Example sentences of "then [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However it was then pointed out by a biologist that tiny movements by the plant could explain these variations . |
| 2 | Under a local anaesthetic , a whisk-like device will be passed down a fine tube into the gall bladder and rotated at 30,000 revolutions a minute , mincing the gallstones to a paste which is then sucked out through a tube . |
| 3 | He began to talk again about Stephen handing him the wedding-dress , how he 'd walked away with it and had then sat down on a seat on the promenade , not wanting to go on with his act any more . |
| 4 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |
| 5 | The order was then carried out by a seaman , and an seven survivors were killed . |
| 6 | The element is first placed on the stripping machine where the contaminated cladding is cut away , then dropped on to a conveyor belt to be stored under water in concrete storage silos . |
| 7 | Other strings have anything from seven to many hundreds of micro-fibres which are then twisted together in a way similar to natural gut . |
| 8 | Based on the seven days of creation there are seven days to a week and the Hebrew calendar is then made up of a cycle of seven years ( each seventh year being the Sabbatical year ) and seven cycles of seven years ( with each fiftieth year being a year of Jubilee ) . |
| 9 | When the setting was finished , the whole typematter was then locked securely into a metal frame , called a ‘ chase ’ . |
| 10 | The sales then marked up in a Gollop poll . |
| 11 | This data is then stored away in an assembly file . |
| 12 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |
| 13 | That 's been on a real high and then gone down to a low to nothing . |
| 14 | The finished artwork is then printed out on a page printer . |
| 15 | ‘ They have then waited there for a minicab to arrive and take them and their bounty away . |
| 16 | The temporary notes are then kept together in a box , separate from the other files of notes . |
| 17 | The grasses are woven together with cotton to form a mat , which is then bonded on to a paper backing . |
| 18 | If the rent was from non-UK land there will have been no tax charges under general principles although the income may be assessed under TA 1988 , Part XV or TA 1988 , ss739 or 734 or , if it is paid out in an income form to a UK beneficiary , it may be assessed on the beneficiary under Schedule D , Cases IV or V. The position with regard to dividends received by overseas discretionary trusts where the income is then paid out to a beneficiary is complicated because of the way in which the 10 per cent additional rate charge is levied . |
| 19 | In FI , such people are tolerated by some : either because they are good company or because they provide ‘ services ’ , whether these be the producing of Mercedes cars which are then flogged off at a profit or the procuring of girls . |
| 20 | Upper Halling had its own ice cream made at the Black Boy by Jesse Crowhurst and Ernie Pankhurst , this would be made at weekends then loaded on to a hand card and pushed either up to Red Kill or to Birling Bank , where they would sell approx. 5–6 gallons on a Sunday . |