Example sentences of "then [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This is because they have been processed automatically ; but if our attention is on our own thoughts rather than the author 's , then comprehension will fail .
2 Then comprehension dawned and he bristled .
3 Er then election day we were out all day with , with a driver of a car getting people out and for them or going through the motions .
4 If rural areas are to absorb and retain more labour than they have been expected to do in the past then agriculture and other forms of primary production will have a key role to play .
5 If the defendant intends to do harm , e.g. in trespass , then liability will be more extensive than where he is negligent .
6 Where the defect arises from a production defect which renders the product unsafe , then liability will attach under the Act .
7 They point out that the model predicts that a stimulus will lose associability if it is consistently followed by a reinforcer of a given size but that if the size of the reinforcer varies from trial to trial then associability will be maintained .
8 ‘ Once it is generally realized that the animals are such close kin to us , then meat-eating will be disdained as too near to cannibalism for comfort .
9 As soon as any outbreak of violence , however mild , occurs in society , then damage is done , if it 's only to the social fabric of society , because one or two people can not go about their business , can not go about their pleasure , in the way in which they would wish to .
10 In addition , if samples for platelet function studies are taken from diabetic subjects during episodes of metabolic decompensation leading to diabetic ketoacidosis or the non-ketotic hyperosmolar syndrome , then platelet aggregation and consumption may be stimulated ( Kwaan et al , 1972 ; Paton , 1981 ) .
11 He then became kadi of Amasya , then defterdar , then kadi of Damascus in 927–8/1521 , after which " posts diverse of rank " , as Mecdi writes , he returned to teaching , according to Taskopruzade at the Sultan Murad Khan medrese in Bursa , according to Mecdi at the Yildirimhan ( Bayezid I ) medrese in Bursa , and then , according to both , with 70 akce a day at the Sahn , from which he was subsequently removed , dying in retirement with a pension of 80 akce .
12 If the changes in connectivity which form the memory are localized to a particular small set of cells and their connections within the brain , rather than being widely diffused , then removal of the set of cells should also remove the memory — or prevent it from being formed .
13 ‘ If by ‘ ability ’ we mean ‘ measured intelligence ’ and by ‘ opportunity ’ access to grammar schools , then opportunity may be said to stand in close relationship with ability in both these areas to-day . ’
14 mega bucks and the company had gone escalated and then opportunity of this guy , you know , saying what a super guy he was , what an entrepreneur and what he done is , you know , I 've had something head , you know , I 'm in charge and he put his feet on the desk there and he had a hole in his shoe and s spread across all the papers the next day was this guy with a hole in his shoe and this was a multi million pound corporate er corporate body , he could n't afford to buy a decent pair of shoes
15 The Tyneside experience seems to be that in ‘ gentrified ’ areas this will happen , but in areas which retain their original working-class population as owners rather than tenants , then grant aid is necessary if the stock is not to deteriorate beyond redemption .
16 It may then resort to thieving , or whining every time you eat , because it is disturbed with the uncertainty of its own feeding arrangements .
17 To the perfect , shifting sands where they planned to sunbathe and then camp overnight .
18 Then Furlong was just wide with a shot-on-the-turn from 12 yards and Coventry 's supporters were justified in expecting their first win in five games — and only the third of Don Howe 's reign .
19 ‘ If you want to be with someone , then tiredness does n't come into it . ’
20 Having passed seven CSE 's at school , she said , " I reckoned that if I had a future then computer studies was where it would be .
21 If , however , a definite association were to be found between the occurrence of skin cancers or miscarriages and the continued use of computer monitors , then computer manufacturers and importers who continued to make or sell equipment giving off such dangerous emissions would be liable under the Act .
22 She read a lot of magazines : Cosmo in high school and then Vogue .
23 If parties remain in dispute as to whether the risk exists , then settlement of the action is , in our opinion , impossible .
24 Conversely , if the tax encourages savings , then inequality is reduced .
25 Monotheism , for Empson , is the arch-villain of human history and the prime source of intolerance , and it is a villain of irrepressible energy : first the Judaic revival , then the foundation of Christianity , then Islam .
26 If the delegation is absolute and unconditional then the electorate can not be sovereign ; if it delegates its power on trust then Parliament can not be sovereign .
27 And we had an example of that , a good example this year of course with erm that in that , in the spring of this year John Major erm had to call an election before June twentieth I think the date was because by that time then parliament would have automatically been dissolved .
28 In Parliament he had been associated with a party which was out of favour with the King , and as Public Orator he had lauded the policy of peace when Charles , then Prince of Wales , was determined to make war on Spain .
29 The fashion began as far back as 1783 when King George IV , then Prince of Wales , first paid a visit .
30 Then Prince — black and white tom .
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