Example sentences of "then [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in case of foreign participation in excess of 20 per cent of the equity or 5 million forints the assessment is reduced by 20 per cent , but if more than half of the income is derived from manufacturing goods or carrying on the business of a hotel , and the stock capital exceeds 25 million forints and the foreign participation exceeds 30 per cent , then during the first five years the tax is reduced by 60 per cent and thereafter by 40 per cent . |
| 2 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
| 3 | I do believe that then for the first time it dawned on people that Northern Ireland was a series of Catholic and Protestant ghettoes . |
| 4 | She was not accustomed to ask questions , and obeyed ; Dinah accompanied her , saw her seated in the chair , the anaesthetic given , and the extraction begun ; then for the first time let her own mind admit the possibility that Paul 's illness might have some such origin , that she herself had in that case been the wife of a syphilitic for years , and might have caught it ; that she might lose her face or her mind ; that Robin had inherited it ; and now — |
| 5 | He smiled then for the first time , and the smile lightened his face to a sudden , vivid charm . |
| 6 | ‘ Then , if we go ahead with the script , they pay , for the treatment … 50.000,00 then for the first draft … 120.000,00 and for the second draft another 120.000,00 making in all , for the script … 290.000,00 |
| 7 | Then for the first time he noticed how much noise the rats were making . |
| 8 | With the elements as slaves , then for the first time in history slavery will be abolished . |
| 9 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 10 | The rain had let up and we walked at first , then as the first drops turned into a steady drizzle , we took a cab . |
| 11 | And then after the first seven or eight s cuttings , then they used to come along stooking . |
| 12 | Now there was a theory in the south of England , that when one retired , for the first year , you dumped most of your lump sum into premium bonds on the hope of a big win , and then after the first year you invested it , you see , having taken the big win . |
| 13 | The nightshift helped in this task , restricted to the ground floor initially , then onto the first floor in a massive clean up operation as electricians isolated affected areas . |
| 14 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 15 | We see a reversal of the role of consciousness and unconsciousness then in the first stanza , where the real conscious world slips into the background allowing this world of subliminality to predominate : |
| 16 | Basically they 're just telling the Party to consider the demands of the peasants and do what the peasants want but then er then in the first paragraph they say that you ought to erm they ought to support the masses in their erm implementation of agrarian reform , you have to give them planned guidance so it 's almost that how they 're telling the cadres to go out there and almost manipulate the peasants demands into more of a communist one . |
| 17 | And then in the first place you 're getting enough money you can you can bash it away and that 'll pay for your furniture . |
| 18 | Then from the first two columns of unc we have unc on transposition , since A is symmetric ; and unc Premultiply ( 13 ) by |
| 19 | From then until the first claims coming in , anything between five and ten years . |
| 20 | The Russian heroic tenor , Alexei Steblianko , from the Kirov in Leningrad is the least comfortable with a French accent , but then on the first night he was battling with a throat infection . |
| 21 | The Russian heroic tenor , Alexei Steblianko , from the Kirov in Leningrad is the least comfortable with a French accent , but then on the first night he was battling with a throat infection . |
| 22 | So I mean if you were to finish on the thirty first of August then on the first of September . |