Example sentences of "then the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The movement was also the best example of the ‘ spirit of the times ’ working within Nonconformity ; if evolutionary progress led to Lord Rosebery 's ‘ Efficiency ’ , a decline in unnecessary competition and a new emphasis on cooperation and order as opposed to unregulated competition , then the twentieth century demanded a better organized Nonconformity to assume the place hitherto occupied by the Church of England . |
| 2 | In the tense silence that followed , Tam and Lan , who had their faces to the wall , heard their father draw a long shuddering breath ; then the first crack of the bamboo cane rang through the quiet room like a pistol shot . |
| 3 | Should the strings become entwined then the first protagonist to shout ‘ Strings ! ’ had strike and so the conker bashing went on until one split . |
| 4 | Then the first bombs began to fall on Ford Island Naval Air Station and the dive bombers turned on the fleet at anchor , followed closely by torpedo bombers . |
| 5 | Then the first coats of paint were applied , either by the dipping method , or by brush . |
| 6 | Then the first part is loaded , and begins with some bricks floating in midair — in time with the music they form ‘ ETE ’ ( short for Eternity ) , an excellent animation indeed . |
| 7 | If markets fail to allocate resources efficiently because of the existence of externalities , then the first prerequisite for efficient government intervention is making good the market 's informational failures . |
| 8 | If if it is considered that a new settlement is required to meet the housing provision in Greater York , then the first question that has to be asked is , is the criteria approach alone acceptable . |
| 9 | Then the first man stalked forward , blasting several more shots into the car ; the radiator disappeared in a cloud of steam , the bonnet was blown off , and the car suddenly lurched downwards and circled as half the wheel nearest Howard was blown away . |
| 10 | Then the first man came along , with talk of marriage . |
| 11 | and then the first day I stop , I 've usually got flu , I 'm exhausted , I ca n't get out of bed , I feel rotten , but if I keep going for like , three weeks to a month , just on six hours , that 's fine , but the first day I stop I 'm like , in bed for a week ill usually . |
| 12 | Then the first company might decide to introduce the product at a price level below initial cost , such as P 1 , in order to frighten rivals off and gain the maximum possible accumulated production experience . |
| 13 | Then the first film starts . |
| 14 | If you have two males then the first sign will probably be the continuous conflict . |
| 15 | Then the first burst of gunfire tore across the front of the cottage . |
| 16 | If you bought mail order , then the first point of contact is the software house or importer concerned . |
| 17 | Then the first bullet went into his head . |
| 18 | Then the first capacitor is coupled to the second one again , and so on . |
| 19 | If a search path to a goal takes n steps , then the first rule on the path will gain no credit until the nth traversal of the path . |
| 20 | A better , put a fibrous pad over it , so a pad , pressure directly over the wound initially , that 's the first treatment done , see to casualty put pressure immediately over the wound and raise the limb higher than the heart , then the first aid equipment that you 'll need is a fibrous pad to bind over it , to keep the pressure on . |
| 21 | It may also be noted that if this method is employed then the first number chosen should be by random means rather than just ‘ saying a number between 1 and 10 ’ since it is well known that choices between these limits do not come out anything like randomly — the number 7 being particularly popular . |
| 22 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 23 | Yeah but then the first thing he would have done would have been got up and gone off and got it done privately . |
| 24 | Then the first soldier returned and said , ‘ The General will see you now , ’ with awesome regard for the word ‘ General ’ . |
| 25 | They talked to each other again , and then the first horse made clear signs for me to follow him . |
| 26 | If the heat could not be sufficiently localised to avoid this , then the first solders had to have a higher melting point than the subsequent ones . |
| 27 | It is also perhaps a sign of Boiotian isolation that there were no tyrants in archaic Boiotia , and that by the Persian Wars Thebes , then the first city of Boiotia , was controlled by a dynasteia , an irresponsible family government ( Thuc. iii.62 ) . |
| 28 | What usually happens is one bloke ‘ digs ’ ( see box ) the ball up , the other guy ‘ volleys it ’ high in the air , then the first guy jumps up and smashes it down over the net . |
| 29 | It was patented in Germany sixteen years later as an appetite suppressor ( and then the First World War happened … ) . |
| 30 | And then the first shells fell near us . |