Example sentences of "[conj] then [v-ing] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the present occasion he was convicted of attempting to rape and then murdering an 81-year-old widow . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This technique involves washing off the protein residues and then seeking an immunological reaction with commercial anti-sera for different animal species . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | The journey through painful feelings is part of coming to terms with troubled emotions , and then devising a realistic strategy for emotional and social survival and the re-commencement of personal growth . |
| 16 | Is it true that a former DTI Minister , who happens to be the current treasurer of the Conservative party — the noble Lord Beaverbrook — in five months made a profit of £50 million by purchasing and then selling a huge tract of the fragile Guyana rain forest ? |
| 17 | Now four years later I 'm doing British social and economic history , seventeen hundred to the present day , and then listing a whole lot of textile inventions and the flying shuttle and so on , all of which did n't work anyway . ’ |
| 18 | You can exert considerable control in a meeting through concentrated listening and then making a relevant contribution . |
| 19 | Emma looked into her mother 's face , and then making a small movement with her head before turning away and , gazing through the windscreen , she said , ‘ I 'm … |
| 20 | Gamma Cassiopeiæ in the W-shaped northern constellation of Cassiopeia is usually about magnitude 2.2 , but in 1936 it flared up to 1.6 before fading back to below its normal brightness and then making a slow recovery . |
| 21 | Which she totally buggered up by getting us to sing the theme from Aspects Of Love and then making a big speech about the Pope . |
| 22 | Although Big Blue has said that its interest lies in exploiting computer technology and developing digital film ‘ software ’ rather than creating movies , we can not imagine IBM buying half or more of an enterprise and then remaining a passive investor . |
| 23 | He was also charged with forcing the king to bestow the earldom of March upon him in the Salisbury parliament of 1328 and then leading an armed band against the Earl of Lancaster , with procuring the death of the Earl of Rent , fomenting discord between Edward II and Isabella , and other offences which together amounted to a comprehensive indictment of his rule since 1326 , The earls and barons , ‘ the peers of the realm ’ , were asked to give their judgement on these charges and they declared that they were notorious and manifest to all . |
| 24 | You hitchhiking in my rucksack all the way up here without me knowing and then doing a perfect impression of a police loud hailer . ’ |
| 25 | Goodier will be playing a Disraeli Gears record tomorrow and then doing a special session with the band on Wednesday night . |