Example sentences of "[conj] then [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The OR then calls a meeting of creditors to decide whether they will make the debtor bankrupt or let him off by accepting an arrangement for less than 100 per cent of their debts to be paid in full and final settlement . |
| 2 | There is nothing to make it in the firm 's best interests actually to follow through with the punishment in the period following a deviation , given the game that then presents itself . |
| 3 | How can a child feel able to tell , and have confidence in those who say they have their ‘ best interests ’ in mind , when the person they have named as their abuser is to be involved in everything that then happens to them ? |
| 4 | The second possibility is that there may not be the clear difference between fiction and non-fiction for the young reader that then appears to be for the adult . |
| 5 | Serious iron deficiency is most likely to occur in chalky soils where , although iron may well be present , lime locks on to it in a chemical combination that then makes it unavailable to plant uptake . |
| 6 | Ageist assumptions connecting old age with ill-health can often arise from the extreme social isolation and withdrawal experienced by many older people , the self-neglect that this can cause , and the illness that then arises from this neglect . |
| 7 | In that horrid state , the mind may be considered as a city without walls , open to every insult , and paying homage to every invader ; every idea that then starts with any force , becomes a reality ; and the reason , over fatigued with its former importunities , makes no head against the tyrannical invasion , but submits to it from mere imbecility . |
| 8 | That produces something that then moves on to discussions |
| 9 | Yes , Chair , I , I mean I support the criteria that 's been laid out in five two there , I think it 's very important that we do actually , important that we do actually highlight the issue of low pay , and where it 's occurring , and in , in some way that then prevents companies , the , the unscrupulous type of companies that would come in to exploit that , from actually doing it , since most people would then be aware it , and I think that the last speaker 's just suggested that it 's an extremely cheap way of obtaining masses of information about Shropshire 's erm , earnings levels , and I think that 's very important that we are , and do come to grips with that , and clearly could n't afford officer time to be spent on , on merely collating that all the time . |
| 10 | From stile continue slightly downhill to lake , then follow right side of lake on clear path that then ascends past old slate quarries , at top of which is a dark pool just on right of path 6 . |
| 11 | The fundamental question that then has to be answered is , who pays the bills ? |
| 12 | It seems clear that extensive areas of trees reduce recharge to the underlying aquifers , the forest canopies intercepting rainfall that then evaporates . |
| 13 | How can viruses induce cells to enter the cycle of rapid multiplication that then leads on to the development of a tumour ? |
| 14 | I do n't know whether this is necessary but Caroline erm , but when we take on a new type of business which is n't covered by our current procedures erm , say electronic data collection or something , which up until then has been done on paper , that we ought to have some simple statement in a procedure about how we are going to er , ma , ensure that we 've got a new set of procedures to deal with that new type of , new system . |
| 15 | It tries to deduce what , if anything , the author has to say , and then nags him into saying it clearly . |
| 16 | Just like a vaulter 's carbon fibre pole , FUSION conserves and then re-distributes energy — for stunning propulsion effect . |
| 17 | The spatial modelling approach uses the local spaces to represent the physical arrangement of primary points within each component and then employs the associative procedures to establish and maintain their geometric assembly . |
| 18 | The present paper looks first at the general context of the discussions within Ashdown School and then outlines some of the issues that emerged from the research . |
| 19 | Samples were thawed , vortexed , and then centrigudes at 10000 g for one minute . |
| 20 | Ruth Gardner reviews the arguments for inclusion of service users ' views , and then surveys some national and local research studies which reflect consumer views . |
| 21 | Conversely , the stallholder in the fruit and vegetable market who puts all his best tomatoes at the front of the pile and then fills the customer 's bag with soft squelchy ones from the back is deliberately showing the purchaser a false sample . |
| 22 | And Jonathan lets the water out , and then fills it back up again . |
| 23 | When it spots an insect on overhanging vegetation , it lines itself up and then shoots a jet of water from its mouth to knock the insect out of the air . |
| 24 | He begins with a sound presentation of basic principles of probability theory and then discusses the concept of entropy , including that of genetic sequences . |
| 25 | The second session begins with a few limbering-up exercises and then goes immediately to the selection . |
| 26 | He just brings stuff for Ibrahim and then goes . |
| 27 | ‘ Ah ! ’ she says , and then goes over to the other side of the shop . |
| 28 | She says thanks and then goes off . |
| 29 | The Orderly Officer inspects the duty staff on staff parade and then goes on her rounds to check the perimeter fence . |
| 30 | A female courts one or more males and then goes round laying eggs in nests prepared by them on the ground . |