Example sentences of "then [adj] [noun sg] of [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 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 .
5 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 .
6 After taking a cold , rawness of the larynx and trachea come on , then spasmodic constriction of the larynx at night .
7 If you use unleaded in an engine not designed for it then premature failure of the exhaust valve seats will result .
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