Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] then [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court adjourned the matter until Thursday , ‘ but it is hoped by both parties that by then the current uncertainty and speculation concerning the future of Manchester will have been resolved ’ . |
| 2 | VAT was introduced in April 1973 and from then the standard rate has varied from ten per cent to eight per cent to fifteen per cent , and the Treasury is empowered to change the rate at any time . |
| 3 | Over 20 years ago , Japanese scientists were reporting that over 10,000 porpoises were being killed in the North Pacific each year in the drift-nets of the Japanese salmon fishery , and since then the drift-net fleet has grown considerably . |
| 4 | ‘ And since then the two of you have got together in Australia once , and now again in Taiwan , of course . ’ |
| 5 | He was among the first to offer his warmest congratulations to the victorious Mr Clinton and since then the two leaders have spoken a number of times by telephone . |
| 6 | From 1976 to 1980 they were allowed to use 20 per cent of their contributions in this way , from 1981 to 1985 they were allowed to use 50 per cent , and since then the permitted ratio has been 60 per cent . |
| 7 | The festival at Cropredy started as a reunion concert when the band split up … they reformed six years ago and by then the annual event was well established … each year present and past members line up … |
| 8 | This was in 1785 and by then the major mines were so deep that a ladder climb to the surface could take an hour . |
| 9 | It was n't until 25 minutes later that he remembered — and by then the former Miss England had drowned in two feet of muddy water . |
| 10 | There is a bottomless pit of money there and by then the same might apply in Japan or America . |
| 11 | It was an hour later that they came back and by then the Jewish family had let me know exactly what was happening in Germany , and my game had become rather more serious . |
| 12 | His flight had left New York three hours after the Paris flight and by then the worst of the turbulence over the Atlantic had dissipated so he had been able to sleep for most of the journey . |
| 13 | The trouble is that no-one appears to know what will happen after the Olympics and whether if by then the United Nations ' blacklist will preclude British members of the Tour from competing in certain countries . |
| 14 | But since then a major row has broken out over Russian supplies to Ukraine . |
| 15 | Here there is not such a clear break-point in the trend , though it is perhaps important to note that until the mid-1960s there were fairly regular fluctuations up and down , but since then no downward fluctuation has ever dipped significantly below the peak of preceding cycles . |
| 16 | In the Sixties , car ownership did rocket , but since then the social graph has levelled off . |
| 17 | But by then the Soviet Union no longer had any faith in the sincerity of a government which it believed had encouraged Fascism for many years . |
| 18 | But by then the political tide had shifted firmly against it . |
| 19 | But by then the military phase of the Emergency was nearly over , and apart from the odd border patrol , the Masai were given no further opportunity to distinguish themselves in battle . |
| 20 | as Younger did in January 1922 , that a coalition could best carry through the policies that Unionists wanted , but by then the main Unionist demands were directed against Labour anyway . |
| 21 | — and finished the scene , but by then the outraged governess had flounced out of the room . |
| 22 | But by then the three American managers hope to have turned the company , and their 15% stake , into something worth owning . |
| 23 | The word was out , for until then the British had kept secret their special raiding forces . |
| 24 | Irritating as Miss Kenton 's behaviour was , I could not afford to give it much thought , for by then the first of the guests had arrived . |
| 25 | A large portico supported by six Doric pillars provided a suitably impressive entrance to the chapel , for by then the leading Wesleyans in the town had become rich and respectable . |