Example sentences of "[was/were] then no " 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 | 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 ? |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 ) . |
8 | Fifty years ago this was not the case ; there was then no apparent threat to any but a few species . |