Example sentences of "then [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I only had twenty four hours ' notice and then I sat up all night learning a speech and then dried flat at the audition . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ortiz , a respected connoisseur and collector of art from ancient civilisations was approached in 1986 by Mikhail Treister , then acting secretary of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts , with an invitation to exhibit his collection in Moscow . |
| 9 | After taking a cold , rawness of the larynx and trachea come on , then spasmodic constriction of the larynx at night . |
| 10 | If you use unleaded in an engine not designed for it then premature failure of the exhaust valve seats will result . |
| 11 | The cohorts now past retirement age , it must be remembered , had the experience of childhood during the inter-war depression years and then young adulthood in the war , when they were encouraged rather than discouraged from smoking . |
| 12 | In 1980 , when Norman was UK Managing Director of Russell Reynolds , he was approached by Sir Peter Carey , then permanent Secretary to the Department of Trade , to find a new chief executive for British Steel . |
| 13 | It was a considerable tribute to his growing reputation in high official circles , and the fact that he was proposed for it by Sir John Anderson ( later Viscount Waverley , q.v. ) , then permanent under-secretary at the Home Office , indicates that he already enjoyed the trust of the home departments he would henceforth be serving . |
| 14 | Among the six members of the sub-committee responsible for drafting this submission was the Eastern District 's former full-time tutor Harold Shearman , by then Academic Adviser to the Department of Extra-Mural Studies at London and a WEA vice-president . |
| 15 | From 1946 to 1952 he was first lecturer and then senior lecturer in the department of philosophy and psychology at the University of Canterbury , Christchurch , New Zealand , and was professor of philosophy there from 1952 to 1958 . |
| 16 | The strike was broken only by widespread flogging and imprisonment , but it was clear that if the Danzig Poles — by tradition the meekest of them all — were willing to protest , then Polish resistance as a whole must have stiffened considerably . |