Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] then [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 His fingers felt the division between the old floorboards and then the cross-cut which marked the edge of a trapdoor .
2 Dave served in both the New Zealand and British Armies and then the enforcement branch of the New Zealand Wildlife Service .
3 And there were times indeed , I think , that the effect of the very strong resistance to public-expenditure cuts and then the promulgation of an alternative economic strategy , which I myself was much concerned with , did have a very considerable effect .
4 There were whoops and cheers , mock kissing attempts , challenges to put names on the masked faces and then a song .
5 A broad constitutional framework is created , with a limited number of mandatory requirements , some optional features and then a range of matters on which the framework operates unless the related contract specifically provides otherwise .
6 A delicious meal — pasta ( layers of lasagna ) with broccoli and cheese sauce to start , roast meat , salad , then fantastic local neapolitan sausages and then a gateau thing ( on which I ‘ passed ’ ) and fruit and cheese ( on which I also ‘ passed ’ ) .
7 There was an awkward pause during which it became clear that this hint was going to be ignored like all previous ones and then the Guider realised that the pause was going to continue .
8 Through the half-open door , into the dry , shrivelling heat of the great , evil-smelling room , there appeared branchlike shapes and then a fall of blood-stained , leaflike hair .
9 I recorded three full tapes and then the head was slurry
10 At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's .
11 She repeated the exercise several times until she got two identical measurements and then the customer went home , satisfied and cured .
12 Mud is apt to be thrown up by aircraft wheels in landing and taking off , muddy water enters the aircraft through drainage holes and all sorts of other orifices and then the water drains out , leaving a film of wet mud .
13 Well you see the , the , the great Soviet experiment is a good example is n't it of , of a whole civilization was based on a o o on a kind of great social experiment was based on ultimately on erm unsound principles and then a part of the scenes .
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