Example sentences of "and then [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derive expressions for the torque needed to hold 0 constant under the following conditions : ( i ) when the plates are connected to a source of constant voltage V ; ( ii ) after the plates have been rotated to their position of maximum capacitance , charged to voltage V , disconnected from the supply and then rotated to a new position . |
| 2 | Currently in a six month appointment a house officer may be attached to one team of consultants for three months and then change to a second team . |
| 3 | To find it , use Beta and Alpha to show the way to 9 Sagittæ and then turn to a little cluster of stars which is actually in Vulpecula ; U Sagittæ lies beyond . |
| 4 | On 19 March that year Crane told Winters that ‘ Williams probably means less to me than to you ’ , and then proceeded to a hesitant account of how he felt about this one of their older contemporaries : |
| 5 | Certainly there was the occasional spectacular apostasy from civilized values , as in the case of Jack Driberg , a Kenya Masai official who went native and then proceeded to a distinguished career as a lecturer in anthropology at Cambridge ; but on the whole the records , in so far as they can be relied on in such matters do not support this view . |
| 6 | They would use incendiary-cum-explosive bombs to disable the aircraft and then retire to a pre-arranged rendezvous point in the desert where they could be picked up by a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ) . |
| 7 | Simon had failed his eleven plus , and then gone to a Catholic school . |
| 8 | Chapter Ten commenced with a brief examination of the economic determinants of consumer demand , and then turned to a detailed analysis of the following behavioural determinants of consumer demand , namely : * individual motivation ; * individual personality ; * culture ; * life-style . |
| 9 | The more normal ‘ indirect ’ system has two water circuits : a primary circuit which is heated in the boiler and then circulates to a heat-exchange unit inside the hot water cylinder before returning to the boiler to be reheated ; and a second circuit which runs from the boiler to the radiators . |
| 10 | They were met at the front door by a delirious spaniel , who clearly had no idea of funeral decorum , and they proceeded into the front room , where Bill Clough switched on a bulging orangey imitation-coal electric fire , and then went to a horrible drinks cabinet — all plastic and flashing lights . |
| 11 | They were held first in police cells in Katmandu for 3 weeks and then transferred to a permanent prison . |
| 12 | Beyond that , the official Libyan theory rested mainly on the proposition that the suitcase containing the bomb had been sent unaccompanied on an Air Malta flight to Frankfurt , where , undetected by Pan Am 's inadequate security arrangements , it was loaded on to a feeder flight to London and then transferred to a third aircraft for the New York leg of the journey . |
| 13 | You know , you do n't go from a , a one-up two-down to a two-bedroomed bung semi-bungalow and then shoot to a four-bedroomed detached . |
| 14 | Cale performs his songs simply , pounding out confident chords from a grand piano and then turning to an acoustic guitar in order to add another shade of grey to his musical palette . |
| 15 | Some students , particularly those from the Indian subcontinent who have been selected for Commonwealth Scholarships , are capable of performing very well at higher degree level , and then returning to an academic career in their own countries . |
| 16 | Remembering that we are here dealing with a community first to exile and then returned to an impoverished and divided land ( i.e. |
| 17 | She backed in a gentle arc to face the open sea , and as Neil gunned the engine she jumped forward and then settled to a smooth , fast pace . |
| 18 | She was also gagged and then subjected to a horrifying rape and torture ordeal in front of her children , he said . |