Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] then as " in BNC.

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1 Oh it was just sold we were getting as much for the wool then as for .
2 He just said , I stood , get in the car then as
3 Okay , the recommendation then as proposed on as
4 The question then as to whether feminism and Christianity are compatible is that of whether the equality of women is compatible with a religion which has come from a past patriarchal age .
5 I remember abandoning the magazine then as increasing attention was paid to '60s guitar heroes , MOR supergroups and ultra-fast heavy metal people with ever more widdly names .
6 is , there was a big blanket over the door then as you sit here their room was like all the way round to you , and I sat there and the stairs come down , the open stairs come into the room and here is an old brick fire place
7 The camera then as always gave him a major problem .
8 The Baconian suspicions of the speculative and deductive intellect were strong ; the public then as now liked science that was hypothetical and interesting , and loved rows between experts , but scientific opinion was cautious .
9 Standing at the corner of Great Tower Street and Seething Lane , in the very shadow of the Tower of London , All Hallows must have been as impressive a building then as it is today : one of the oldest parish churches in the City , it has always had close links with the Tower itself , and was used as a place of burial for many an unfortunate wretch executed on the nearby scaffold .
10 Nina was silent for a moment then as she glanced up Rachel noticed a smile hovering about her lips .
11 As familiar a sound then as the thud of barrels was the plodding clop of patient draught horses — now , like wooden casks and their makers , almost vanished from Dublin .
12 Styling himself ‘ Dr. Isaac Titford ’ , he had been commissioned surgeon ( not by any means so prestigious a profession then as now ) in the first battalion , Sixtieth Royal American Regiment , and had lived for a while in Virginia ; he was also giving his enterprising spirit full reign out there in the West Indies , fathering the odd quadroon or two , dabbling in the slave trade , a postmaster at Spanish Town , a partner in a firm of druggists in Kingston and the owner of a coffee and pimento plantation .
13 A pause then as the waiter brought the coffee and refilled our cups .
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