Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] then [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another method reverses the direction of flow , with the water moving upwards through coarse and then fine material . |
| 2 | At some later point in time in this scenario ( especially with the mechanical and then electronic production and reproduction of representations ) , cultural facts would become so pervasive that they would come to challenge ‘ natural facts ’ for hegemony , and would even to some extent constitute the norm . |
| 3 | Full economic and then political union can not be far behind . |
| 4 | That and then front cover strip down the bottom here that one there is six hundred pounds . |
| 5 | A long struggle by writers to establish first domestic and then international copyright resulted not only in a new concept of literary property but new , or at least amended , social relationships of writers . |
| 6 | On the face of it there are more contrasts than resemblances between , for example , the brand of empirical and then linguistic philosophy which has predominated in England in recent decades , the existentialist thought which has led the way in western Europe , and the critical reflection on human history and society on a broadly Marxist basis which has naturally held sway in communist countries , but more recently come more to the fore in the west as well . |
| 7 | Originally Romanesque , like so many houses around this square , but later added to in Gothic and then early Renaissance style at the beginning of the 16C . |
| 8 | The night was slashed with alternate blue and then white light , and the street hung in that eerie awesome silence which accompanies the sudden stop of alarm bells . |
| 9 | While the British were doing this , they learnt enough about the political situation in Bengal to realize that in a few months of confused and contradictory policy ( of which his aggressive and then conciliatory treatment of the East India Company was only one example ) Siraj-ud-Daula had lost the confidence of the Hindu merchants and bankers who ran the financial system and of some of the Muslims who ran the Bengal army . |
| 10 | Consequently the policy of expanding and then contracting demand , which came to be known as ‘ stop — go ’ , was a result of the direct conflict between the employment and balance of payments objectives since control over the level of aggregate demand was relied upon in order to achieve both goals . |