Example sentences of "[was/were] then an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether he will be as successful again is open to doubt , because his own playing career was then an issue and he had substantial sympathy backing both inside and outside the committee and membership . |
| 2 | Leck was then an area of bare moorland with the occasional huddled hill farm , and in the true eighteenth-century manner of fashionable landscapers like Brown , Welch planted trees in clumps and woods to create the most beautiful park . |
| 3 | One was Thereza Imanishi-Kari , who was then an immunologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) . |
| 4 | But the idea of closer political ties with England had first been mooted as far back as the late fifteenth century , by James III ; and even though it was then an extremely unpopular policy , it was an idea which never again quite went away . |
| 5 | She urged me to go with her to concerts and the theatre , and took me as her guest to the Edinburgh International Club which , owing to the presence of so many servicemen from overseas , was then an active and flourishing society . |
| 6 | Polonium was then an irreplaceable part of the bomb . |
| 7 | Mary was then an attractive dark-haired lady , slightly plump , with swept-back hair falling into ringlets — full in the face , and quite striking in appearance . |
| 8 | 1992 is the 21st anniversary of the start of what was then an idea . |
| 9 | The smallness of the earth was arguably felt more vividly in the medieval than the modern system , for there was then an absolute standard of comparison — the immense size of the outermost sphere . |
| 10 | There was then an open toughness about party tactics ; before the Buckingham Palace Conference in 1914 he had Central Office work out the electoral effects of excluding nine , six or four counties of Ulster from an independent Ireland the concern of a calculating pragmatist not of a bigot . |
| 11 | In return for this concession the English government obtained a number of crucial episcopal appointments , not least the translation of Sudbury to Canterbury ; moreover , the good offices of the pope were assured in the current peace negotiations ; finally , some of the money would find its way back to the English crown for the ransom of the pope 's brother , Roger Beaufort , who was then an English prisoner of war . |
| 12 | But it was built in 1751 as an inland lighthouse to guide travellers across what was then an empty open and desolate countryside . |
| 13 | With the increase in the price of oil due to the Gulf crisis , however , what was then an uneconomical proposition now looks rather healthier . |
| 14 | It was then an overgrown jungle , swamp-ridden and mosquito-infested , but in this unlikely environment I saw my dream . ’ |
| 15 | We both went to state primary schools ; we both passed the 11-plus ; we both had local government scholarships — the hon. Gentleman went to a direct grant school while I went to what was then an independent school . |
| 16 | Ronald Magill , who later became known to millions of television viewers as Amos Brearly in Emmerdale , was then an actor at the Nottingham Playhouse , as well as its associate director , and spoke the first words in the new theatre . |