Example sentences of "but then [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then a different kind of terror came in daytime , starting on the second day . |
| 2 | At first , Charles found only 150 clansmen , all of them Macdonalds , waiting to greet him but then the distant skirl of bagpipes was heard and the Camerons , 700 or 800 strong , came down the hillside in orderly columns , escorting the prisoners captured at High Bridge . |
| 3 | But then the managing director of the advertising agency responsible for the advertisement owned up . |
| 4 | All this accounts fairly satisfactorily for the strength and weakness of glasses , with which are included natural glassy minerals such as flint and obsidian , but then the vast majority of hard solids , both natural and artificial , are crystalline . |
| 5 | But then the civil war of the first years of the new century caused what was virtually the collapse of the French army , a collapse confirmed by the defeat at Agincourt at the hands of English men-at-arms and archers . |
| 6 | But then the full force of Luke 's home hit her straight between the eyes . |
| 7 | Coin-collecting seems an unlikely hobby for The Man in Black , but then the bad boy of country music has always confounded expectations . |
| 8 | This argument could be regarded as a rebuttable presumption , but then the inexorable logic of the theory breaks down ; it could not be said that legal rules were always to be determined by the ordinary courts . |