Example sentences of "[coord] then [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place . |
| 2 | A former priest , he hit the headlines as secretary and then chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . |
| 3 | Retiring in 1959 after a year 's extension , Macpherson continued to be active in public life , as chairman of Cable and Wireless Ltd. ( 1962–7 ) , deputy and then chairman of the Basildon Development Corporation ( 1960–7 ) , vice-president of the Royal Commonwealth and the Royal African Societies , and , from 1962 , vice-chairman of the advisory committee on distinction awards for consultants . |
| 4 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
| 5 | He also knew that his wife , after being secretary to a bishop and then secretary to the professor of divinity , and his hostess for eight years , was better equipped to be the wife of the new Bishop of Durham than any other woman in the country . |
| 6 | Let's get the message over , let's go without one congress and I know that 's near to John 's heart and request the other unions , A E U , U C A T , T N G , request the T N , T U C to do the same and then plaster over every bus in Britain , the G M B's policy . |
| 7 | In a rather different way , the estimation of the annual output of the Roman mint between about 150 and 50BC has enabled a picture to be constructed of the growth and then contraction of the liquidity of silver coinage during that period ( fig. 24 ) . |
| 8 | Suddenly , the crew noticed three humps breaking the surface of the water , and then part of a head draped with a growth that looked like seaweed . |
| 9 | The latter was created by William Casey , who became Ronald Reagan 's campaign director and then head of the CIA . |
| 10 | Fluorite dominates the inner zone with calcite and then baryte towards the margins of the mineralised area . |
| 11 | Under Labour , the best example is Denis Healey who was Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and then Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 . |
| 12 | The priorities are extension of the Jubilee line , then crossrail and then development of the Chelsea to Hackney line . |
| 13 | Mr Blackburn , a Belfast man , was clerk for the Northern Ireland Parliament from 1970 to March , 1972 , and then clerk of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973–74 . |
| 14 | He became a civil servant in Jordan and then part-owner in a Beirut hotel . |
| 15 | In 1794 he was acting captain of the Adamant ( 50 guns ) and then captain of the Isis , also of 50 guns . |
| 16 | His musical talents had not been confined to the School , for he had been first a choirboy at St. Matthew 's in Edgeley , and then organist for the Sunday afternoon services at Barnes ' Convalescent Home in Cheadle , followed by eight years as organist at St. John 's , Heaton Mersey , then 20 years at St. Peter 's , Stockport , and finally 34 years at the Parish Church , St. Mary 's , from which he finally retired in 1944 . |
| 17 | I want you to introduce the plan and then hand over the presentation to Klepner . |
| 18 | The research — and terrorism — progressed when he was lecturing in politics at University College , Cardiff , and then reader at the University of Wales . |
| 19 | Norma said that she was going to spend the best part of the day as the guest of the Mayoress of Brighton — lunch in the Royal Pavilion — and then tea at the Marina . |
| 20 | The able-bodied had to saw up old railway sleepers and then chop up the pieces for sale as firewood . |
| 21 | It 's been glo glorious one day , and then , and then sort of a bit |
| 22 | and then sort of the bits will go round like that and then |
| 23 | Macmillan astutely side-stepped the opposition by appointing General ‘ Pug ’ Ismay , Churchill 's wartime Chief Staff Officer , and General Ian Jacob , who had been one of his deputies and then Director-General of the BBC , to use their acknowledged experience of the workings of Whitehall to produce a blueprint of the most practicable way of bringing the three Service ministries together into a single Ministry of Defence . |