Example sentences of "[coord] then [vb base] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ask each committee or team that meets regularly to calculate its running costs and then insist that these are halved . |
| 2 | In this section , I will first summarize his account , and then argue that it does not save the falsificationist from the objections of section 1 . |
| 3 | They will put the moment off for as long as possible or refuse to acknowledge that it is coming along and then protest that they were not told . |
| 4 | But he says , it 's no need to be expensive but he said , do n't go out and buy a set of bowls and then hope that you 're gon na like it . |
| 5 | It is very easy to devise a machine that will punch one rivet hole every six inches , but imagine a column of newsprint in which every letter o was a hole through the paper , and then imagine that the paper was magnified to a width of two feet and pasted onto a sheet of wrought iron , half an inch thick . |
| 6 | All you have to do is grow a beard and look rugged , take a bunch of gullible kids from good homes , make their parents pay through the nose to let them sleep in bunks and eat beans , and then pretend that mundane things are difficult or unusual . |
| 7 | Anyone who supposes this case to be exceptional should try to reconcile the community of which he or she is genuinely a member with the constituency in which he or she now votes , and then remember that an STV constituency would be three , four , five or more times larger . |
| 8 | Nor is it enough to give them details of exercise and sport and then assume that they will simply become more active . |
| 9 | It would be absurd if , following the Hayes and Garvin criticism of DCF , companies were to drop it and then assume that funds had a zero cost . |
| 10 | In this case , they suggest , the hearer is encouraged to think of all the implicatures that the speaker could reasonably have expected someone to have derived from the proposition that his childhood days are gone , and then assume that there are still further implicatures that the speaker wants to back . |
| 11 | A minister who can applaud dole staff redundancies and then claim that those clerks who keep their jobs will find them more interesting , is obviously in the wrong post . |
| 12 | We do not , on the Cavell model , first discover certain truths about an object and then conclude that it is a person ; we first acknowledge the person and only inquire into facts later if necessary . |
| 13 | One might labour for years and then discover that one 's thoughts simply concealed some devilish machine . ’ |
| 14 | You do so at an unfamiliar garage and then discover that the one you had planned to stop at was closed . |
| 15 | But first let us examine the facts and then ensure that we are looking after our physical selves as well as possible . |
| 16 | When this is the case the churches can ask to provide their material to add to the pack , and then ensure that they follow up with a personal call . |
| 17 | The diamond design shown in the opposite photograph is really an adaptation of the solid design ( see pp. 80–1 ) , although in this case you have to make a very definite outline with the leaves and then ensure that it is echoed in the shape that the flowers make in the centre of the design . |
| 18 | ‘ Why does a woman work 10 years to change a man 's habits and then complain that he 's not the man she married ? ’ |
| 19 | The job of the buyers is to assess the health needs of people in their area and then see that those needs are met as quickly and effectively as possible . |
| 20 | When you are very much in love with someone , and then believe that they are dead … |
| 21 | Imagine a Turing-like process generating a pattern in a sheet of cells , and then suppose that the local concentration of some substance activates particular sets of genes in particular places . |
| 22 | These organisms , which could trap solar energy in a pigment , and then convert that solar energy into chemical energy , were self-perpetuating . |
| 23 | And then check that everyone 's ready for visitors . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps you could blow out the candles in here and then check that the ones in the living-room are safe ? |
| 25 | Now I think that approach to health care is fundamentally wrong , because you measure the needs of a patient in one moment and then suggest that the needs of that , that the needs of that patient will continue to be the same in subsequent weeks or subsequent months . |
| 26 | What proportion of asylum seekers come into this country on visitors ' permits and then decide that they are in fear of persecution just as their permits come to an end ? |
| 27 | A good concept is to turn and then feel that you attack the ball along the line of the hips before allowing the legs and body to release through into a full turn . |
| 28 | You do n't want to work hard for a year establishing your act , get offered a tour , and then find that your drummer wo n't give up his milk round . |
| 29 | After a few hits most brag that they can compete ( Britain 's Goldcrest is a famous example ) and then find that one big failure ( ‘ Revolution ’ ) destroys them . |
| 30 | I much prefer to find my own swims , not because I think I can find better swims than anyone else , but because I get a great deal of satisfaction from being able to study a piece of water , select a swim as a likely chub haunt , and then find that I am right . |