that and then moving a decimal point two places and it 's one point four five . |
| 7 | It seems to be saying that the Queen of Hell , separating from the Sacred Bride/Divine Mother , becoming the Boar , fusing with Adonis , transforming him to Tarquin , and then destroying the Sacred Bride/Divine Mother under the illusion that she is the Queen of Hell , is the perpetuum mobile of the Equation . ’ |
| 8 | He hoped to achieve this by superimposing these mental activities upon the simple reaction time , SRT , and then subtracting the known value of the SRT from the total reaction time to give the duration of this mental activity . |
| 9 | ‘ Funeral 's tomorrow , ’ McDunn says , flicking ash and then inspecting the glowing end of his cigarette . |
| 10 | Its aim was to act as a bluff in the wage negotiations in order to shame the Councils , first into meeting each year , and then setting a respectable wage increase . |
| 11 | Given the existence of an aggregate production function of the form , an expression for the logarithm of output can be obtained by substituting equation ( 5.29 ) into equation ( 5.28 ) and then substituting the resulting equation into the production function . |
| 12 | The research is aimed at identifying middle class fractions in three case study areas ( Gower , Stroud and rural Berkshire ) , and then evaluating the differential impact of these fractions on their local economies . |
| 13 | The second-half saw Ranger 's stand-in keeper , Ally Maxwell at the centre of things — firstly coming out his box in the 60th minute to bring down Gareth Evans — and then producing a marvellous save from Darren Jackson 's header from the resultant free kick . |
| 14 | He had won three of his four races as a two-year-old , including the Grand Criterium at Longchamp , and as a three-year-old had taken the Two Thousand Guineas Trial at Ascot before beating Petingo and Jimmy Reppin in the Two Thousand Guineas itself and then producing a telling burst of speed to win the Derby from Connaught . |
| 15 | Depending upon each plant , where it is planted and how it is supported , this tendency can often be countered by cutting back hard , encouraging the break-out of new growth from the base — and then using a little plant ‘ psychology ’ . |
| 16 | The starting point in the exercise is the determination of the key purpose for the whole occupational area and then using a functional analysis approach to work from the ‘ whole ’ down identifying the competencies required to achieve the key purpose . |
| 17 | Here is conscientious Boris Nikolayevich , completing his graduate dissertation in one month rather than the usual five and then refusing the automatic promotion for which this would normally have qualified him , resolving instead to spend a year laying bricks , mixing concrete and becoming one of the boys . |
| 18 | Sometimes the polyphony is treated in a free manner , voices imitating each other loosely for a time and then taking a free course until imitations begin again . |
| 19 | She could remember someone or something smashing the back of her head , and then taking the high dive into ice-cream country . |
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| 22 | CHAIR HIRE The scheme involves disabled drivers leaving their cars at a site near the town centre and then hiring an electric wheelchair to take them around the shops . |
| 23 | This technique involves washing off the protein residues and then seeking an immunological reaction with commercial anti-sera for different animal species . |
| 24 | But for our last point we had to rely on being half-right about two issues : we rightly predicted a Common Market between the US and Canada — but wrongly thought it would also include Mexico and Venezuela ; and we predicted that unemployment would rise sharply in the West , causing more flexible working patterns — but were over-optimistic about the implications , seeing masses of people returning to school in middle life and then starting a new career . |
| 25 | By briefly touching the metal tip on a germanium crystal , moving the tip to another part of the crystal and then applying a large voltage , they placed a single germanium atom at the new spot . |
| 26 | The general approach to developing a Z-Score model consists of taking samples of failed and solvent companies , computing a large number of financial ratios from their accounts , more than 80 in the case of the models discussed here , and then applying a statistical technique , such as stepwise linear discriminant analysis . |
| 27 | At one time , when I was touring in the theatre , I can remember simply having tea for breakfast and then going the whole day with nothing , then a tiny snack in the evening . |
| 28 | In the mid-1980s , drainage contractors in the Midlands are still moving in on river valleys , starting with the stream itself and then clearing every adjacent hedge and copse as part of the same contract . |
| 29 | This process can be assisted by trying to change the positions of the light source and the surface on which the shadow falls and then observing the changed pattern . |
| 30 | Nigel mentioned that his father had been a teacher in Zambia , and then adopting a humorous intonation , as if to cover himself , he added that some ‘ of these chappies were none too bright ’ . |