Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] then [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The trade union reforms , the break with the ‘ social partners ’ approach in running the economy , the abolition of a tier of local government , the imposition of far-reaching central government controls over local government finance and policies and then the replacement of household rates by the community charge , and the large-scale privatization , all mark a major departure from the conventions of post-war politics . |
| 3 | They heard the diesel engine , the quick rattle of the wheels on rails and then the caterpillar of carriages that rose above the stone walls , the small windows flashing in the sun as they were quickly drawn across their view and gone . |
| 4 | The erm , the gross borrowings , the dollar is the overwhelming element in , in terms of we have about erm , two hundred and thirty five million of sterling debt , two bond issues and some old loan stocks and then the rest of it , that 's gross debt and , and some of that swaps , you know . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , first larger jennies and then the application of power to them and to the mules took spinning from the cottage through the workshop to the factory where , as we have seen , it became a male employment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As the Community moves towards full monetary union , with narrow band exchange rates and then the adoption of a common currency , social dumping may emerge as a real and acute problem . |
| 9 | ‘ For Christ 's sake , get out ! ’ he roared , and after an interminable second , he heard her footsteps running down the stairs and then the sound of her car on the drive . |
| 10 | We were able to study all stages of the exercise , starting with the preliminary visits of the director and the advisers to the school , followed by the self-evaluation activities , the inspection itself , feedback from the advisers and then the presentation of the report to governors . |
| 11 | No you did n't have you did n't have a finishing hand , you did n't really have a brilliant first two hands and then the pick of the one , two , three bouncer I might I might have been persuaded to play the one , two , three bouncer and hope that that got through but to finish with an ace flush but good . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Here , though , the procedure of the auctioneer was somewhat different , for at first the most attractive girls were auctioned to the highest bidders and then a sort of reverse auction took place in which the unattractive ones were distributed : instead of ascending , the bidding descended until the man prepared to accept the least payment got the girl . |
| 14 | His coalition " national stability government " formed in June had collapsed with the expulsion on Dec. 1 of three Republican Party ministers and then the withdrawal of members of the main opposition Democratic Party ( DP ) . |
| 15 | She had felt most wonderfully the power surging up behind her eyes gushing like a warm fluid inside her skull , and her eyes had become scorching hot , hotter than ever before , and things had come bursting out of her eye-sockets and then the piece of chalk had lifted itself up and had begun to write . |
| 16 | The match looked set to be a close affair when the two neighbours were level pegging after three heats but then a run of four successive 5–1s for the home side virtually settled the issue . |