Example sentences of "then [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was then exposed to various synthetic chemicals in turn , and reacted badly to diesel fumes , cigarette smoke , natural gas , chlorine and alcohol . |
| 2 | Uses a ‘ sponge and dough ’ process ; part of the dough is left for 24 hours and then added to new dough . |
| 3 | The matter was then reported to New Scotland Yard . |
| 4 | According to a slightly modified method described by Deschner and Lipkin , the mucosal fragments were then transferred to sterile septum fitted vials containing 2 ml of Eagle 's basic salt solution supplemented with 10% calf serum ( GIBCO , Paisley , Scotland ) and 5 µCi H-thymidine/ml ( specific activity , 25 Ci/mmol ) ( Amersham , Buckinghamshire , UK ) . |
| 5 | They were then transferred to solitary confinement . |
| 6 | Cross-section of CEGB 's waste-fuel store : After delivery in flasks to the store ( top ) the irradiated fuel would be dried and then transferred to special containers made of tow-carbon steel . |
| 7 | Take-up has stemmed partly from the wish of those companies trading internationally and particularly in the highly litigious US to protect their directors and partly because , as Willis Corroon 's Drew Hardie said , ‘ when directors who had had this cover then moved to other companies they asked for it to be part of their new contract ’ . |
| 8 | The idea of ‘ half-way ’ houses , where discharged patients lived for a year or eighteen months and then moved to ordinary independent living , became fashionable in the 1960s . |
| 9 | She dealt with them , then attended to various other tasks which kept her occupied for the remainder of the afternoon . |
| 10 | She saw how the dark room had filled with transparent figures who marched along the walls singing and mocking , who wrapped themselves around her so that she was suffocated in their embrace , then turned to broken bricks and choking mortar dust which cascaded in torrents on to her , flattening her to the bed so that her limbs ached with pain and she could n't move . |
| 11 | This preparation was then applied to standard silica gel thin layer chromatography plates together with phosphatidylcholine , cholesteryl oleate , and oleic acid standards . |
| 12 | The Attorney-General took proceedings in the Court of Exchequer against those landowners who refused to compound : where necessary he obtained a writ of injunction sequestrating the assarted lands , which were then leased to other tenants . |
| 13 | This ‘ doctrine invented in Europe at the beginning of the nineteenth century ’ was then exported to other parts of the world as a result of colonial expansion , and this — rather than any popular revolt against colonial rule — accounts for the nationalist movements of the twentieth century , led by nationalist intellectuals who are ‘ marginal ’ to their own societies . |
| 14 | These independent structures are then transformed to dependent ones : " After she had swept the room " , etc. , and made part of a complex sentence . |
| 15 | The dealers then resorted to extraordinary preventive measures , such as keeping sellers indefinitely " on hold " until they rang off , or simply cutting them off immediately . |
| 16 | The remaining PCR product was then bound to streptavidin-coated Dynabeads ( Dynal ) according to manufacturer 's instructions ( 4 ) and denatured using 100 µl 0.1 M NaOH . |
| 17 | The fund is then redistributed to local authorities at a fixed rate per adult , with extra finance made available to those local authorities with special problems . |
| 18 | Mrs Andrews and the boys were then driven to isolated woods 30 miles away while a frantic Mr Andrews , who was told his sons would be castrated if he failed to co-operate , delivered the ransom . |
| 19 | Mrs Andrews and the boys were then driven to isolated woods 30 miles away . |
| 20 | The mechanical linkage is set to give a very large control range which is then reduced to manageable proportions by means of the transmitter throw adjustment . |
| 21 | According to analyses based on the 1983 Labour Force Survey , migration 's role in swelling the South 's labour force was then restricted to non-manual workers ; though unemployment rates for manual workers were markedly higher in the North than the South , there was no net migration of manual workers to the South ( Hughes and McCormick , 1987a ) . |
| 22 | The other trial that compared heparin and aspirin plus thrombolysis is that of the National Heart Foundation ; selected patients treated with tPA and 24 h intravenous heparin were then randomised to continued intravenous heparin or aspirin ( 300 mg ) plus dipyridamole ( 300 mg ) daily for a week . |
| 23 | Falcon s/n 157 then reverted to civilian registration marks , carrying C-GRSD-X at first , and later losing the -X suffix , to become C-GRSD . |
| 24 | That it was erected , operated for a short while and then reverted to ignominious dereliction are all true . |
| 25 | Thus Oke ( 1978 ) emphasized the physical basis of physical , topo- , local- , meso- and regional climates in the boundary layer climates of the lowest kilometre of the atmosphere , then proceeded to deal with natural climates of non-vegetated and vegetated surfaces , topographically affected climates and the climates of animals , and then progressed to man-modified environments embracing conscious and unconscious modification of boundary-layer climates particularly those including urban climates . |
| 26 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into a computer and then converted to electronic form to allow further processing . |
| 27 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into a computer and then converted to electronic form to allow further processing . |
| 28 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into a computer and then converted to electronic form to allow further processing . |
| 29 | The anger among Asian teenagers which Geeta and I noticed in 1974 has of course since then led to Asian boys hitting back . |
| 30 | But for the Formalists meaning and ideas are neither here nor there ; like reality , they enter into literature as part of the available material which is then put to literary use by the functional devices of the work . |