Example sentences of "[conj] then [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICI Chlor-Chemicals takes salt solution from its brine fields and turns it first into chlorine and then into a host of downstream products . |
| 2 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
| 3 | And then towards the end of his life when he was already ill , he had one last hope to cling to . |
| 4 | This fall in oil production jolted the process of economic management , particularly since the leadership had become accustomed to a high level of revenues after the OPEC price increases , first during the campaign to this end in the early 1970s and then as a by-product of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 5 | Gold was certainly used as a decorative inlay for bronzes as early as Shang times , but precious metals only began to be highly valued in China comparatively late and then as an outcome of influence from inner Asia and the west . |
| 6 | Other American relatives came in August and then at the beginning of September he went to Switzerland again . |
| 7 | He later became Medical Officer at the Board of Education and then at the Ministry of Health , pioneering school medical inspection and education for motherhood . |
| 8 | The woman did n't remove her arms from the curd , only nodded at her son and then at the bucket of peelings . |
| 9 | He was educated in Vienna , at the Maria Therese Academy and then at the Institute of Graphic Arts . |
| 10 | Not least was the king 's promotion to colonel of one of the most notoriously renegade local gentry , Thomas Lansford of East Hoathly , who had been fined £9000 and obliged to flee abroad after shooting firstly at the deer and then at the person of Sir Thomas Pelham . |
| 11 | And then at the chaos of the vault . |
| 12 | Their heroic resistance first on the Bataan peninsula and then at the fortress of Corregidor gave the Western Allies a breathing space , but on 6 May the Philippines had to be surrendered . |
| 13 | He was educated at schools in Rochester and privately at home , and then at the age of sixteen became apprenticed to his uncle , a chemist and druggist in Bristol . |
| 14 | Clelia had provided help , instantly , by holding the baby , and looking after it , and changing , with increasing expertise , its nappy , and then at the end of the day she had invited Martin and his child home . |
| 15 | That may be so ; but on the other hand , if the plaintiff 's contention is correct , the solicitor may abstain from delivering his bill for 20 years , and then at the end of that time he may deliver it and sue after the expiration of a month from its delivery . |
| 16 | And then at the end of the day not everybody has even friends or neighbours that they 'd want to impose on ? |
| 17 | Once you 've got rid of some of it , why not take another bit , and then at the end of the day let's close the whole damn thing and save everybody a lot of money . |
| 18 | And then at the end of the three years you were either invited to stay an , an extra year or s you were , you were sort of er you had an invitation from some other circuit . |
| 19 | Patients had rectal dialysis at baseline and then at the end of the course of radiotherapy . |
| 20 | And then at the side of the copper there was a gas stove , and there was some shelves where we used to put silver spoons . |
| 21 | In two days at Snetterton , first in the company of Benetton 's Formula One driver Martin Brundle and then at the wheel of the Snetterton school 's racing cars , I found that the limits of my own prudence , dependability and , even , sanity were disturbingly slim . |
| 22 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 23 | She found herself telling him about the Vermeer she had been painstakingly copying , and then with a shudder of its destruction . |
| 24 | Once he had cleared the body , the master embalmer rinsed it through , first with palm wine , and then with a solution of coriander . |
| 25 | And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside . |
| 26 | ‘ Very well , thank you , ’ she replied politely and then with a trace of irony in her voice , added , ‘ I finished Buddenbrooks and walked only in the garden . |
| 27 | Mr Shillington , originally Anglican , became friendly , first with some Moravians , and then with a group of Methodists in Country Antrim . |
| 28 | The child should get up , go to the lavatory to finish urinating , and then with the help of the parents change the bed and reset the alarm . |
| 29 | What has been meant by full social and economic membership of the community was developed earlier this century , first with the national insurance reforms of the 1906 Liberal Government , and then with the development of these policies , together with the commitment to full employment of the immediate post-war era . |
| 30 | In the early 1980s NACAB set out to address this issue through a major Classification Research Project , first in collaboration with the British Library , and then with the Department of Trade and Industry . |