Example sentences of "then [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke then records a story about Jesus visiting the capital city for the feast of Passover at the age of twelve . |
| 2 | The budget-holder ( i.e. the person who is responsible for cost control against budgeted work content ) then produces a budget in the agreed format . |
| 3 | In this area he builds first a small depression by removing mouthfuls of sand and then produces a nest from weeds which are coated with a sticky substance so that they can be moulded with his snout . |
| 4 | The operator then turns a handle to allow three or more spears to puncture the cans and allow their contents to run into the bottom of the hopper . |
| 5 | Sentence ( 2 ) then offers a meaning for the motif : a critique of the corruption of the American dream . |
| 6 | The screen then displays a selection of different recipes plus pictures . |
| 7 | He has an uncanny eye for spotting talent and then displays a willingness to nurture it . |
| 8 | Anyone who drinks 2½ pints of beer or ½ bottle of wine and then drives a car is almost certainly breaking the law unless he waits patiently for the liver to reduce blood alcohol levels . |
| 9 | Based on it management then devises a variety of systems to ensure that , from the employee 's standpoint , the top brass ‘ puts its money where its mouth is . ’ |
| 10 | Having worked out the desirable size of interest categories , the McClellan system then evolves a way of monitoring the stock within them . |
| 11 | The " Rodilla Asturica " or Asturian kneebend then represents a swing from the latter to the former . |
| 12 | What is difficult to establish is whether the job attracts the sort of goal profiles that are suitable or whether the individual is attracted by the job and then develops a profile suitable to it . |
| 13 | A person who plies a driver with drinks and then accepts a lift and is injured will also be liable under this head . |
| 14 | If he then writes a monograph about a " tribe " or a " people " or a " social system " and he wants to be recognized as a scientist rather than as an artist , he is under pressure to persuade himself ( and his readers ) that the events which he saw happening before his eyes were " typical " of what might be going on elsewhere in the system . |
| 15 | We do not have to specify what it is we want to any analyst who in turn specifies it to a programmer who then writes a program . |
| 16 | And then has a glass , I mean , the number of times he , I mean I think he 's the only one who drinks milk by the glassful ! |
| 17 | When it spots an insect on overhanging vegetation , it lines itself up and then shoots a jet of water from its mouth to knock the insect out of the air . |
| 18 | This then forces a consideration of whether investment can then improve the SBU 's competitive stance or not . |
| 19 | He said that the American system , where the debtor pays the advice agency which then deducts a levy before paying the creditor , was the most practical . |
| 20 | In the words cited he then establishes a trust of one hundred in his favour . |
| 21 | It chooses a Premier from amongst its number , who then appoints a Cabinet . |
| 22 | ‘ The witch cuts the hand from a murdered man then fashions a candle out of human grease which is lighted and put into the hand . |
| 23 | If the government then levies a tax on the use of capital in the X sector at the same rate , this means that the choice of factor intensity in that sector is the same as if the factor prices were w and r . |
| 24 | A special escape sequence defines a rectangular area of the page and then introduces a block of pixel data , very similar in principle to a bit image file . |
| 25 | He selects a version of the ‘ harm to interests ’ principle to set the scope of the obligations of criminal law , and then adopts a choice theory in order to determine the issue of personal responsibility . |
| 26 | On the basis of studies of various enterprises , he then adopts a stance which radically de-emphasizes the degree of both rationality and negotiation needed in successful organizations . |
| 27 | The romantic grave on that rocky promontory ; the great man lying there , his head pointing out to sea , listening for all eternity to the comings and goings of the tide ; the young writer , with stirrings of genius inside him , kneels by the tomb , watches the pink drain slowly from the evening sky , reflects — in the way young men are wont to do — on eternity , the fugitive nature of life and the consolations of greatness , then gathers a flower which has rooted itself in Châteaubriand 's dust , and sends it to his beautiful mistress in Paris … |
| 28 | Stone recurrence after bile acid therapy occurs in approximately 50% of patients within five years of treatment and then reaches a plateau of 61% by the 11th year . |
| 29 | The Zener then gets a kick when the radio is turned on and capacitor C1 partially discharges through it . |
| 30 | They cause damage to the vessel lining , which then creates a tendency for blood clots or emboli to develop . |