Example sentences of "was then [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Fifty years ago this was not the case ; there was then no apparent threat to any but a few species . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | FISA was then a relatively unimportant body which organised European and other championships and participated in the running of Olympic regattas . |
| 8 | Singapore was then a fast-growing city-state of more than two million inhabitants . |
| 9 | Real life was then a male preserve but Helen had no interest in the usual option of the women 's pages . |
| 10 | He was then a flight sergeant with 104 Mobile Signals Unit in the Middle East . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | St Chad 's College in Durham , which was then a theological college , tried to get him as its Principal . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 17 | Of course he was then a half-trained recruit , and now he was fully acquainted with danger and better able to assess it ( or , perhaps , on the contrary , more apt to underrate it ) . |
| 18 | The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior shadowed the march from the sea , unloading a wind turbine to join a display of alternative energy equipment set up amid a cluster of marquees and caravans on what was then a rolling green field . |
| 19 | Clive Knox was then a teenager on the family farm right next to the construction site ; some of his father 's land was taken for the development . |
| 20 | Most informal of all were the periods spent at the Villa Eugénie at Biarritz , the house built by the Emperor for his wife at what was then a small fishing port which she had known long before her marriage . |
| 21 | Patricia Miller , who was to dance in many of John 's later ballets , was then a student in Cape Town . |
| 22 | Doctor Bailey was then a young man in his twenties , newly qualified and recently married and settled in this his first practice . |
| 23 | No , it 's too easy to forget that something which I hardly ever think about now was then a very great concern . |
| 24 | Sheviock was then a typical Cornish church-town , isolated from the newer and busier settlement of Crafthole , which held a regular fair and was described as ‘ … a poor village but a much frequented thoroughfare ’ . |
| 25 | There was then a single race , the Rouge Flamande , but plenty of argument about whether it should be uniform red or pied . |
| 26 | The winner 's conker was then a oner , when it had disposed of two it became a twoer , but if it should then beat a threeer it then became a fiver . |
| 27 | When the Palace were drawn to face Rangers again in the 3rd round of the FA Cup in January 1946 , in which no ‘ guests ’ were eligible to play , the club hurried the petitioned move through , at what was then a club record fee of £5,000 . |
| 28 | The face make-up was known as ‘ fleshing ’ ; it was then a natural colour , not the tan that became popular later on . |
| 29 | There was then a complex discussion of reflexes which both Millers enjoyed but was n't all that easy to follow for the uninitiated . |
| 30 | Cromwell 's soldiers were close behind , and Charles , on the advice of loyal friends , sought refuge here in what was then a remote hunting lodge , already known as a safe house for Royalist fugitives . |