Example sentences of "then [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He went first to the then elder statesman of the faculty of divinity , William Telfer the Master of Selwyn , whom Ramsey respected .
2 While the British were doing this , they learnt enough about the political situation in Bengal to realize that in a few months of confused and contradictory policy ( of which his aggressive and then conciliatory treatment of the East India Company was only one example ) Siraj-ud-Daula had lost the confidence of the Hindu merchants and bankers who ran the financial system and of some of the Muslims who ran the Bengal army .
3 The interaction region is then that part of the Schwarzschild space-time inside the initial horizon as indicated , which extends to the horizon as the focusing hypersurface .
4 There was then little belief in the value of the Coalition Liberals , but a strong belief in the value of Lloyd George ; he would be a good advocate with the new electorate and he would in due course be disarmed as Chamberlain had been .
5 This fact , along with the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance ( in effect a restatement of the principles behind the Monroe Doctrine ) , confirmed that , in the context of Moscow 's then rigid categorisation of the world into ‘ capitalist ’ or ‘ Communist ’ , the Latin American nations were firmly entrenched in the capitalist camp .
6 You 've got to sail south , then half way round the reef .
7 If the rational expectations model of consumption is correct then this change in the process through which Y t is determined should affect the behaviour of C t ; that is , consumption should now behave according to :
8 If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life .
9 And there , lots of people and and lots of them actually they came from Abbotsbury and that all their kids were doing so well and then this period of a year , nothing !
10 If the jurisdiction were mandatory and the House of Lords refused or failed to exercise it , then another issue under the Convention would arise , that of access to a tribunal .
11 And then another part of the story is he made a whole alphabet without telling the Times and they .
12 Phillis thought perhaps , in a little time , when he had another doctor , then another dose of the meat .
13 Her question never got answered , for just then another couple with a dog appeared in the distance and Vendelin Gajdusek was calling Azor to heel so that he could leash him .
14 In no time at all , the fire was blazing cheerfully , the curtains were drawn against the night , and Beth was pouring the water from the kettle into the bath ; a spill of cold water from the ewer , then another drop from the kettle , and the water was just the right temperature , the warm steam rising nicely and filling the room with a comfortable warm smell .
15 Uncaring , she felt one and then another tear from the fabric under his impatient fingers .
16 If labour income is disproportionately spent on a good that is labour-intensive , then some part of the tax is shifted via the rise in ( ) ; conversely , if it is spent on the capital-intensive good , the initial impact is magnified .
17 In general , the most readily practicable experiments are ones in which an initial density distribution is set up and there is then some evolution of the configuration during the course of the experiment .
18 If long term follow up shows improved survival in patients treated by radical surgery then early detection of the tumour by screening would be desirable , and the most useful method of detection is rectal examination by a trained urologist .
19 His pathological researches and field studies appeared regularly in the form of official reports presented by Dr J. M. Cuningham , then sanitary commissioner with the government of India , and were concerned with such subjects as cholera , leprosy , ‘ oriental sore ’ , enteric fever , relapsing fever , and prison dietaries .
20 I only had twenty four hours ' notice and then I sat up all night learning a speech and then dried flat at the audition .
21 Rona and he had taken a few round one afternoon , drinking endless cups of tea and listening to platitudes ; a pattern of conversation with all the formality of a dance , first the weather , and then naive politics of the cost of living .
22 If it is the impact of government intervention over a lifetime or series of lifetimes that matters , then existing work on the snapshot distribution , however sophisticated , may have little of relevance to offer .
23 Were more MPs to a drawn into the Whitehall web , then all independence on the government backbenches would be eliminated .
24 It is ideal if concreting can be carried out during one day as there is then less likelihood of a leak appearing .
25 Compared with the continuous damage , though small clearings , of polycyclic systems , monocyclic ones involve clearing large areas at one coup but there is then less disturbance in the time thereafter .
26 There is then little point in scolding the dog , and in fact this may well be counter-productive , because there is then less incentive for the dog to return in a similar situation if you become angry with it .
27 Could it be that there was then more racism in the art world , and that Black artists were being squeezed out at just the time when young working-class artists from the British provinces were finding unprecedented and immediate public fortune ?
28 However , if the scheme is viewed as one that does not tax interest on savings , then more consumption in the future can be financed from a given volume of savings and those seeking a target future consumption can meet it with a lower level of current savings .
29 If the pointer is moving slowly back , then let it go back to the edge of the circle ; then 1 turn towards the movement 2°-5° ( according to rate of change ) until it is steady .
30 Belgium 's allies were unable to offer any real assistance , but at least Winston Churchill , then First Lord of the Admiralty , understood the immense strategic importance of Antwerp .
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