Example sentences of "[pron] was then [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was then a disciple of Herbert Read 's and his " education of the senses " , but it was Basil , ill the no-nonsense power of his belief , who did much to give me a life-long conviction about the place of art education . |
| 2 | I was then a year old and she was with us till I was nearly four . |
| 3 | St Chad 's College in Durham , which was then a theological college , tried to get him as its Principal . |
| 4 | The Hungerfords of Farleigh Hungerford , the all-powerful local family in medieval times , bought Iford , which was then a mill , in 1369 and held on to it for four centuries . |
| 5 | In July 1663 , Richard Baxter left London for reasons of health and went to live in Acton , which was then a village six miles west of the capital . |
| 6 | His parents were from Dukinfield , which was then a hamlet in the parish of St. Mary , Stockport , where they were buried . |
| 7 | I think that I accused the hon. Gentleman of being a member of the Tribune group , which was then a significant force in the Labour party . |
| 8 | The Building News said in 1860 that the new chapel , which was then the largest building in England for public worship , had solved Wren 's query as to how 5,000 people in one building could all both see and hear a service . |
| 9 | Although the SDA was strictly a national agency , it was also given the responsibility of managing the Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal Project ( GEAR ) , which was then the largest inner-city project in Britain . |
| 10 | He never made the seventy-mile journey from Aix to Geneva , which was then the centre of the international world . |
| 11 | The explanation is apparently that the proceedings were launched with little notice and J. 's mother and those advising her wished to have an opportunity of acquiring further expert evidence which would , they hoped , support her view and that which was then the view of the local authority , namely , that artificial ventilation should be used if necessary . |
| 12 | All the women were , and that 's true of of the hosiery industry , of course you 've got a a there 's a big distinction between the hosiery industry as such and the hosiery finishing industry which was then the , they 're amalgamated now , but there were two entirely distinct unions , in tho Er as a matter of fact they n n they never met together . |
| 13 | Only d'Ohsson attempts to show it as continuous , saying that after the death of Tursun Fakih , " Murad I gave his place [ as Mufti of the capital ] to Fahreddin Acemi , the kadi of Bursa , which was then the usual residence of the sultans . |
| 14 | The first courses to be organized were two one-day courses for school librarians , the first being a " hands-on " session to introduce everyone to the RML 380Z microcomputer , which was then the recommended machine . |
| 15 | Four years after her husband died she returned from the United States to marry her foster father , Mr Taylor , who was then a widower : |
| 16 | Of all this only 40s. was recorded , at Marlow , in 1522 , in the name of Thomas , who was then a ward himself . |
| 17 | Even so they caused Baldwin no particular concern , despite a half-warning from Anthony Eden , who was then a second Cabinet minister in the Foreign Office . |
| 18 | The crucial suggestion was made in 1972 by Jacob D. Bekenstein , who was then a graduate student at Princeton University and is now at the University of the Negev in Israel . |
| 19 | He met up again with Shankar , who was then a visiting professor at the City College in New York , and studied for a while with Alla Rakha . |
| 20 | A partner in her firm of solicitors knew Lord Aldington , who was then the chairman of Sun Alliance Insurance , which handled the case ; and asked him to look at it . |
| 21 | President Shehu Shagari , who was then the NPN presidential candidate , did not win a majority of the popular vote . |
| 22 | At Leicester a hostile crowd several thousands strong prevented A.K. Chesterton who was then the Midlands organizer , from attending a meeting . |
| 23 | But the time came when Graham Thomas , who was then the Trust 's Gardens Adviser , suddenly had to produce a report and I began to see that it was n't quite like the old days . |
| 24 | ‘ Gerry Francis , who was then the England captain , was forever trying to get out of taking part in the silly games but the boss would have none of it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ When Adam delved and Eve span , ’ he chanted , ‘ who was then the gentleman ? ’ |
| 26 | One was Thereza Imanishi-Kari , who was then an immunologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) . |
| 27 | In return for this concession the English government obtained a number of crucial episcopal appointments , not least the translation of Sudbury to Canterbury ; moreover , the good offices of the pope were assured in the current peace negotiations ; finally , some of the money would find its way back to the English crown for the ransom of the pope 's brother , Roger Beaufort , who was then an English prisoner of war . |
| 28 | But is this because there was then no machinery for collecting and distributing the money or because there was no authority-imposed duty to pay it ? |
| 29 | We can agree with him therefore that the Pioneers were wrong in their view that the abolition of workers ' rights , expressed as a bonus to labour , was a misdirection of the Movement — but wrong only because there was then no other direction for it to take . |
| 30 | There was then no one in Oxford working in cosmology , but at Cambridge there was Fred Hoyle , the most distinguished British astronomer of the time . |