Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and then [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bacteria then work on the nitrates converting them firstly to nitrous oxide and then to free nitrogen gas . |
| 2 | We 've attempted , Chairer , to assess this proposal and then to set a criteria I think it 's important for members to understand that currently there is a consortium that er , is in operation , fully operational that is carrying out the tasks erm , that are identified in the consultation document mainly erm the consultation document itself does erm show exactly what the health authority is doing erm , the proposal now before you is to extend that erm to one merged unit of health authority with one executive board erm based with three local health clinics erm , to provide the service . |
| 3 | The growing tendency for women in many developed countries to postpone legal marriage until between ages 25 and 30 years and then to begin having children also implies health risks . |
| 4 | It was interesting to observe how they arrived full of animation and determined to be good and entertaining guests and then to watch the slightly false vivacity fade away as the melin had its usual effect . |
| 5 | We expect BP Exploration 's production to remain broadly at 1992 's level for the next few years and then to rise after 1995 . |
| 6 | It is too easy to project all the evil outwards into that desert and then to believe that all is well in our own garden . |
| 7 | Mrs Frizzell was immediately suspicious To get so much sympathy and then to get a handout as soon as she asked for it , was unnerving . |
| 8 | It seemed to Julia to be the height of good manners to have greeted a stranger with apparent pleasure under such circumstances and then to have included her in the family teasing , but she wanted to make certain that they could forget their manners and talk freely to each other without having to bother about her . |
| 9 | Thus the aim of a two-part tariff is to use fixed charges to pay for fixed costs and then to levy marginal charges to cover marginal costs . |
| 10 | As suggested above , what Community law seems to require national courts positively to do is to identify an organisational function and then to ascertain whether control of that function has been transferred from one person to another in such a way that the function retains its operational structure . |
| 11 | It is little use allowing conditions to deteriorate for three months and then to conduct a total clean-out of the filter and a 100% water change . |
| 12 | The House of Lords has confirmed that " in every case , the magistrates or the jury are called on to ascertain who are the likely readers and then to consider whether the article is likely to deprave and corrupt them " . |
| 13 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 14 | Design law : law in individual Member States is quite different and the EC intends a two-pronged effort ; first to harmonize national laws and then to introduce Community-wide design rights . |
| 15 | Indeed , he frequently managed both to play the French and the Americans off against each other and then to blame them when anything went wrong . |
| 16 | To survive and succeed at college , you must learn ( 1 ) what to read ( 2 ) how to read , and ( 3 ) how to take useful notes and then to make the best use of them ( see Chapter 9 on taking notes from reading ) . |
| 17 | However , it must be said that this paper is not an attempt to cast management in an entirely negative light and then to oppose that with an equally ‘ rosy ’ view of professionalism — with the implication that management must recede and that professionalism should advance . |
| 18 | The following passage is taken from my book ‘ Managing Stress ’ and you will see how it is possible to extract from the text the relevant key words and then to create a thought-flow chart from them : |
| 19 | He wrote recently in the GEC Journal of Science and Technology : ‘ It can be demonstrated that it is significantly cheaper to store fuel for medium to long periods and then to commit it directly to a geological repository , rather than to commit fuel to the reprocessing cycle . ’ |
| 20 | It will be instructive , therefore , to describe the traditional method and then to explain the new system . |
| 21 | I also like to work one area in great detail and then to wash over the whole thing to blur it out . |
| 22 | In theoretical work , the turbulence is supposed to be generated at an initial instant and then to decay as time proceeds . |
| 23 | It is proposed first of all to consider the new enhanced investigative powers of the regulatory authorities and then to look at civil law remedies , both common law and statutory . |
| 24 | The simplest solution would be to raise grants to a civilised level and then to peg them to the movement of wages or prices , but this was not among the options considered by the government when it began to look at student funding . |
| 25 | The only difference is that , whereas article 10 of the Convention , in accordance with its avowed purpose , proceeds to state a fundamental right and then to qualify it , we in this country ( where everybody is free to do anything , subject only to the provisions of the law ) proceed rather upon an assumption of freedom of speech , and turn to our law to discover the established exceptions to it . |
| 26 | The only difference is that , whereas article 10 of the Convention , in accordance with its avowed purpose , proceeds to state a fundamental right and then to qualify it , we in this country ( where everybody is free to do anything , subject only to the provisions of the law ) proceed rather upon an assumption of freedom of speech , and turn to our law to discover the established exceptions to it . |
| 27 | The only difference is that , whereas article 10 of the Convention , in accordance with its avowed purpose , proceeds to state a fundamental right and then to qualify it , we in this country ( where everybody is free to do anything , subject only to the provisions of the law ) proceed rather upon an assumption of freedom of speech , and turn to our law to discover the established exceptions to it . |
| 28 | Miller concluded this letter to Alston with a note on his own intentions — to add figures to supplement the Dictionary — ‘ my scheme is to give the characters of each Genus after the manner of Tournefort , which are all drawn from the growing plants and then to add , one , two , or more plants of the most beautiful , useful or rare species of each Genus . ’ |
| 29 | It has even been known for a company to respond to a request for information six weeks after the initial query and then to complain that their product had been left out ! |
| 30 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |