Example sentences of "then the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | And then the tendrils of her inner fire licked outwards , and the buffeting of the waters around her merged dizzily with the touch of his hands as he drew her closer . |
2 | His coalition " national stability government " formed in June had collapsed with the expulsion on Dec. 1 of three Republican Party ministers and then the withdrawal of members of the main opposition Democratic Party ( DP ) . |
3 | For centuries , there had not been enough grain in the province to feed its people ; then the speculators from the north and the west had overrun the plains and seized the common pastureland to make their profits in cereals ; the great erratic storms of the Ninfanian hinterland burst over the thin fields and washed away the soil , turning the sheep runs of centuries into enclosed wasteland . |
4 | Then the rejection of a reading where ‘ him ’ is bound to the dog will cause CLE-1 and the reasoner to cycle through all of John , Bill , Fred , and the vet as candidate referents for ‘ he ’ before a change to the ‘ him ’ binding is considered . |
5 | Then the discovery of a rucksack . |
6 | Henry passed the horseradish sauce and then the gravy to the Major 's wife . |
7 | Since then the transformation of rural villages into non-agricultural settlements has taken place in a series of waves out along the lines of transportation from the major urban centres , particularly , in the first instance , London . |
8 | But if the average size of a household has fallen at the same time ( this has happened in the UK ) then the income of each person in a household may have risen . |
9 | If the spatial feature of interest is linear ( such as a boundary , river , a railway or a pipeline ) then the user of a GIS may wish to generate buffer zones on either side of the linear feature . |
10 | If we let X stand for any one of the sets X , Q , R , C , Z[x] , etc. mentioned in Chapter 1 , then the operations of addition and multiplication defined on X may be described as binary operations on X in that , to each pair of elements of X , both + and . |
11 | If this is done , then the choice of which questions to ask becomes much more clear cut ( see p. 50 ) . |
12 | However , once you have safely navigated the Full Moon on the 14th — and managed to reassure someone that you 'd love them even if they did n't have a bean — then the remainder of this month should be magic time . |
13 | Some like to work from a diagram where there is a brief description of technique used at the start , then the remainder of the pattern consists of the diagram of the various garment parts , with figures that relate to stitches , rows and sizes . |
14 | If good evidence for one is found , then the remainder of the word is tested for the root . |
15 | This punishment path involves two phases : a phase of expanded outputs ( lower prices ) which inflicts loss of profit on the deviant ; then the remainder of the path consists of a return to the original collusive outputs . |
16 | Prima facie it seems to me that if erm Humberside erm finds a need for such a policy erm then the remainder of the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association area erm should also have such a policy . |
17 | And then the flames of their candles had gone out . |
18 | First they try the very top of the Empire State Building , then the deck of an eighteenth-century clipper — all to no avail . |
19 | Then the Duke of Wellington , who made a most interesting speech on imaginative farming and game conservation , in which he deplored the massacre of nearly tame reared pheasants , and said that landowners and farmers should look to quality rather than quantity when shooting pheasants . |
20 | Once the crab had been shown by J. V. Thompson in his Zoological Researches ( 1828–34 ) to begin life as a little shrimp-like creature , and the barnacle perhaps more surprisingly to do the same before settling down in middle age , then the unity of plan in the group became more evident . |
21 | If that view is correct , as I take it to be , then the non-use of gas is one area in which the laws-of-war approach on the one hand , and the deterrence approach on the other , may have complemented each other . |
22 | If the line of the Gallery was maintained then the exit to La Scala would have been equally off line . |
23 | There was then the suspense of waiting for it to come in , and my fear that we might not be on the right platform or that the Great Western had forgotten about it . |
24 | There he accumulated Establishment honours : a knighthood , then the Order of Merit , and , in 1991 , fellowship of the Royal Academy . |
25 | ( 1.2 ) unc If the boolean guards in unc are pairwise disjoint , then the order of composition is immaterial . |
26 | I was present when one subject adviser made a visit , first to see the head , then the head of department and finally the whole department . |
27 | Then the development of broad-scale corporate dreams must be carried out by the board . |
28 | For example , on the Earth water in hydroxyl form occurs in clays , and if similar clays were exposed on the surface of Venus then the abundance of water in the atmosphere would be roughly that observed . |
29 | But then the columns of moulding moved in soundlessly and it was n't a tent after all . |
30 | Then the reams of drug anecdotes stop , and a highly confused sense of responsibility ambles in , concentrated on the cosily strung-out ‘ My Drug Buddy ’ . |