Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] then [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As such , criminal law categories are resources , tools , instruments , designed and then used to criminalize , demoralize , incapacitate , fracture and sometimes eliminate those problem populations perceived by the powerful to be potentially or actually threatening the existing distribution of power , wealth , and privilege . |
| 2 | A training database is created by encoding samples of handwriting using this technique , and at run-time the input is similarly encoded and then compared with the characters stored in the database . |
| 3 | In a water test , the drain is also stoppered and then filled with water to see whether this can be retained . |
| 4 | Other commands to validate and execute either a search , navigation or trail request are parsed and then sent to the appropriate process . |
| 5 | Marx 's views will first be briefly summarized and then examined in more detail . |
| 6 | You 'd have to take them all in to be examined , then see if there was any fraying around the trousers and you had n't reported it , for ordinary wear and tear had to be reported and then taken in for repair — you could n't repair it yourself . |
| 7 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 8 | Julia stopped and then added in a quick toneless voice , ‘ The actual facts you already know . |
| 9 | Officers are fed up with seeing offenders caught and then released by the court . |
| 10 | She concludes that women 's views need to be considered and then synthesised with men 's to ‘ find a human whole ’ . |
| 11 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 12 | This does not make it impossible for a domestic market to be dominated and then abused , but it is far less likely to happen . |
| 13 | There was a sharp crack as the first of several skins of heat-resistant material which coated the exterior of the pod shattered and then separated . |
| 14 | May be sniffed , or burned and then inhaled ( chasing the dragon ) or injected . |
| 15 | The wound was cleaned daily with sodium chloride 0.9% , the hydrogen peroxide cream applied and then covered with a non-adherent dressing and secured with a bandage . |
| 16 | They hope the experiment will help them find out why a mother and baby were cremated and then buried in the centre of a large earth mound |
| 17 | They hope the experiment will help them find out why a mother and baby were cremated and then buried in the centre of a large earth mound |
| 18 | That an idea can be selected and then clothed in words so that it will live forever appeals to me . |
| 19 | Dismembered bits of poor Montrose were collected and then buried with honour in St Giles , the High Kirk of Edinburgh . |
| 20 | It 's all collected into , into plastic er cans and you do n't use gallons of it , you , you used enough to clean yourself off , and that 's collected and then disposed of er under advice and help from the disposal , waste disposal people . |
| 21 | Brussels sprouts , summer cabbage , calabrese and leeks can be sown in a seed bed — a nursery area of the vegetable plot where seedlings are grown and then transplanted to rows on the main plot at a later date . |
| 22 | They also found that weed growth could be substantially decreased if radishes were grown and then cultivated into the soil . |
| 23 | The several price quotations which have been collected for each of the 350 items in the ‘ basket ’ must be averaged and then divided by the average price of that item in January 1985 . |
| 24 | To get out of bed , for instance , the patient is turned onto his side or lifted and then brought into the sitting position on the side of the bed . |
| 25 | Before departing , we ate and then headed off to the Crucible Theatre for the evening . |
| 26 | Servicing of steam locomotive No. 90 was carried out at the Severn Valley Railway Works at Bridgenorth where a complete new firebox and boiler was made and then shipped to Galway for installation . |
| 27 | Their official car , following behind the royals , was stopped and then forced into a police compound . |
| 28 | Using equations ( 6.9 ) and ( 6. 10 ) the required Poisson values can be calculated very rapidly ; they are particularly suited to a pocket calculator , as the starting value can be calculated and then modified by multiplying the contents of the calculator by the packing density and dividing by the next value of ‘ x ’ : 1 when the calculator holds p(0) , 2 when it holds p(1) and so on . |
| 29 | All the training data have to be collected and paired and then sorted before the main clustering stage can begin . |
| 30 | The willow is cut between January and March , left in water until it starts to sprout and then peeled and dried . |