Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [conj] then " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much to the consternation of the operators , Humphrey 's shabby figure would appear and then disappear into high-speed machinery . |
| 2 | The blisters will itch and then start to dry up forming crusts or scabs which will then disappear . |
| 3 | The second principle : ‘ the system for quality is prevention ’ involves considering where errors could occur and then taking action to prevent them . |
| 4 | Within these coastal poleniers an enormous amount of sea ice could form and then is removed to the north dumping enormous amounts of salt into the shelf water making it very dense and setting up the stage for the deep sinking associated with Antarctic . |
| 5 | If one believes that the universe will expand and then contract again , as the no boundary proposal seems to imply , this becomes a question of why we should be in the expanding phase rather than the contracting phase . |
| 6 | In the beginnings of this second stanza , the poet is describing all the wonderful things the sun can do but then goes on to say that all these great wonders are completely forgotten when the sun can not even rejuvenate a man whose body is still warm and almost living . |
| 7 | Here Cornelius fed the motor car with the best petrol that money could buy and then took himself up to the restaurant to join Tuppe . |
| 8 | Collect patterns , take them back and the head used to pick and then we used to have to go and buy what they wanted you see , the amount of material they wanted . |
| 9 | She would have to find an envelope and buy a stamp ( where was the post office ? ) and post the letter and then a day would pass and then Mrs Rundle would take out her spectacles to read the letter in some new kitchen , with a refrigerator and a stove with automatic oven-control and an eye-level grill and gleaming plastic working surfaces and an electric blender and an electric coffee-mill , probably . |
| 10 | If you could get me a quote I shall see what D I Y I can do and then find out how much it 's going to cost me to buy a new |
| 11 | David Newbegin , Durham County Council director of the environment , said : ‘ If we do n't put the message across to the heavy goods drivers that they must use alternative routes , the bridge will deteriorate and then no-one will be able to use it . ’ |
| 12 | Like Brocklehurst coming in and and penny-pinching about what the girls should have and then his wife and daughters come in dressed in velvets and furs and so on . |
| 13 | Your temper will alter and then … |
| 14 | HOUSE prices will stabilise and then pick up towards the end of the year , say estate agents and property analysts . |
| 15 | The galaxies may continue to recede from each other but , under the influence of the Universe 's own gravity , begin to slow down and then start to come towards each other again — in exactly the same way , and for exactly the same reason , that a ball thrown into the air will slow and then return to the ground . |
| 16 | There 's a latency between the primary changing and the secondary data changing since the primary will change and then we replicate across the network to each secondary location . |
| 17 | Allen thought that if they were delayed long enough the Friar would return and then something might be done … unless it was the Friar who had betrayed them . |
| 18 | ‘ In pregnancies as far along as yours , one 's womb will expand and then contract after the termination , causing some pain and discomfort . |
| 19 | It is only if a strike remains in the news for a long period that anything of its history or underlying causes will emerge and then only in the ‘ quality ’ press , rarely on television or in the tabloid newspapers where most people obtain their information . |
| 20 | If a cloud of gas is released into a potential , the cloud will shear and then settle onto closed orbits , because collisions between parcels of gas tend to dissipate energy of libration around these orbits . |
| 21 | Also , this form of search is only possible when the searcher can generate and then retract states , or store several states simultaneously , so it is not suitable with irreversible operators . |
| 22 | It rarely blinked , but sometimes the lids would close and then reopen , as if consciousness were slowly drifting away . |
| 23 | The attitude and commitment shown against the Aussies will return and then you 'll see a pack once again with all the old Irish fire and passion , which has made moderate ( on paper ) teams look like world-beaters . |
| 24 | The weakness of the tidal interaction with the Sun may mean that even after 4600 Ma synchronous rotation is yet to be achieved , and that in the distant future the retrograde rotation will cease and then the requisite slow prograde rotation will build up . |