Example sentences of "then [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 2 | One half has then to be turned over before the two halves are trimmed and married up . |
| 3 | The meaning of the October Revolution was then to be explained to anyone who bothered to turn up . |
| 4 | In particular , essentialist conceptions of the self which took effective hold only in the Enlightenment , then to be subsequently developed within ( for instance ) Romanticism and modernism , have been retrospectively read into the early modern period . |
| 5 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 6 | But then to be good at a sport , really good I mean , you have to learn how to do what you are doing naturally in the best way possible . |
| 7 | This operatic adaptation of classical tragedy , Euripides and Seneca distantly viewed via Corneille , proved then to be a formidable vehicle for a great singing actress . |
| 8 | This operatic adaptation of classical tragedy , Euripides and Seneca distantly viewed via Corneille , proved then to be a formidable vehicle for a great singing actress . |
| 9 | We make settlements by which we provide that property shall devolve from one person to another within the limits which the law allows , e.g. to a man , then to his wife , then to be divided among his children . |
| 10 | What had appeared then to be contentment turned out now to be cold loneliness . |
| 11 | The remainder of the forest wastes was in most cases divided between the lords of the manors and the commoners , in proportion to the value of their interests : the allotments were then to be fenced at the expense of the proprietors . |
| 12 | These are incorporated in UK export controls , though an Open General Export Licence allows then to be exported to other countries within the Australia Group . |
| 13 | You want me to be angry , which I ca n't be , and then to be soothing , which I can be . |
| 14 | From the beginning of the fourth year , and especially for as long as pupils were legally free to leave school at the end of that year , very much more definite choices were made : ‘ Newsom ’ courses for those who were to leave , examination courses for most of the rest , with many decisions then to be taken about which subjects to drop , and which to pursue . |
| 15 | John wrote to Hanns at the end of May that Tamara Karsavina , a former star of the Diaghilev Ballet , was planning to use Brae and Carter in a ballet ‘ for some small society … and it 's then to be repeated when Alan Carter is away on tour — and she 's trying me out ! |
| 16 | We tend to forget the immense labour involved in forging the literally thousands of wire rings , which had then to be beaten flat , holes drilled into each end , and rivets added . |
| 17 | But , because I can not accept the idea of total predestination , it has then to be the human being who either succeeds or fails . |
| 18 | He was condemned to have his tongue cut out , his right hand chopped off and then to be burned . |
| 19 | I did all I could to encourage Bernstein to chat with John , who seemed even then to be developing into one of Canada 's most versatile and brilliant conductors . |
| 20 | The house had then to be fumigated , and Ann and 1 were in quarantine for six weeks . |
| 21 | The head needs then to be very conscious of the use of time . |
| 22 | You learn to be middle aged and then to be old aged . |
| 23 | It must have been the last straw to a tired Lancaster crew to have home in sight , and then to be attacked by a fighter . |
| 24 | They know the truth : that life with an aged parent can be a strange mixture of joy and sorrow , and all they ask is for that fact to be accepted , not glossed over by their family and society , and then to be offered some practical ideas on how to make the best of a good job , which they consider to be well worth doing . |
| 25 | This knitting was then to be washed and thoroughly steam pressed . |
| 26 | Perhaps for lack of alternatives , the left in both countries is gambling on being allowed to fight fair elections , to take power if they win , and then to be able to implement real reforms in government . |
| 27 | Neither was there the level of ability among an elite of managers for decision making to take place at that level in the organisation and then to be passed down by functionaries , as in the French system . |
| 28 | All parts of the body were then to be carefully washed in spirits of wine before proceeding to the third stage , which consisted in the injection of the body a second time — his system being an amalgam of that advocated by Robert Boyle and Ruysch — and the viscera , should it be considered necessary . |
| 29 | A more recent review of the issue of imputation in the sociology of knowledge by Alan Scott suggests that the problem is with seeing knowledge/ideology as separate from the social grouping to which it has then to be linked by imputation . |
| 30 | Eight members were then to be added by the pope . |