Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] then a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The pelvic floor needs to be free for the voice to be free and then a voice has both highs and lows .
2 Three young men with loop and stud earrings in one ear ( the lad on the Caledonian Canal fishing boat was not as individual as I had thought ) had three beefburgers and a pie each and then a chocolate KitKat with their tea .
3 And then it was the cu , we 'd payed that and then a couple of weeks after it was the phone and then it was the gas !
4 The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold .
5 The least able sailors first and then a minute later the next group start and so on , finishing with the best sailors who often have a handicap of 10 minutes on a 25-minute race .
6 Not , however , a balanced diet made up of a bit of one and then a bit of the other , but an integration between the two .
7 From his earliest experience of Parliament , where he sat , as a commoner and then a peer , from 1689 until his death ( with one short interval in 1698–9 ) , he ‘ always made an agreeable figure ’ without ever establishing a reputation as an orator .
8 Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’
9 The engine capacity was reduced even further , to 1½ litres in 1926 but then a Formula Libre , with no engine size legislation , came into force in 1928 .
10 Letters A-F could be paired with the symbols in Fig. 5.4 and then a string of random letters , say BCEFADDB etc , would be required to be coded by use of the relevant symbol .
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