Example sentences of "and then of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the clarity of Hamelin 's articulation , often at the most break-neck speeds , reminds me now and then of the playing of John Ogdon , and there can be no higher praise than that . |
| 2 | But since her captivity , a babel seethed around her constantly , the cries and demands of Sycorax , the commands of the men on guard over her , the hammering and planing of the pales for the stockade and for the settlers ' other plans ; the shouts of the men from the boat-building on the beach , the barking of orders to bondsmen brought from England on the ship that had returned , the yells of slaves whom they had loaded in Dahomey or Yoruba on the journey back , and roped and chained and put to work under the whip , and the bellowing laughter now and then of the overseer , a tall African who had been taken out of chains himself to hold the lash over his fellows . |
| 3 | So dismal was it that I thought first of Byron 's prophetic poem of the death of light , and then of the lands that lie north of the line of the Arctic Circle . |
| 4 | And so , from the sick wards in the old House of Industry and then of the Bedford Union , through the workhouse infirmary , St. Peter 's Hospital , providing a comprehensive range of services for the sick and injured poor of the district , had emerged from the chrysalis as the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 5 | In late 1990 the failure first of the rains and then of the grain harvest across the Sahel in Africa [ see pp. 37845 ; 37907-08 ; 37945-46 ; 38090 ] prompted renewed questions as to whether this drought was linked to global warming . |
| 6 | But many archbishops were delighted by the excuse to go on pilgrimage to Rome ; and one of the first to benefit from the custom was Sigeric , archbishop of Canterbury ( 990 — 4 ) , who has left us a kind of diary of his visit — first of the churches in Rome which a pilgrim had especially to visit and to pray in , and then of the stages on his long journey back to Canterbury . |
| 7 | Thus in a passage quoted by James , Wundt writes : ‘ If we touch first the back of one hand and then of the other , we remark a qualitative unlikeness of sensation . |
| 8 | The bond which assures the existence of the individual , and provides him with his basic loyalties to his father and brothers and cousins , is also the bond which assures the cohesion of the nations , and then of the world , ‘ but it does become weaker as the numbers become greater ’ . |
| 9 | Unless we are clear about these , in the case of human beings , and then of the grounds for proceeding to apply them to animals , we will be ill-prepared to assess the claim of the scientist or other trained observer that a segment of observed animal behaviour is thoughtful , or intentional , or hopeful , or self-conscious . |
| 10 | It was with great sadness that we heard , first of the illness and then of the death on 29th August of David Pym . |
| 11 | He served as Deputy Lieutenant of Midlothian , and then of the City of Edinburgh , from 1956 to 1984 . |
| 12 | Captain of the 1975–76 team that won an FA Cup semi-final place for the first time in the club 's history , and then of the side which gained promotion to Division Two the following season , Ian 's future with us looked rosy indeed . |
| 13 | Coupled with the appointment of Sir Walter Marshall , an enthusiastic proponent of the PWR , first as chairman of the UKAEA and then of the CEGB , the door looked wide open for a third generation of British built , if not designed , nuclear power stations . |
| 14 | With the adulterous woman who came to the village well to draw water , he spoke first of the water and then of the men in her life . |