Example sentences of "[conj] then to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The pressure only comes off and then to a degree , not totally when you qualify for the World Cup , ’ he said as the squad transferred to Detroit . |
| 2 | A horse naturally shifts from a walk to a trot , and then to a gallop , Taylor 's team found , at the speed where each pace begins to cost it more than the minimum amount of oxygen . |
| 3 | Signals are passed from the recorder to the playback controller and then to a stereo ready monitor . |
| 4 | Defries pointed to the winged creatures spiralling down towards them , and then to a contingent of androids shuffling along the girder . |
| 5 | In each of these contexts — HMI reports , APU exercises or national reading surveys — to move from national assessment to a local authority assessment and then to a school 's performance ( summed up in the achievement of its individual pupils ) provided a method of finding out whether , in some of the measurable parts of schools ' work , matters were standing still or edging forward . |
| 6 | From Thomas Jones , who had been so frightened by Thelwall 's oratory , stories concerning the ‘ emigrant family ’ at Alfoxden passed first to Charles Mogg — a former servant at the house — and then to a cook in the household of Dr Daniel Lysons of Bath . |
| 7 | It had happened before — a surge in mortgage lending , which led first to a boom and then to a bust . |
| 8 | Carella had followed the man to a chemist 's shop in Piazzale della Radio and then to a bus stop . |
| 9 | Having steered Arsenal to a Cup victory and then to a record Championship , Chapman was at the pinnacle of his career . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We moved to another flat and then to a maisonette on the same estate . |
| 12 | Stolen early on in the Revolution , the Regent diamond was recovered by the French Adjutant-General and pawned first to a German banker and then to a Dutchman to secure loans . |
| 13 | With this broad theme in mind we turn to the subject of International Relations and then to an outline of the book . |
| 14 | He took me to lunch at a discreetly ill-lit restaurant and then to an hotel on the Ile St Louis , where we passed two hours of the afternoon gratifying his fantasies . |
| 15 | During the next twelve months Alfonso entrusted the premiership first to another general , Berenguer , and then to an admiral , Aznar , each governing without parliamentary restraint . |
| 16 | Conceptual arguments in favour of employment deconcentration can be traced originally to the need to decant industry from over-congested conurbations to adjacent market towns ( Woods , 1968 ) and then to an acceptance that the extreme population concentrations of older industrial societies was neither economically necessary or inevitable ( Commins , 1978 ) . |