Example sentences of "then to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 2 | The true story of a major league baseball star who went from the street corner to stardom and then to armed robbery but is saved from destruction by a one in a million chance . |
| 3 | Spathiphyllum wallisii , the peace lily , is a most elegant houseplant , with glossy green lance-shaped leaves and fragrant arum lily-like flowers of the purest white , turning to cream then to the palest green with age . |
| 4 | And then to Dionne 's for a late night supper . |
| 5 | He enjoys his food and wine , but disallows its enjoyment to distort the image which is important chiefly to himself , and then to his public . |
| 6 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 7 | She smiled , turning her head first to one side , then to the other so that they could all see the smile . |
| 8 | This will lead on to a discussion of an action-based theory of mentality , the theory developed by the Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget , and then to some discussion of mental development itself . |
| 9 | When the 20-stroke rally has been attained , increase the target to 30 , then to 40 and so on , but keep it realistic . |
| 10 | One half has then to be turned over before the two halves are trimmed and married up . |
| 11 | ANZ McCaughan 's Alastair Irvine expects dramatic profit progress from £1.8m to £8.4m in the year just ended and then to £12m this year . |
| 12 | If either had applied promptly , the appellant would have brought into the action at an earlier stage and the defendant would , in all probability , have been forced to give consideration then to the making of a claim to contribution in respect of his liability , if proved , to the plaintiff . |
| 13 | He is now based in Bradford , birthplace of his manager , Tom Moran , who moved in the Sixties first to Nigeria and then to Thailand as an engineer . |
| 14 | And Casaubon says of his left-wing , bar-propping days in the early Seventies , ‘ I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to 12-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt . ’ |
| 15 | Fine town houses of the eighteenth century , some of them now embassies , give way slowly to the more compact residences of the nineteenth , then to the woods and then the seaside suburb of Scheveningen . |
| 16 | Turning now to middle levels of cultural control , in this case to the Smolensk guberniia offices and then to Roslavl' , our chosen locality , it is clear that fresh unorthodoxies were apt to creep in below and beyond those emanating from private central sources . |
| 17 | The meaning of the October Revolution was then to be explained to anyone who bothered to turn up . |
| 18 | The Germans evacuated him to Athens then to Salonika . |
| 19 | If somebody can manoeuvre your tape to the receptionist , who gets it to the secretary and then to the A&R person , it has to help your chances . |
| 20 | Burbank 's ‘ descending ’ leads to ‘ fell ’ and passes ‘ under sea ’ to a divine explanation of events and then to the mythological splendour of the ascent of the horses of the dawn ( a little sabotaged by the questionable diction of ‘ Beat up ’ ) . |
| 21 | For several hours we would be transported via the newsreel to the exotic East , where American soldiers were valiantly fighting the red , or was it yellow peril , and then to the Wild West , where Hoot Gibson or Eddy Dean would be showing cattle rustlers or unfriendly Indians ‘ what America stood for ’ . |
| 22 | In particular , essentialist conceptions of the self which took effective hold only in the Enlightenment , then to be subsequently developed within ( for instance ) Romanticism and modernism , have been retrospectively read into the early modern period . |
| 23 | I took it to a couple of shops who just were n't interested and then to Macaris who seemed to be interested in buying it but who were being a bit funny about it to me . |
| 24 | In another it sold a part of the whole enterprise by converting the public corporation into Companies Act companies and selling half of the shares : it did this , for example , by reducing its stock in BP from 51 to 46 per cent in 1979 , then to 39 per cent in 1981 , and again to 31.7 per cent in 1984 . |
| 25 | Then to her final and total humiliation Phoebe found that she was actually having a good time ; she was enjoying her mother and her mother 's easy authority and charm . |
| 26 | The economic climate in Britain was very different then to what it is today . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If you follow it along from the historical site it leads you to a perfect waterfall , and then to a point where flat grass lies between the vertical gorge sides . |
| 29 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 30 | Callinicos mordantly comments on the descent ‘ from revolutionary groupuscule to single-issue campaigns and then to social democracy ’ . |