Example sentences of "[conj] then to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jennie told Katharine to perform a 10m circle in the corner of the school , which helps bend the horse correctly , and then to shoulder-in up the long side . |
| 2 | The suspicion in Graham 's voice turned to puzzlement and then to excitement . |
| 3 | I still watch Elwood Glover 's TV programme at noon … he sure keeps going and has a wonderful following … he is so tactful and pleasant while interviewing anyone , and women flock to his programme … so here I go to watch Elwood … and then to lunch … much love to all . |
| 4 | In vaulting , quadripartite designs spread to tierceron patterns , with intervening ribs as at Exeter Cathedral , and then to lierne vaults as in York Minster ( 468 ) or Gloucester Cathedral choir . |
| 5 | His most successful hero ( and neither word is really suitable , in any case ) is Captain McWhirr of the Nan-Shan , a middle-aged man whose prosaic letters to parents and then to wife , full of comments like ‘ On Christmas Day at 4 p.m. we fell in with some icebergs ’ , bore them into coma . |
| 6 | John Lawlor , a pupil from 1936 onwards , said of himself that he ‘ passed from dislike and hostility to stubborn affection , and then to gratitude for the weekly bout in which no quarter was asked or given ’ . |
| 7 | Parliamentary discussions are not meant to reveal a general will which already exists and then to enshrine it in law , but instead to reflect the conflicts within society and to constitute opinion and judgement as a result of proposal and counterproposal , on information and the asking of questions . |
| 8 | I see myself as one of these animals , and I await with resignation but with confidence the moment when either I live out my life as providence decrees or I die as prescribed , convinced that I shall thus be useful in two ways , first to France and then to humanity . |
| 9 | Try the effect of zooming the lens , first to wide angle and then to telephoto , adjusting the focus in and out on each of these two extreme settings . |
| 10 | Sufficient time needs to be given to listening to the answer and then to prayer and ministry to meet the needs another member has . |
| 11 | The areas chosen for the case studies — in Lombardy and Emilia — are intended to reflect very different patterns of modernisation ; the first , relatively slow and perhaps therefore politically stable ; the second , remarkably rapid and perhaps therefore producing class polarisation and a high level of political militance expressed through the passage from socialism to fascism , and then to communism . |
| 12 | Literally altering your consciousness — without the use of chemicals — these innovative ‘ brain machines ’ can ‘ zap ’ your brainwaves from Beta ( the state we consider ‘ normal ’ ) to Alpha ( the waves produced when we are relaxed ) and then to Theta ( which are produced in sleep ) . |
| 13 | Literally altering your consciousness — without the use of chemicals — these innovative ‘ brain machines ’ can ‘ zap ’ your brainwaves from Beta ( the state we consider ‘ normal ’ ) to Alpha ( the waves produced when we are relaxed ) and then to Theta ( which are produced in sleep ) . |
| 14 | In Britain and Spain the underlying financial weakness of the private railway companies , caused by lack of demand and later by increasing road competition , led first to increasing state intervention and then to nationalization . |
| 15 | They will pump waste water to an existing sewer at Crosby Road South and then to North West Water 's multimillion pound treatment works at Sandon Dock . |
| 16 | If , as I have tried to show , the acquisition of the ego and superego were such important aspects of economic adaptation , first to hunting and then to cultivation , it is clear that the very success of the latter threatened to compromise the psychological foundations on which it was based . |
| 17 | When set to the rhythm first of ska music ( which took the world by storm in the 1950s ) and then to reggae , the resulting musical brew was explosive . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , to Navan , and then to Trim , and then I came back . |
| 19 | There may , of course , have been shorter-term adaptations first to abnormality and then to absence of the cortex on one side . |
| 20 | His trauma after witnessing the effects of the massacre had led progressively to the loss of his job , a slide into alcoholism and then to crime : |
| 21 | The mill was originally converted from fulling to corn and then to silk in 1747 . |
| 22 | Her emotions were so erratic , changing from anger to jealousy in a moment , and then to resentment of James Halden who continued to torment her thoughts . |
| 23 | A keen all-round sportsman , he graduated from cycle and motor-car racing when he began to feel his age and then to speedboat racing . |
| 24 | Other litigation between Condy and A. D. Mitchell , who had joined the firm in 1870 , led at first to estrangement and then to reconstitution of the company as Condy & Mitchell Ltd. , with Mitchell and Henry Bollmann 's eldest son , H. J. Bollmann Condy , as managing directors . |
| 25 | No special methods were adopted to enhance the activity of bacteria oxidizing excreted ammonia ( produced from metabolism of proteins ) first to nitrite and then to nitrate . |
| 26 | Inland the machair grades into mesotrophic grassland and then to fen and swamp communities . |
| 27 | He looked from Silver to Hazel and then to Fiver . |
| 28 | They soon progressed from Christmas to holidays … travel … world events … and then to food , as they laughingly divided the two plump triangles of cake and argued as to which was the nicer . |
| 29 | A member of the Cambridge ‘ Apostles ’ , he was a communist before and during the war but later became more sympathetic , first to anarchism and then to syndicalism . |
| 30 | That is what led Marx to history and then to anthropology as , in the course of his work , he pushed his analyses ever further backwards in the evolution of human society . |