Example sentences of "[noun] was then [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bedale was then a busy Crown office with a full staff , a sorting office and responsibility for many sub-offices in Wensleydale villages stretching to Hawes and the Cumbrian border . |
| 2 | Given that San Sebastian was then a hive of intrigue and rumour ; that there were multiple connections between the parties involved ; and that they had a common interest in retaining political initiative in their own , civilian hands , it seems not impossible that the Falangists and Carlists were aware of the negotiations between Cavaletti and Aguirre . |
| 3 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 4 | Gail was then a nursing supervisor of an Overseas Missionary Fellowship Home for retired missionaries and I was pursuing a high flying career selling shoes . |
| 5 | Sheviock was then a typical Cornish church-town , isolated from the newer and busier settlement of Crafthole , which held a regular fair and was described as ‘ … a poor village but a much frequented thoroughfare ’ . |
| 6 | One of the freeholders whose continuing friendship to Panmure appeared uncertain was Erskine of Dun , one of the lords of session , but a relative of Lord Dun was then the collector of supply for Angus . |
| 7 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |
| 8 | Clive Knox was then a teenager on the family farm right next to the construction site ; some of his father 's land was taken for the development . |
| 9 | Singapore was then a fast-growing city-state of more than two million inhabitants . |
| 10 | The winner 's conker was then a oner , when it had disposed of two it became a twoer , but if it should then beat a threeer it then became a fiver . |
| 11 | Milner-White was then a charming young man of rather Anglo-Catholic opinions who was beginning to make himself an expert both on stained glass and on ways of English worship and prayer . |
| 12 | Leck was then an area of bare moorland with the occasional huddled hill farm , and in the true eighteenth-century manner of fashionable landscapers like Brown , Welch planted trees in clumps and woods to create the most beautiful park . |
| 13 | Dermot was then a respected reporter , with a growing reputation amongst the poor of Dublin . |
| 14 | I had been granted a State Studentship enabling me to undertake postgraduate study for an M.A. ( The London University M.A. was then a research degree . ) |
| 15 | FISA was then a relatively unimportant body which organised European and other championships and participated in the running of Olympic regattas . |
| 16 | Whether he will be as successful again is open to doubt , because his own playing career was then an issue and he had substantial sympathy backing both inside and outside the committee and membership . |
| 17 | Mary was then an attractive dark-haired lady , slightly plump , with swept-back hair falling into ringlets — full in the face , and quite striking in appearance . |
| 18 | Real life was then a male preserve but Helen had no interest in the usual option of the women 's pages . |
| 19 | Bondi was then a professor of mathematics at Kings College , London , and an expert on general relativity . |
| 20 | Yiddish theatre was then the main stronghold of preservation for Jewish immigrants . |
| 21 | Doctor Bailey was then a young man in his twenties , newly qualified and recently married and settled in this his first practice . |
| 22 | Polonium was then an irreplaceable part of the bomb . |
| 23 | This film was then the hit of New York . |
| 24 | Hodgson Holdings was then the biggest quoted funeral director in Britain , handling one in every twenty funerals nationwide , although the Co-op is still the biggest throughout the British Isles , doing about twenty-five per cent of all funerals . |
| 25 | The longer , undulating trilling of the little stint was then the easiest way of telling the two species apart . |
| 26 | Ken Brown was then the culprit with a fair quota of fines , but it was his own fault . |
| 27 | On Saturday evenings , he 'd fold open the newspaper at the fixture list and sing the refrain ‘ £75,000 ’ to the signature tune of Sports Report ( £75,000 was then the top prize dividend paid out by Littlewood 's or Vernon 's football pool ) . |
| 28 | The industrial mass was then a drilled mass and what it also knew was that to survive you had to take no chances : the best thing to say was nothing . |
| 29 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 30 | There were still physicists at the turn of the century who scoffed at ‘ the chemists ’ atoms ’ and because physics was then the senior partner in school science it is not surprising that chemistry teaching began without atoms : but as school chemistry matured the pattern was allowed to set , and teaching atoms early and in a straightforward factual way became taboo . |