Example sentences of "then a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earlier trials suggest a characteristic of the following kind for a uniform ( card ) subject : — first a region in which all material is imperfectly seen , then a roughly linear region in which spreading takes place , then a gradual transition to flooding , seen as a super-linear increase in visible pixels with exposure and resulting finally in a complete whiteout , unless the illumination is too low . |
| 2 | But there was something so grim , so untouchable in the set of his face that there was a pause in the upward fluttering of her heart — a pause , and then a downward plunge to earth . |
| 3 | They point to a real wage drop of 10 to 12 per cent from 1790 to 1795 , then a slight recovery to around 5 per cent below the 1790 level over 1797 – 8 , followed by a plunge bottoming in 1800 – 1 at 30 per cent below the 1790 level . |
| 4 | If your stay in the new time zone is brief ( 1 or 2 days ) , then a substantial adjustment to it is unlikely . |
| 5 | Suppose we now proceed as in 2.9.3 : we begin with the submatrix Yo and successively evaluate unc and we then solve for Mo the eigenproblem unc Then a new approximation to Y is unc At this point we may ask : what is the purpose of eigenproblem ? |
| 6 | It is mostly used when A is a " sparse " matrix , with elements dominated by the diagonal ; B-1 is then a reasonable approximation to R. If this is not the case , the method may not converge , or do so very slowly . |
| 7 | If I was right in supposing this to be the nub of his argument , then a prior question to be considered was : ‘ Do people in fact suppose themselves to be justified in using the word ‘ hot ’ of material things , like fires , because they think there is something in the fire like what is in them when they feel hot ? ’ |
| 8 | Then a long walk to the little room . |
| 9 | There is a pool then a typical rack to Inverlaidnan Bridge . |
| 10 | Men like Pugin , Ruskin and William Morris turned a distasteful and then a blind eye to the fast growing urban sprawl and preferred to live in genuine or fake medieval houses by rivers or lakes . |
| 11 | Few pints in the Punch , then a quick cab to Spurs or the Arsenal . |
| 12 | Then a single transformation to a frame with this acceleration would enable us to impose a frame in free fall everywhere ; this is the situation described by SR . |
| 13 | Then an attempted entry to a local authority hairdressing course went embarrassingly wrong ; it finished with Mrs Finni having to spell out her daughter 's handicap to students and a flustered teacher who eventually refused to accept responsibility for a girl who could never be left alone in the classroom . |
| 14 | Apply two coats of varnish to rungs , then an extra coat to the whole chair . |
| 15 | If the questions that are asked are of the right kind , then an investigative approach to a topic will automatically ensure that the history attainment targets are met . |
| 16 | Then an improved approximation to Y is unc where do is an arbitrary non-singular diagonal matrix which may , for example , be used to make a homologous element in each of the corresponding columns of Y1 and Yo the same ; do is useful , but not essential . |