Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] then [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His parents were from Dukinfield , which was then a hamlet in the parish of St. Mary , Stockport , where they were buried . |
| 4 | He never made the seventy-mile journey from Aix to Geneva , which was then the centre of the international world . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | series would be renumbered , into what was then a gap in the L C.C. series on 3 October 1934 . |
| 7 | When the Palace were drawn to face Rangers again in the 3rd round of the FA Cup in January 1946 , in which no ‘ guests ’ were eligible to play , the club hurried the petitioned move through , at what was then a club record fee of £5,000 . |
| 8 | What was then a rumour — that the same units were moved from one place to another for his inspections — proved to be the truth . |
| 9 | 1992 is the 21st anniversary of the start of what was then an idea . |
| 10 | It was Eric who first invented the Flame-thrower , and it was lying in what was then the bicycle-shed ( now my shed ) when our cousin , who had come to spend the weekend with us along with his parents , decided it would be fun to ride Eric 's bike into the soft mud at the south end of the island . |
| 11 | John joined what was then the Ministry of Labour and National Service in 1956 . |
| 12 | My father was one of them , and when ‘ Buddy Can You Spare a Dime ? ’ topped what was then the hit parade , its lyrics summed up the poverty , dependence and despair of the millions of poor throughout the world . |
| 13 | Missionary interest had been greatly stirred by the work in training ordinands in what was then the Gold Coast , by Dom Bernard Clements OSB . |
| 14 | The physical appearance of Chesterfield 's market place was altered by the erection of a huge market hall in 1857 , but even today the shape of the area is that determined upon back in the twelfth century when a decision was taken to found a new market at what was then the edge of the town . |
| 15 | At the same school I also recognised the importance of freedom of choice , when I approached what was then the equivalent of O-levels . |
| 16 | A survey has been made of the twenty-six judges who were active Law Lords during the period 1952–68 together with two Lord Chief Justices , two Masters of the Rolls and one president of what was then the Probate , Divorce and Admiralty Division . |
| 17 | Sir Kenneth Kleinwort , director of the Kleinwort Benson Group , remembers as a child in the 1940s being taken to what was then the family bank . |
| 18 | On Scotland 's Grand Slam night in 1984 , for instance , some England supporters tried to steal a soup tureen from what was then the Claret Jug in Great King Street . |
| 19 | He started as a Tuner in what was then the Gripper Jacquard section , becoming supervisor in 1966 . |