Example sentences of "was then " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was originally held in Safi Prison , where he developed diabetes in 1988 , but was then transferred to Marrakech where his family lives , and so could visit him regularly and provide him with the food necessary for his diabetic diet . |
| 2 | Some good thing had been voiced , and Wilde had remarked that he wished that he had said it — and was then told : . |
| 3 | As did the author of the book , who is a painter and who was then at the Slade , she discovered , he tells us , that ‘ the people with the beautiful faces were also , mysteriously , the ones it was most fun to be with ’ . |
| 4 | It was then that I became fully aware of how your personality is really at stake . |
| 5 | It was then . |
| 6 | It was then more than a misjudgement : it revealed the extent to which the religious intellectuals ' theory of church and state was outdated and incoherent . |
| 7 | Another two moved on shortly afterwards and it was then that the intimidation began . |
| 8 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 9 | If you have already thought up a sensible solution to my problems , that puts you one up on me as I was then , because I was completely flummoxed by the whole thing . |
| 10 | I was then asked : ‘ what 's the difference between a law course at polytechnic and at the university ? ’ |
| 11 | This ‘ high-flyer ’ was then in his early thirties . |
| 12 | Born in 1844 to a family noted for its piety and scholarship , Lazarus had decided to emigrate to Canada in 1869 , having heard reports of the young country 's potential : its federation was then but two years old . |
| 13 | He has no memory of any such difficulties , only of how stable society was then . |
| 14 | He does , however , remember the yardstick or strap which was then used to facilitate good conduct and discipline by the teachers . ) |
| 15 | The lesson itself was then read by the rabbi or cantor ; Leonard taking up the concluding part — the maftir . |
| 16 | The scrap was then clamped in the vice , and the routing was easy . |
| 17 | It was then the best part of a week 's work on Malcolm 's part to get that saw running sweetly . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Despite what was then described as the worst financial recession for fifty years , the Mallaig train sold out in just nine days , there being no shortage of takers for seats which by now were creeping up towards the £40 mark , and beyond the pockets of the traditional excursion-train traveller . |
| 20 | Withdrawal of the prototype Class 44 series of ten was completed in 1981 , and a start was then made on the production Class 45 and 46 fleets . |
| 21 | It was then that choreographers turned their attention to music already available , very often because financial difficulties prevented any approach being made to a living composer . |
| 22 | Nevertheless the extraordinary use MacMillan made of the traditions of the japanese theatre with its warlike ritual drills for selfdefence showed how much more masculine his choreographic design was then becoming . |
| 23 | It was then taken over by such excellent troupes as the Tiller and Jackson Girls who toured widely over Europe and America and later by the Drum Majorettes , who have also appeared in Balanchine 's works . |
| 24 | It was then expanded by Fokine and used in both grave and gay moods in Les Sylphides and Le Carnaval , where it is particularly expressive of both meaning and music . |
| 25 | The pub was then sold as a going concern and refurbished . |
| 26 | It was then we lost our guide , who was called to help a Bulgarian who 'd had an accident . |
| 27 | The tape was then passed through an automatic transmitter , turning individual perforations into dot/dash signals for the line and considerably improving speed of the telegraph . |
| 28 | Transformer coupling was then unchallenged and the journal 's championing of the RC technique caused rioting among the transformer makers ( and there were many ) , with threats of withdrawal of advertising and worse . |
| 29 | FISA was then a relatively unimportant body which organised European and other championships and participated in the running of Olympic regattas . |
| 30 | But they also said the Jews would have a homeland in Palestine and agreed that when the war ended the French would control Syria and what was then called Mount Lebanon . |