Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] then " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specific rates of the demand for HE from individuals with particular characteristics — these typically include age , gender and social class — are calculated and then forecasts are made of the future demand from individuals with these characteristics . |
| 2 | You might have ageing parents who you support and god knows how much other outgoings which are hidden and then you have to go down that road and say that you 're going to look at at financial status you 're going to have to say and exactly what are all of your outgoings in and now down going to get real unpleasant intrusion into people 's business . |
| 3 | Both carburettors have been overhauled and then ret up on a crypton machine . |
| 4 | the square roots obtained from all the interest category loan components are totalled and then each individual square root is calculated as a percentage of that total . |
| 5 | ‘ All marked spaces are filled and then motorists exercise their personal ingenuity . |
| 6 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 7 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 8 | All that happens is that the animal waits until the treated garments are discarded and then homes in on some other , more suitable surface . |
| 9 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 10 | Other commands to validate and execute either a search , navigation or trail request are parsed and then sent to the appropriate process . |
| 11 | After the medical , you are interviewed and then a series of group activities follow . |
| 12 | The unfortunate Doctor had been immersed and then lifted out , as he had instructed , for a blister to be applied to his spine . |
| 13 | Although this was an extreme case , it is by no means unique and practically every university teacher who has supervised an undergraduate dissertation will recognize the problem of trying to write a dissertation backwards ; that is to say , taking the data that have already been collected and then trying to find some hypothesis which they can be used to test . |
| 14 | But there are numerous instances which come to my mind of research in which all the problems of analysis were left until the survey had been done and then anything up to , or even over , a year was needed to sort out the tangled mass of answers to vague questions . |
| 15 | One programmer spent a week trying to find out what damage had been done and then putting it right . ’ |
| 16 | Actually it 's easier once you 've been done cos then you have an appreciation of what 's |
| 17 | Under the ‘ classical ’ system company profits are taxed and then any dividends paid out are taxed as unearned income by the recipients at their marginal tax rate . |
| 18 | Weekend orders are collected and then executed , subject to any limit instruction , first thing on Monday . |
| 19 | All the individual fund borrowing requirements are collected and then are matched with the optimal portfolio ( mixing long- and short-term debt , as well as mixing debt and equity holdings ) . |
| 20 | Instead , farmers rely on manure , or green manure ( crops that are grown and then ploughed back into the ground ) , one-off treatments of pyrethrum , sulphur or copper . |
| 21 | Brussels sprouts , summer cabbage , calabrese and leeks can be sown in a seed bed — a nursery area of the vegetable plot where seedlings are grown and then transplanted to rows on the main plot at a later date . |
| 22 | Stick the balls on knitting needles so that you can hold them easily while you 're painting and then stand the knitting needles in a jar so that the heads can dry safely . |
| 23 | Yes , but they 're going and then they 've got them in the ponds , they 've got them all in their ponds , so they 're obviously okay , they 're for ponds so it , I think if we probably get ten , fifteen on the , cos I 'm gon na be so used to seeing them , cos I 'm gon na be ordering those , I 'll order all the carps and you 've got as well |
| 24 | So you 're concentrating on the little bits you 're doing and then you 're |
| 25 | I guess well not really , I erm , I try to make people welcome , and they usually let me know if they 're coming and then I 'm prepared . |
| 26 | Who 'd like to tell me what twenty six will be , remember you 're saying and then the num next number ? |
| 27 | Er I would keep on with those right till they 're finished and then come up towards the end of next week . |
| 28 | You could borrow there stock , is that what you 're thinking and then take back what we did n't sell . |
| 29 | Whether you then sow the seeds in rows , or in patches , or in " stations " — groups spaced several cm ( in ) apart — is up to you ; in any case , some herbs do better sown in boxes or a seedbed , and then transplanted ; others are better sown where they are to grow and then thinned . |
| 30 | The wood of the planks was almost white , but it had been sanded and then varnished with gums and resins until it glistened . |