Example sentences of "then the [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For centuries , there had not been enough grain in the province to feed its people ; then the speculators from the north and the west had overrun the plains and seized the common pastureland to make their profits in cereals ; the great erratic storms of the Ninfanian hinterland burst over the thin fields and washed away the soil , turning the sheep runs of centuries into enclosed wasteland . |
| 2 | If the child is older , say 14 or 15 years of age , then the views of the child should be taken into consideration . |
| 3 | Then the leaders of the Lombard League , a new party that raked in millions of votes from frustrated northern Italians in regional elections last year , were branded men of ‘ criminal , foolish and shameful ’ political design . |
| 4 | This analysis was reiterated in a very similar form in the 1970s by Berlinguer and Carillo , then the leaders of the Italian and Spanish Communist parties , and in a form which closely resembles the views of contemporary left-wing social democrats ( Hodgson , 1977 ) . |
| 5 | And then the lights of the chandelier dimmed . |
| 6 | When supplying a contact name please include a title ( eg Mr , Mrs , Ms , Miss etc ) , and then the initial(s) of the forename . |
| 7 | Now , if there was no correlation between the two , then the patterns of the Z's paired Z scores would be quite arb arbitrary in that there 'd be no consistent pattern . |
| 8 | Since then the personnel of the army had been increased to 100,000 and there was a marked deficiency in major items of equipment . |
| 9 | Even then the provisions under the Act were fairly limited : the penal laws were not repealed , but Protestant Dissenters were merely given immunity from prosecution if they held their own religious services , provided their meeting-houses were licensed and the doors were left open when they met . |
| 10 | Then the men-at-arms under the two banners , the King 's and the Earl 's , had waited outside , and the rest had got round the gate and walked talking inside : the King Macbeth with less meat on him , like a man who fed at sea , and Siward of Northumbria the way he always was , with his chest round as a shield under his tunic , and only his hair and beard greyer than you would think for a man not much past fifty . |
| 11 | The pilot was lit with a taper , and then the burners under the copper boiler would ignite with a great whooshing sound , and the hot water begin to flow very slowly . |
| 12 | Then the forces of the Asturian kings pushed further south , founding states in Leon , Castile and Burgos . |
| 13 | If the radical criminologists ' assumptions are correct , then the figures for the second half of the 19th century might probably show the opposite from that which they do ’ ( Emsley , 1988 , p. 42 ) . |
| 14 | and then the bows for the |
| 15 | The important visitors filed in after them , and then the members of the press corps . |
| 16 | If the vendor does not know of the proposed management buy-out , or is aware but has not given approval , then the members of the management team almost certainly risk action against them for breach of their service agreements . |
| 17 | Then the sections of the Second International had divided up between the different belligerent powers . |
| 18 | If this sort of thing could take place at the most sacred shrine in Delhi , then the festivals at the lesser dargahs-such as that which grew up around the grave of the saintly Emperor Bahadur Shah I — could be even more lively . |
| 19 | If the law is not a business then the controls of the market can not be applied successfully and alternatives must be sought . |
| 20 | In summary then the difficulties for the Archive lie in trying to identify users ’ needs and in providing them with the appropriate service on a range from an on-line determined access ( in which the Archive itself is relatively ‘ transparent ’ ) through to a supportive guided approach . |
| 21 | If the example is quite unlike any training instance , then the values on the N input lines to each RAM chip will be uncorrelated with any of the values it was trained from . |
| 22 | If the rear section of the loop is situated at y = -b/2 at time t = 0 , then the positions of the rear and front sections will be unc at time t . |
| 23 | If , however , concern is more narrowly focused only on the effects of the CU then the consequences for the balance of trade is the major concern . |
| 24 | Then the industrialists of the ancillary factories had been forced to observe the law of India , by granting minimum wages and basic safety facilities to the casual workers . |
| 25 | The first suggests that so long as the leadership of extreme right-wing groups continues to be held by those who have absorbed the culture of these groups , then the traditions of the antisemitic ideology of conspiracy will continue in such groups . |
| 26 | If A and B interact , then the components of the compound will not necessarily be perceived as being the same as the stimuli encountered during pre-exposure and latent inhibition will be attenuated . |
| 27 | He heard his mother continuing to scream and then the headlights on the Glory turned back on , the radio crashed out again with its heavy rock and the doors closed and locked . |
| 28 | But there is no late date set into the legislation , only that ratification when it is required means that from the first of the following month then the elections on the new constituency boundaries may take place under the new er European rules so that a decision is of course for an election in June er is in fact needed by the first of May . |
| 29 | If the matrimonial home is already subject to a mortgage then the requirements of the mortgagees will have to be ascertained prior to a conveyance or transfer and if , although the house is to remain in joint names , liability for the mortgage payments is to be assumed by one party , an indemnity to the other party will have to be included in the declaration of trust ( see Precedent 54 ) . |
| 30 | But then the cells at the tip begin to shoot out long filopodia which make contact with the wall and contract pulling the future gut further in . |