Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] then [adj] [noun] " 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 | Three day residential and then two days out in the field |
| 3 | ‘ Not that that 's much of a road to speak of , ’ the Brigadier went on , But the family has n't lived there since before the war-there were German and then English soldiers billeted here during the second war … ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I see well er , when you talk about updating er on page thirty one we have there set up at er Mr service charges , service co service parking costs , total and then personal costs total , estimated weekly total , are you saying the rest of the brochure was to remain unchanged and that portion of it would be changed ? |
| 6 | Full economic and then political union can not be far behind . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We used peach shades , moving on to pink and white and then darker crimson and purple . |
| 9 | He seemed to be doing fine and then one night I found him cold and dying . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It , it comes back into it , some , some nights it 's quite good and then other nights it feels all |
| 12 | Two hydroxides so if you just write twice just write O H negative and then another O H negative . |
| 13 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 14 | Yes , then you 've got some graph paper , and you 'll probably find that you 've got some with columns in , you 've got yes , vertical and then horizontal margins and then you 've got some with columns in . |
| 15 | Over the next few days we went paddling everywhere we could , starting with mud and graduating to small and then larger puddles . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Increasingly first American and then Japanese companies produced abroad , especially in Europe ( tables 3.3 and 3.4 ) . |
| 18 | Most of these detailed demographic studies have been made with pasture or woodland systems in northern temperate regions and it could well be that in arid zones , and some other extreme environments , biotic pressures are less dominant and then climatic factors may play the major role in killing plants and in natural selection . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We 're the ones that have said to Jehovah I am dedicating my life to you , I am going to do this , do that and the other and it 's up to us as to whether we do it , so it requires effort , first , five , six , also says let us stay awake , keep our senses first Peter , five , eight keep your senses , be watchful and then first Corinthians , ten , twelve which I think the song was based on let him think that he is standing , beware , beware , beware that he does not fall , if you think things are going along nicely and you 're in a comfortable little corner , a little niche in the truth , and it 's just how you like it , and it 's just the way you want it to be and there 's the time we need to be aware because there 's an opening for Satan to get into to make us fall . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |