Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] then " in BNC.
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| 1 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 2 | So I phoned her last Nancy phoned me last Friday afternoon before she went on holiday to tell me , and I phoned I was n't sure whether just to sort of play it low key or then I thought , Well I know I really should just give here a wee ring . |
| 3 | As capacities evolved , they may have combined with others that have evolved for quite different reasons to create new characteristics that then acquired an evolutionary life of their own . |
| 4 | S but what they say is part of his managerial status demanded him having a company car to which I was given one as well but in effect that then became his wife 's because he was still banned for drink driving . |
| 5 | The time ends with the coming of Chaos and the time of violence that then ensued . |
| 6 | In these circumstances , it might well have modified its present adaptation to ground dwelling and nesting to something more appropriate to the more complex tundra environments that then existed . |
| 7 | Mark on parallel lines with the pastry wheel and then use it to wrap round the sides of the cake . |
| 8 | In other words , they created a self-image and then sold it to the greater powers of western Europe ; and whatever their reaction , be it incredulous , admiring or contemptuous , these powers now found it impossible to ignore the Scots ' insistent demands that they should be noticed . |
| 9 | I think the government giving money for the National Endowment for the Arts and then trying to decide what 's art and what is n't is a mistake . |
| 10 | Only when they have examined what hands , arms , legs and feet , body and above all the head can do in isolation and then in harmony with the story , theme or music , can they set out and create a style which will be general in structure and particular in texture , with the right quality , mood , emotion , action and character . |
| 11 | The exploration of what each part of the body can express in isolation and then in co-ordination with the rest is possibly the most important aspect of a choreographer 's work if it seeks to be modern in spirit and technique . |
| 12 | Lenin was willing to make concessions , but not on the centralized unity of the party — ‘ we must not weaken the force of our offensive by breaking into numerous independent political parties ; we must not introduce estrangement and isolation and then have to heal an artificially implanted disease with the aid of these notorious ‘ federal ’ , plasters ’ . |
| 13 | We can test this theory by using matrix isolation and then employing standard techniques such as in the study of stable molecules . |
| 14 | To do that you need to add limestone which then converts into er calcium oxide in the heat of the blast furnace and then reacts with the sand to form slag . |
| 15 | Normally a control group and an experimental group are constituted deliberately by matching subjects on relevant characteristics and then randomly allocating one of each matched pair to the control or the experimental group respectively . |
| 16 | I paint the main tree using a slightly stronger mix using a sponge and then paint in the finer detail with a brush . |
| 17 | At 26 Mr MacConachie went into banking with Lloyds and then into finance with the Ford Motor Company , rising to a senior management position during ‘ ten very happy years ’ working all over the UK . |
| 18 | A local biologist , Rocio L pez , claims that heavy rains wash nematicides into the waterways and then into the ocean . |
| 19 | No patients would be identified and the information would be confidentially passed to the British Medical Association and then on to the Home Office . |
| 20 | Those who could not escape put in a token appearance , showing themselves before the delegates from their local constituency association and then scuttling off on the first train back to civilization . |
| 21 | Brown released his safety belt and removed his gloves , and with a crippled leg from the war , scrambled onto the centre section of the fuselage and then onto the wing . |
| 22 | They look more surprised than anybody when his heart restarts and then he makes a gurgling noise in his throat . |
| 23 | YOU could n't conceivably have two carriage processions coming from different parts of London to Westminster Abbey for the coronation and then going separate ways . |
| 24 | The usual thing was to hire diamonds from the court jeweller for the coronation and then return them . |
| 25 | Anyone who wished to hoax an archaeologist need only buy up Quirke 's stock and then sink it in a bog to be rediscovered . |
| 26 | Clearly there is a range of similar applications such as warehouses and supermarkets where someone has to go around checking stock and then enter the data into a computer . |
| 27 | The other two players were both club men , Glenn Brill , a Silverdale forward with a brief North Harbour record , and Nigel Ward , a high-scoring loose forward with Silverdale and then Northcote in recent times , but with no real chance of becoming a regular North Harbour player . |
| 28 | There are , but they 've got his brother , his , Sam 's boyfriend 's brother , and his girlfriend and then their friends as well and they 're both , they 're all Kiwis , they 're , they 're all over from |
| 29 | He was followed first by Hawkbit and then by Fiver . |
| 30 | The try came after good work by Gordon Lawrie and then a blindside move featuring Mike Allingham and Andy McRobbie which allowed Russell Adam to go over at the corner . |