Example sentences of "was then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was to go down to the Supersight factory for some practice with Harley and was then to go with him to a couple of the Continental tournaments . ’ |
| 2 | Erm I think we need to endorse the action taken by the judicial treasurer and then if we was then to go onto second bits , which is urging the churches to give five percent more than that in the past you could debate that se separately . |
| 3 | The custom was then to take a seat in the steam-filled lobby , by her table and chair ( ‘ desk ’ would be to exaggerate ) , while she prepared a cubicle . |
| 4 | Two years after Gundovald 's death , it was discovered that the dux Rauching was plotting with the followers of Chlothar II to assassinate Childebert ; he was then to take control of Theudebert , the king 's elder son , and of Champagne ; two other men , Ursio and Berthefred , were to seize Theuderic and the rest of Childebert 's kingdom ; Brunhild was to be ousted from power . |
| 5 | It was then called Cadbury Brothers . |
| 6 | Kingfisher — or Woolworths as it was then called — was still being reshaped under the guidance of Mulcahy and his team , who had spearheaded a buy-out of the company from its US parent four years earlier . |
| 7 | Stanley Kalms , the Dixons chief whose own bid for what was then called Woolworths was repulsed three years ago , said the offer document did not disguise an attempt to acquire his company on the cheap . |
| 8 | On 30 January , 1950 , after five months of agonized discussion and contradictory advice , President Truman gave the go-ahead for a crash research programme into the hydrogen or ‘ super ’ bomb , as it was then called . |
| 9 | In 1964 , when Pople left the UK for the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh , as it was then called , his departure inspired one popular British newspaper to the headline Another brain down the drain , but given the lamentable levels of financial support by successive UK governments for the theoretical research in which Pople was to excel , it is unlikely he could have achieved so much without moving . |
| 10 | Chief Constable Burrows was then called to see if he could throw any light on the missing statement . |
| 11 | At the time the L & B railway was built there were no railway carriage building firms so that underframes for original stock were constructed at Euston or , as it was then called , Euston Grove Station , while bodies were built by a West End road vehicle builder and carted from his works to the station . |
| 12 | The secretary was then called in , and after a serious address from the chairman , he was informed of the resolution of the general meeting , and that he was dismissed from the service of the College . |
| 13 | In 1939 when I arrived with my gas mask from Newcastle they lived in a farm in the grounds of a castle in what was then called Cumberland ( and still should be ) . |
| 14 | We used to have student teachers in from what was then called Borough Road Training College . |
| 15 | Following the fragment is the first in our series chronicling the origins , the political range of what was then called the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 16 | All the best people , it seemed , used to die of ‘ consumption ’ — as it was then called . |
| 17 | No test was available for HTLV3 ( as it was then called ) , but an immunologist established that my immune system had abnormalities . |
| 18 | Purley depôt was then called upon to provide on Monday-Fridays , 10 cars on the 16/18 through service , 6 cars on 16/18 short workings and 13 cars on route 42 . |
| 19 | It was anticipated that a new Labour government under MacDonald would close down MI 1c ( as DI6 was then called ) in the interest of economy and aspirations of international brotherhood . |
| 20 | When he was up and about , he also spent some time in the kitchen , having become what was then called a ‘ health-food fanatic ’ . |
| 21 | She was the daughter of a respected and well-to-do burgess of Lynne ( as King 's Lynn was then called ) who had been five times Mayor , and Alderman of the High Guild of the Trinity . |
| 22 | Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ . |
| 23 | Then there was a big show of Miró in New York in the late Sixties that got a good review in what was then called The Herald Tribune . |
| 24 | Benefit was refused or withdrawn on grounds of ‘ cohabitation ’ ( as it was then called ) in about 8000 cases a year . |
| 25 | Nevertheless the Trotskyists themselves split , on the issue of whether or not to co-operate with the ICP , and , just as the VNQDD had been destroyed as a competitor with the Communist Party by French repression after Yen-Bay , so the French colonial government , shortly after war had begun in 1939 , rounded up virtually the entire leadership of the Trotskyist International Communist League , as it was then called : a coup from which the movement never recovered . |
| 26 | The writer often called the tune and imposed his ideas on the art director and visualiser , as a junior art director was then called . |
| 27 | Saettler ( 1968 ) has admirably charted the development of audio-visual instruction in the United States , picking on the six years , 1918–24 as the key period when what was then called the " visual instruction " movement properly emerged . |
| 28 | Price was then called to give evidence in person on behalf of the applicant , and he again repudiated his evidence before the Swedish court in so far as it implicated the applicant , on the ground that his evidence had been obtained by pressure exerted upon him by officers of the Swedish and Norwegian police . |
| 29 | Cajuns were originally French/Canadian settlers , driven out by the British in the mid-18th century from what was then called Arcadia , now Nova Scotia . |
| 30 | They either assumed that what appeared in such a paper was nonsense or establishment propaganda , or they read such papers as the Manchester Guardian , as it was then called . |