Example sentences of "then it [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 From the UK 's viewpoint , the time was right in 1949 as by then it had the productive capacity to take advantage of the added price competitiveness in dollar markets which devaluation would provide , while needing to rely less heavily on imports from those areas .
2 Yeah but then it split the bloody pairs all in bits .
3 But then it requires a fair amount of imagination to picture this place without seeing it .
4 Then it became a residential nursery before the social services took it over five years ago . ’
5 So before that it was a National Song , and then it became a National Anthem , eighteen fifty-two , before your time , I should think , eighteen fifty-two .
6 But when I joined the Velvet Underground , then it became a little bit more subliminal .
7 It started out as a little ripple in the sea then it became an enormous wave it rose into the air then smashed against the breaker , the breaker broke into two .
8 Then it became the only way to work : shut mother out , shut out her demands , her outrages , concentrate , work .
9 Then it installed a common reporting system .
10 Seven minutes before the interval Duncan Ferguson smashed a header against the crossbar as the home side piled on the pressure , then it took a diving header from Grant Tierney to take a David Robertson cross off Mark Hateley 's toe .
11 It is our feeling that the council needs to be encouraged to take that attitude because if we have a change of policy as the District Council are asking , so that the number of sites released from industrial use is compensated by new green field sites being allocated , then it seems a little bit like a blank cheque to us and we should like to see a firmer control on the amount of land that is lost to development and in seeing that firmer control we 'd like to put pressure on the District Council by not offering them compensation
12 Crossing the Ouse over the Cosgrove Aqueduct , the canal climbs to Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire , now the home of the National Waterways Museum , through Blisworth Tunnel and more locks ; then it leaves the Grand Junction system at Norton , climbing at Watford to the summit level plateau , 413.5 feet above sea level , before dropping suddenly at Foxton .
13 Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party .
14 Not only does tephrachronology enable a far-flung ash to be uniquely identified , but if the ash can be independently dated at any single locality by isotopic methods , then it provides a firm foundation on which to build the history of a volcano .
15 ‘ If you are delayed , for whatever reason , from doing the above , then it causes a knock-on delay throughout the whole system .
16 If reality is an illusion that we create — no more ‘ real ’ than Middle Earth or Valhalla — then it raises an important question .
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