Example sentences of "then a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just then a knock at the door broke into her thoughts . |
| 2 | Michael Howard , then a Minister at the Department of the Environment , reported an opinion poll as having found that one-quarter of people who had not previously voted in local elections intended to vote in future as a result of the community charge ( interview on This Week , Next Week , 21 February 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Greenhill ( 1981 ) , then a lecturer at the college , discussed this history of police/sociology antagonism in detail , arguing a tendency in each side to discredit the other ; resulting in a situation where ‘ the number of published British texts and research studies on the sociology of the police may be numbered on the fingers of both hands ’ . |
| 4 | Then a man at the back of the hall began to clap , and someone else joined in . |
| 5 | Alright , erm , well I remember how do I get a sub-title and then a total at the bottom ? |
| 6 | On the day itself , Norman Mailer , then a juror at the Cannes film festival , was asked what he thought of the movies on offer . |
| 7 | The key for farmers to do business is for them to deliver assured quality ; there is then a premium at the end of the line and no need to form Continental style co-ops , the minister adds . |
| 8 | In the version drawn in 1921 by Sir Arnold Plant ( then a student at the School ) , the beaver was selected to symbolize the School because ‘ it was understood to be an industrious animal with social habits ’ . |