Example sentences of "was then [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It discovered poor ground in general and was then below the eastern end of Kernal Crag and about 30 fathoms from the pumping/winding sump sinking below Fleming 's Level 210 ft. above . |
| 2 | The N1 cam was then outside the point cams . |
| 3 | This green was then under the wood approximately where the 5th tees are now , and very prone to dampness . |
| 4 | The debate within Labour 's ranks was then about how far and how fast they should be brought under the direct control of the state . |
| 5 | Well , well no , no because it was then about , that 's what I 'm is , then four o'clock you see , so I mean I knew I would n't make it anyway that 's why I thought I 'd better ring cos the job that we finished was half past three so I thought well even if I come home I shall be late even if I do n't get changed and washed or anything . |
| 6 | And then it was clearly seen er that not only were the changes in the , the er financial er arrangements for the introduction of the bonus scheme , with the introduction of a further fourpence and hour , with the introduction of the time factor on the job , as opposed to them starting , we 'll say , round about forty seven , forty eight , forty nine percent , the movement was then into the fifty percent bracket , fifty five percent . |
| 7 | It was then as if she hardly registered his arrival . |
| 8 | It was then as if the rotting maggot-infested flesh , or the tags of matted clothing , had already become part of the earth which clung to and enclosed them , no more unnatural or frightening than a clump of compost or a drift of decaying leaves . |
| 9 | As did the author of the book , who is a painter and who was then at the Slade , she discovered , he tells us , that ‘ the people with the beautiful faces were also , mysteriously , the ones it was most fun to be with ’ . |
| 10 | Clemens Krauss was then at the peak of his powers , as can be heard in his versions of Richard Strauss 's Ein Heldenleben and Don Juan with the Vienna Philharmonic . |
| 11 | One year later , she was private secretary to Mr Peter Lilley , who was then at the Treasury . |
| 12 | Lister was then at the height of his struggle against infection in surgical operations and took up this observation in experiments with bacterial cultures . |
| 13 | His output in these later years shows that he made every effort to adapt to changing economic circumstances : Austria was then at war with the Ottoman Empire , and the war effort had begun to drain the financial resources of the upper-class patrons on whose support Mozart relied . |
| 14 | Karaz Angkor was then at the zenith of its power . |
| 15 | When Charles arrived from Eton , where he was then at school , he had primed his friends beforehand to give false names . |
| 16 | This was well north of any line of march from Wales to the north east , which suggests that Gloucester had business in Lancashire and was not just en route to join his brother , who was then at York . |
| 17 | Tripartisme was then at an end , and the problem of maintaining a stable government in the new Republic then became extremely difficult . |
| 18 | Luke waited for the last call and was then at length guided , with much unreturned civility , into the plane 's nose . |
| 19 | It used to be considered that , if a patient was compulsorily detained , treatment was then at the discretion of the psychiatrist in charge of the case because such a person was not always able or willing to give informed consent . |
| 20 | Penrose was then at Birkbeck College , London ; now he is at Oxford . |
| 21 | ‘ Before the reign of James the Fifth , a Highland Laird made a trial of his wife for a certain time , and if she did not please him , he was then at liberty to send her away ’ — which is exactly what took place when a Macdonald married a Macleod . |
| 22 | who had been working as an assistant to an Essex doctor , joined the practice , which was then at its zenith . |
| 23 | Now erm for some reason or other we were responsible for the accredited Poultry Breeding Station Scheme which was erm initiated by the Department of Education or the Ministry of Education as it was then at that stage . |
| 24 | This was well north of any line of march from Wales to the north east , which suggests that Gloucester had business in Lancashire and was not just en route to join his brother , who was then at York . |
| 25 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 26 | And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock . |
| 27 | Cos Annette paid a lot when she was then at Chandler 's Ford |
| 28 | McCabe was then on The Observer and Smith on The Sunday Times . |
| 29 | Julian Barnes ( pictured left ) was then on the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement , and Martin Amis worked for the Times Literary Supplement . |
| 30 | There was pressure upon it , as there was then on teacher training institutions generally , to expand numbers rapidly and to attract numbers by the provision of a wide range of possible options . |