Example sentences of "then [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Next is a visit to the miniature village of Madurodam and then to see the picturesque harbour at Scheveningen .
2 The bird might then learn that a certain movement of its bill in relation to a milk bottle results in a meal ; and if the bird was then to perform the same activity on an unopened bottle it might break through the top for itself .
3 If the times at which additions are expected can be predicted , it may be wise to hold additions in an ancillary file until each ‘ burst ’ of activity is over and then to reorganize the main file to include them .
4 The immediate goal is to complete the Quality Development Programme and then to implement the new Quality Framework .
5 His method was to look for a regular solution of the field equations in region IV , and then to obtain the global solution simply by requiring that the metric coefficients be continuous across the boundaries .
6 But if they have produced nothing by then to diminish the present perception of the fudgeability of accounts , they are hardly likely to survive that long .
7 It 's very difficult then to exercise the same kind of partnership control which traditionally those firms had .
8 The method employed by Hauser and Ernst ( 1989 a ) is first to find a one-parameter family of basic solutions by means of a suitable separation of variables and then to express the final solution as a linear super-position of these basic solutions .
9 Then to differentiate the whole lot because it goes to cos .
10 For example , it has been proposed to deliver genes encoding prodrug-activating enzymes to tumours by injection of retroviral vector-producer cells 29,30 , and then to administer the appropriate prodrug to kill gene-transduced tumour cells and their untransduced neighbours .
11 If ‘ There has just taken place in me the mental process of remembering … ’ means nothing more than ‘ I have just remembered … ’ then to deny the mental process would mean to deny the remembering .
12 But , as so often , no one was prepared to halt the machine once set in motion and on Friday 26 January 1744 Admiral Jacques de Roquefeuil sailed out of Brest with a fleet of 22 ships , with instructions to cover the embarkation of the army at Dunkirk and then to lure the English fleet away towards the Isle of Wight .
13 The mathematical problem is then to solve the differential equation unc in conjunction with the boundary condition that unc constant on all conductor surfaces .
14 Since two different groups of headlines appear in E [ the last sheet but three ] it is obvious that an interruption occurred while E was printing ; and it appears probable that it came about because the printer abruptly decided to run off a small number of complete copies of the book for sale while the opera was being presented and then to finish the entire edition at leisure .
15 It was obviously dishonest and disingenuous to try to cash in on a film dealing realistically with labour problems and then to hang the whole action on the villainy of professional racketeers specializing in encouraging strikes before helping to break them .
16 As you equip such men and women , Lord , we pray that the Holy Spirit may be channelled through then to equip the whole church in the service of Christ ; that those who confess your name may be united in your truth , live together in your love and reveal your glory in the world .
17 Unfortunately this can not be done in the UK House of Commons , and the cameraman has to identify the Member who has been called , often in the midst of a throng of Members competing for the Speaker 's eye , and then to add the computerized caption .
18 My usual practice when visiting a patient with an acute febrile illness was to leave a prescription for the appropriate conventional drug ( usually an antibiotic ) , while at the same time administering the most appropriate homoeopathic remedy with the advice to the patient — or the parents , if the patient was a child — to continue to take the homoeopathic remedy but that if there was no improvement in two to four hours then to take the conventional drug .
19 It will be instructive , therefore , to describe the traditional method and then to explain the new system .
20 To survive and succeed at college , you must learn ( 1 ) what to read ( 2 ) how to read , and ( 3 ) how to take useful notes and then to make the best use of them ( see Chapter 9 on taking notes from reading ) .
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