Example sentences of "[conj] then as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1760 he was employed , first as carpenter and then as clerk of works , at the building of Kedleston Hall , Derbyshire , under Robert Adam [ q.v. ] , an experience which constituted his architectural education . |
| 2 | They appeared in law school classrooms and law review articles , then as lawyers ' arguments in particular cases at law , then as judicial arguments in dissenting opinions explaining why the majority opinion , reflecting the orthodoxy of the time , was unsatisfactory , then as the opinions of the majority in a growing number of cases , and then as propositions no longer mentioned because they went without saying . |
| 3 | She served as its honorary secretary and then as chairman . |
| 4 | If we wish to reflect on the nature of the body we must in succession examine the body first as being-for-itself and then as being-for-others . |
| 5 | In the novel itself we meet the Russian people , the folk , only once , and then as inflictors of suffering , in Raskolnikov 's half-dream ( which is also half-memory ) of a little mare being tortured and finally clubbed to death by drunken peasants . |
| 6 | He paused , and then as Robbie made no comment , ‘ So , ’ impatiently , ‘ will you write to your mother ? |
| 7 | First as a diplomat , later as Foreign Minister in 1959-66 and then as Chancellor he shaped the foreign policy priorities of post-war Austria . |
| 8 | Very broadly , what happens is that the budgeted amounts of expenditure are credited to appropriation accounts and then as expenditure is incurred debits are set against these credits . |
| 9 | Its main thrust was that challenges to the order and stability of bourgeois hegemony in the social sphere are then registered as challenges to order and stability , first as content and then as form , in the aesthetic sphere . |
| 10 | Walling , first as Secretary and then as President , of the Commission on Continental Erosion of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences . |
| 11 | After the Civil War ended in 1939 Ibárruri lived in the Soviet Union and was leader of the PCE in exile , first as secretary-general in 1942 and then as president from 1960 . |
| 12 | It grew in two ways : initially , as more people got TV sets , and then as programme hours increased . |
| 13 | He later served as deputy governor and then as governor of the Bank of Finland but was obliged to resign in 1983 [ see p. 32218 ] . |
| 14 | He served firstly as a curate in Essex and then as rector of the combined parishes of St Antholin and Saint John Baptist in London . |
| 15 | Deprived of royal favour , and hounded from Radnorshire politics by his great rivals the Harleys , he sought out a new patron , Thomas Grey , second Earl of Stamford [ q.v. ] , a new parliamentary seat ( first for Breconshire and then as Stamford 's nominee for Bere Alston ) , and a new reputation as an energetic House of Commons man . |
| 16 | England began slowly , and then as Gatting and Gooch were accelerating they both fell in quick succession . |
| 17 | Dismissed from the Albertina because of his German nationality , he then worked for the Graphische Sammlung , Munich , until 1971 as a curator and then as director . |
| 18 | The great inland coal reserves of England awaited full exploit-ation , first as fuel and then as energy . |
| 19 | Its inhabitants have lived off the dead for millennia , first as tomb robbers and then as tomb guardians . |
| 20 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
| 21 | They know what it 's like to stand on both sides of the competitive fence and have now been involved with the sport for well over a decade , first as top international competitions and then as manager and coach of the national team . |
| 22 | But then as time went by — ’ |
| 23 | She wished she had written more often to her aunt , and better letters ; but then as Jenny had said , she was not very good at writing letters . |
| 24 | I know absolutely nothing about P Way but then as Norman was speaking , I realized that perhaps I could put a few ticks in . |