Example sentences of "[was/were] then [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These women , later to become signs , reminders of a special obligation to peacefulness , were then no doubt promoters of good relations , channels for negotiation and sociability , and organizers of further marriages during their lifetimes . |
| 2 | There were then no consenting adults , only criminals , even if the ‘ crimes ’ were usually victimless . |
| 3 | On his death there were then no freehold estates to pass and therefore no liability to feudal dues . |
| 4 | According to estimates there were then a mere thousand radio receivers in the entire country . |
| 5 | These captives may even have been used to lure and help catch wild elephants of which there were then a great number . |
| 6 | On the Sunday after the beginning of the War , with his son wearing the embarrassingly new cap and blazer that were then the proud symbols of recruitment to the grammar-school élite , my father drove my grandmother back to her home village of Kidlington in Oxfordshire . |
| 7 | But when the inns did begin to improve they brought a great influx of visitors and by 1817 an observer remarks : ‘ Thirty years earlier simplicity and hospitality were then the character of the people … . |
| 8 | We were then the greatest industrial nation on earth . |
| 9 | When I took my first weekend break in Paris in the early 70 's I booked with Cresta Holidays who were then the leading Manchester/Paris weekend break specialists . |
| 10 | He was therefore reduced to spending most of his weekends during the session in what were then the fairly cramped quarters of 11 Downing Street and what , then as more recently , was its unrestful and unrefreshing atmosphere . |
| 11 | Holidays in medicinal spas were then the privilege of the wealthy . |
| 12 | And he needed to judge what voluntary-aided status meant to a newly combined school in what were then the 1980s . |
| 13 | Or there was the horse-racing , cricket or football in the parkland , a visit to the skating-rink , or simply marvelling at the mixture of bravura , vulgarity and confidence with which the Victorians had dropped this gigantic testament to British economic expansion into what were then the sleepy rural outskirts of the fast-expanding city . |
| 14 | The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1960s , when water from its tributaries began to be diverted for agricultural irrigation in what were then the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . |
| 15 | Just over 100 years ago in 1890 , George Eastman , the bank clerk who turned his hobby into a world-wide business , bought the land in what were then the fields of North West London . |
| 16 | But is this because there was then no machinery for collecting and distributing the money or because there was no authority-imposed duty to pay it ? |
| 17 | We can agree with him therefore that the Pioneers were wrong in their view that the abolition of workers ' rights , expressed as a bonus to labour , was a misdirection of the Movement — but wrong only because there was then no other direction for it to take . |
| 18 | There was then no one in Oxford working in cosmology , but at Cambridge there was Fred Hoyle , the most distinguished British astronomer of the time . |
| 19 | He made such thorough notes that it was then no great labour to produce a similar Biographical Register for Cambridge ( 1963 ) — in 1958 he estimated that such a work could be completed within eighteen months — and a more summary Survey of Dominicans in England , based on the Ordination Lists in Episcopal Registers ( 1268–1538 ) ( Rome , 1967 ) . |
| 20 | Fifty years ago this was not the case ; there was then no apparent threat to any but a few species . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 22 | FISA was then a relatively unimportant body which organised European and other championships and participated in the running of Olympic regattas . |
| 23 | Singapore was then a fast-growing city-state of more than two million inhabitants . |
| 24 | Real life was then a male preserve but Helen had no interest in the usual option of the women 's pages . |
| 25 | He was then a flight sergeant with 104 Mobile Signals Unit in the Middle East . |
| 26 | Milner-White was then a charming young man of rather Anglo-Catholic opinions who was beginning to make himself an expert both on stained glass and on ways of English worship and prayer . |
| 27 | St Chad 's College in Durham , which was then a theological college , tried to get him as its Principal . |
| 28 | The Hungerfords of Farleigh Hungerford , the all-powerful local family in medieval times , bought Iford , which was then a mill , in 1369 and held on to it for four centuries . |
| 29 | A Bristol merchant , of Quaker origin , called William Springett bought Alderly in the early 1740s and determined to turn what was then a small and jumbled Tudor manor into an up-to-date gentleman 's seat . |
| 30 | In July 1663 , Richard Baxter left London for reasons of health and went to live in Acton , which was then a village six miles west of the capital . |