Example sentences of "then of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talks which Lewis gave to the RAF were on such basic issues as ‘ Why we think there is a Right and Wrong ’ , and from such simple beginnings he framed , in language which was meant to be arresting to ordinary men in the ranks , an exposition first of the theist position , then of the Christian religion . |
| 2 | He therefore set out to produce a corrected text first of the letters of Paul his hero , then of the gospel of Paul 's companion Luke ( the other gospels being scrapped ) , which he thought the work of Paul himself in its original form . |
| 3 | The bond which assures the existence of the individual , and provides him with his basic loyalties to his father and brothers and cousins , is also the bond which assures the cohesion of the nations , and then of the world , ‘ but it does become weaker as the numbers become greater ’ . |
| 4 | He served as Deputy Lieutenant of Midlothian , and then of the City of Edinburgh , from 1956 to 1984 . |
| 5 | Coupled with the appointment of Sir Walter Marshall , an enthusiastic proponent of the PWR , first as chairman of the UKAEA and then of the CEGB , the door looked wide open for a third generation of British built , if not designed , nuclear power stations . |
| 6 | His lithographs of Palestinian villages and of Lebanon , of Tyre and the peninsula of Ras Naqourra , of the temples of Baalbek , are bathed only in the peace of antiquity , a nineteenth-century dream machine that would become more seductive as the decades saw the collapse of the Turkish and then of the British Empire . |
| 7 | Having weighed up all these factors , you are ready to make a preliminary capital budget of the costs of fencing , drainage , water supply , access , fertility , buildings , and farmhouse ; then of the purchase of livestock , machinery , and equipment . |
| 8 | Roads they were then of the Sidhe and of those who have dealings with the impalpable and the evanescent . |
| 9 | Captain of the 1975–76 team that won an FA Cup semi-final place for the first time in the club 's history , and then of the side which gained promotion to Division Two the following season , Ian 's future with us looked rosy indeed . |
| 10 | In 1964 at Ma'aden Ijafen , in southern Mauretania , Theodore Monod , then of the Institut Francais d'Afrique Novre , found 2085 brass bars abandoned by a camel caravan around the 12th or 13th century . |
| 11 | Indeed , the clarity of Hamelin 's articulation , often at the most break-neck speeds , reminds me now and then of the playing of John Ogdon , and there can be no higher praise than that . |
| 12 | But many archbishops were delighted by the excuse to go on pilgrimage to Rome ; and one of the first to benefit from the custom was Sigeric , archbishop of Canterbury ( 990 — 4 ) , who has left us a kind of diary of his visit — first of the churches in Rome which a pilgrim had especially to visit and to pray in , and then of the stages on his long journey back to Canterbury . |
| 13 | Relaxation is the basis of a number of these therapies , a calming and a relaxing , firstly of the body and then of the emotional and mental aspects . |
| 14 | With the adulterous woman who came to the village well to draw water , he spoke first of the water and then of the men in her life . |
| 15 | Political consciousness of the public would be enhanced by recognition of the benefits of cooperation , then of the need for cooperative representation . |
| 16 | All I knew then of the Luton case was what I had read in the papers and seen on television . |
| 17 | It soon became the language of Parliament , then of the Cabinet and of most areas of the civil service ; the law courts also began to use it . |
| 18 | Thus in a passage quoted by James , Wundt writes : ‘ If we touch first the back of one hand and then of the other , we remark a qualitative unlikeness of sensation . |
| 19 | Unless we are clear about these , in the case of human beings , and then of the grounds for proceeding to apply them to animals , we will be ill-prepared to assess the claim of the scientist or other trained observer that a segment of observed animal behaviour is thoughtful , or intentional , or hopeful , or self-conscious . |
| 20 | And so , from the sick wards in the old House of Industry and then of the Bedford Union , through the workhouse infirmary , St. Peter 's Hospital , providing a comprehensive range of services for the sick and injured poor of the district , had emerged from the chrysalis as the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 21 | Other pieces were variously dispersed , but two were recognised recently by Denys Haynes , ( then of the British Museum ) , at Fawley Court , Henley-on-Thames , and are now in the Ashmolean . |
| 22 | It must be said then of the attempt to re-read the history or literature of the past , that the only motivation for doing so can be that one is a Christian . |
| 23 | What then of the City ? |
| 24 | ‘ I thought then of the wife , the difficult woman with the nerves , St-Jean was talking about , whose caprices and demands had made his life so impossible . |
| 25 | What then of the Government 's claim that it is spending more money in income support than it would have done had the previous supplementary benefit system remained in place ? |
| 26 | Quantitatively it is indeed so , but the cultural specialization of literacy , and then of the true potential of the invention and the technology , led to significant internal hierarchies . |
| 27 | What then of the use made of schools by the various socio-economic groups ? |
| 28 | Calculations made by Don N. Page , then of the California Institute of Technology , and me , based on measurements of the cosmic background of gamma radiation made by the satellite SAS-2 , show that the average density of primordial black holes in the universe must be less than about two hundred per cubic light-year . |
| 29 | To conclude this section , it is clear that the approaches to aesthetic control in post-war urban Britain began well , though they soon attracted the hostility first of architects and then of the lay public . |
| 30 | But since her captivity , a babel seethed around her constantly , the cries and demands of Sycorax , the commands of the men on guard over her , the hammering and planing of the pales for the stockade and for the settlers ' other plans ; the shouts of the men from the boat-building on the beach , the barking of orders to bondsmen brought from England on the ship that had returned , the yells of slaves whom they had loaded in Dahomey or Yoruba on the journey back , and roped and chained and put to work under the whip , and the bellowing laughter now and then of the overseer , a tall African who had been taken out of chains himself to hold the lash over his fellows . |