Example sentences of "which then " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose 's ( 1971 ) survey , conducted in 1968 on the verge of ‘ the Troubles ’ , found that as many as 30 per cent of the catholic population were ‘ explicitly prepared to endorse the constitution ’ of Northern Ireland , which then included the Stormont parliament . |
| 2 | Avoid monoculture : growing large areas of the same crop which then becomes an easy target . |
| 3 | The influence of its music was greatly enhanced by the technological advances which then took place : first in gramophones ; then in public broadcasting systems . |
| 4 | Having found both America and Canada limiting — for different reasons — he took the only other course open to him , he went east : to Europe which then meant London . |
| 5 | The perplexed driver took him to a police station — which then contacted Steve . |
| 6 | Based on the Rayner Review , by Sir Derek ( now Lord ) Rayner , chairman of Marks and Spencer , the White Paper signalled a 25 per cent cut in the GSS and the Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) which then employed 540 professional statisticians and about 8,500 other staff at a cost of £100m . |
| 7 | Ramsey turned to study law , which then was regarded as the best training for a future politician . |
| 8 | As the band were good enough live , we could build up a ground swell of interest at a local level which then translated into national success . |
| 9 | One reason is that this conflation of binaries enables a merging of misogyny and homophobia , each of which then potentially expresses the violence of the other . |
| 10 | So , in seeing the transvestite boy , the male member of the audience might be moved to lascivious thoughts about women , which then transfer to the boy himself . |
| 11 | Marx 's and Engels 's first concern with anthropological material was therefore to show the variety that exists in the nature of social relations , and the historical peculiarity of a society where one group of people treat others only in respect of the labour they provide , labour which then can be bought and sold as though it was any other useful article . |
| 12 | ‘ Separating ’ floors — ie , those which separate one ‘ layer ’ of dwellings from the flats located above or below — are of concrete construction and most of the new concrete floors were executed by laying down pre-cast concrete planks which then received a steel-reinforced concrete screed as a structural topping . |
| 13 | It is easy to see that this was a practical means of enclosing a large volume which then could be used for the storage of grain , and the profile is reminiscent of the gambrel-roofed hay barns in the USA . |
| 14 | They drag what they find into the tunnel , eat some of it and deposit the rest , which then rots and helps to feed the plants . |
| 15 | Maybe the parties foolishly signed a pact which then found its way into the hands of the DTI . |
| 16 | But the Germans admired them for their toughness and energy and in 1898 persuaded Britain , which then ran Bougainville , to swap the island for some German possessions elsewhere in the Pacific . |
| 17 | Losses would be twice as high if energy producers imposed a carbon tax and kept the revenues for themselves , or if a tax were levied by a world agency which then shared out the revenue in proportion to each region 's population . |
| 18 | ‘ Nor can I ever lose sight of that flood of tears which then poured from his eyes , when reluctant nature was constrained to resign a beloved child to the cold arms of death . |
| 19 | At the end of each cycle God destroys his creation which then lies dormant in Him to be recreated . |
| 20 | At Edinburgh 's Institute for Animal Physiology and Genetics , human genes were introduced into mice and sheep which then produced valuable human proteins , including easily retrievable blood-clotting agents and insulin . |
| 21 | As a result they talk a lot of bullshit about how this is their generation 's answer to LSD ( It 's our final frontier ’ ) and also call up the memories of past sins and traumas — playground racism , the suicide of a Viet vet father , some modish videotape voyeurism , bullying and murder even — which then return to haunt them in the real world . |
| 22 | Four sensors on the hood follow the ground contours and send signals to the processor , which then instructs the rams to raise or lower , accordingly . |
| 23 | They cause damage to the vessel lining , which then creates a tendency for blood clots or emboli to develop . |
| 24 | The first type is ‘ messenger ’ RNA ( mRNA for short ) , which is made in the nucleus as a copy of a DNA gene , and which then passes into the cytoplasm ( the part of the cell outside the nucleus ) to the ribosome assembly line . |
| 25 | The cockpit is then propelled by a large rocket and almost immediately stabilised by a small drogue , or parachute , which then pulls out the main chute , said Mr Brian Miller , of Martin Baker , the leading name in ejection seat invention and manufacture . |
| 26 | Housing association money is handed over to an organisation called Community House in South East London ( Chisel ) which then finances various co-operatives . |
| 27 | The term autopoiesis was coined in the mid-1970s to characterise a ‘ living ’ system as a structure defined by a boundary within which occurs a series of interdependent reactions that regenerate the boundary and its components , which then assemble in the structure itself . |
| 28 | In a simple instance , such as hunger , the stimulus is particularly noticeable to a hungry animal , which then works hard to obtain the food . |
| 29 | Another principal suggestion is that these relatively simple compounds were first held ( ‘ adsorbed ’ ) on the surface of clays , which then acted as catalysts , and caused them to react together . |
| 30 | But by 1923 , however , the first hint of the car parking problem of the future is indicated , for the Committee permitted the parking of cars on the half-moon of grass which then fronted the main road between the present entrance and exit points . |