Example sentences of "then a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were plenty of wild places downstream where he could wade ashore , and then — well , if the Patrician really had sent out word about him then a change of clothing and a shave should take care of that . |
| 2 | Perhaps then a change in emphasis away from technological advancement for the sole reason of energy saving and control , to technological advancement for occupant satisfaction and concomitant increased productivity is what is required . |
| 3 | Remember this when you write an argument : that they depend , to a large extent , on the antagonists not hearing one another — for if they heard and understood one another , then a measure of sympathy would be extended and the continuance of the row would be threatened . |
| 4 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 5 | If it had reached the Morvan and had then turned round , but did not make it back to base , then a crash on land or sea is self-evident : if on land , only the agency — the weather , engine trouble , or enemy action — is in doubt . |
| 6 | Anne , sitting watching late-night television with drooping eyes , gave a jump , then a gasp of horror , when she saw Robyn . |
| 7 | Just then a ripple of movement far out in the grounds caught the left edge of Grant 's vision . |
| 8 | Then a ripple of information came down the queue to say that we had been ordered back to the station because there obviously was n't sufficient bus capacity . |
| 9 | If a country depends on one or two primary products , e.g. bauxite or coffee , for the bulk of its export revenue then a fall in world demand and prices for these products can have a disastrous impact on export revenues , GNP growth and economic development programmes . |
| 10 | She underwent a lumpectomy and then a course of radiotherapy , and was due to start drug treatment when she met another cancer patient . |
| 11 | If you thought that shareware had little to offer serious business users then a look at PC-Type may do much to change your mind . |
| 12 | " There ca n't be any worse , " she said bitterly , and then a look of contrition passed across her pretty face . |
| 13 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 14 | Havers strenuously denied that there had been a cover-up , and Mr Douglas Hurd , then a Minister of State at the Foreign Office , maintained that a full inquiry into the affair had revealed nothing to suggest that national security had been prejudiced . |
| 15 | In reply to a parliamentary question in 1984 , Peter Morrison ( then a Minister of State for Employment ) confirmed that ‘ the Government is not convinced that legislating against age discrimination in employment would be beneficial or practicable . |
| 16 | Last year Timothy Raison , then a minister of state at the Home Office , said : ‘ There are no present plans to link Heathrow airport with the immigration and nationality department computer , which is now at Bootle . ’ |
| 17 | In evidence to the UK House of Commons select committee on foreign affairs on July 11 , 1990 , Francis Maude , then a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with special responsibilities for Hong Kong , stated that with regard to the influx of Vietnamese " boat people " into the colony , he did not exclude mandatory repatriation in future and said that the voluntary scheme was working well . |
| 18 | He 'd never run as a youngster ; cycling was his sport , then a bit of motorcycling after his service in the RAF . |
| 19 | Ruth looked down at the pool , remembering its silken coolness ; then a pang of horror came . |
| 20 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
| 21 | In the old days , the bride 's bouquet would be displayed in the entrance of her house for a day or so , and then a sprig of myrtle would be removed and planted to grow into a nice little bush , a sentimental memento to flourish on her estate and murmur ‘ constancy ’ into her subconscious . |
| 22 | Mandy had planned a short trip : about a forty-five-minute paddle and then a stop for lunch at a secluded bay down the lake , and then back . |
| 23 | At last , jamming a fist and then a boot between rock and shrunken ice , I fingered a flake and heaved myself a cheval onto a sunlit stance , metres from the summit . |
| 24 | They went through a side door ; there was a smell of baking , a warm kitchen smell through the corridors , then a smell of polish on the big stairway , and the wide dark hall hung with pictures of Mother Foundress and Our Lady , and lit only by the Sacred Heart lamp . |
| 25 | If genuinely random jumps really occurred , then a jump from insect to scorpion would be perfectly possible . |
| 26 | Provided that the sale of debt is in excess of what the government intends to spend , a process referred to at the moment as ‘ overfunding ’ , then a shortage of liquidity has been created . |
| 27 | She imagined the nozzle of an enema being pushed up there , and then a rush of water filling her bowels . |
| 28 | Then a flicker of movement caught his eye off to one side of the clearing , and he saw the two youngsters were still hovering there uncertainly . |
| 29 | If there is spare capacity then a rise in output Y t can be met from the existing capital stock , with no need for new investment . |
| 30 | He seemed to stare at Sharpe as he died ; offering the Englishman a look of mingled surprise and remorse , then a gout of blood , bright as the sun itself , slashed out to soak Sharpe 's right arm and shoulder . |