Example sentences of "then [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was encouraged to assume this double burden by Arthur Ponsonby , the younger brother of Fritz , who after nine years in the Diplomatic Service had resigned to sit in the Commons as a Liberal ; finding his colleagues inadequately radical , Ponsonby had then joined the Labour Party and in January 1924 was installed at the Prime Minister 's elbow as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs . |
| 2 | I had not then heard the famous phrase . |
| 3 | Having answered this part of the questionnaire , the informants were then given the next paragraph of the story : The informants were then asked whether this explained the mismatch of the previous paragraph . |
| 4 | They in turn had then received the green light from their respective governments . |
| 5 | He acquitted two men and then placed the black cap on his head and sentenced the other two to death . |
| 6 | In western Siberia , while Turkic tribes from the steppes moved into the southern fringe of the forest and pressed upon the Samoeds , the Ugrian ( Khanty and Mansi ) peoples moving eastward from the Ural mountains into the Ob-Irtysh basin also mixed with the Samoeds , who by then occupied the northern forest and tundra from the White Sea in the west almost to the Lena in the east . |
| 7 | This meant that the gliders were then parked the wrong way and , being light , they often blew over . |
| 8 | Mr. Watson had then telephoned the same consultant in the same hospital and had asked how long he would have to wait to be seen privately . |
| 9 | Two nuclear power stations in Scotland broke their own record for 24 hours of electricity production last month — then matched the new total the following day . |
| 10 | It was then shown the correct diagnosis in each case , broken into five categories , ranging from flatulence to angina . |
| 11 | For certain cases two or three judges of the Queen 's Bench sit together and are then called the Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division . |
| 12 | Almost every speaker concentrated on the European issue , because we were then in the middle of crucial negotiations about Britain 's future in Europe and our membership of what was then called the common market . |
| 13 | They had assumed without question that Eliot , the royalist and high churchman , would have sided automatically with the establishment or what was then called the ruling class . |
| 14 | We have then reached the absurd position that nothing in the world possesses a knowable intrinsic or qualitative nature , for all properties are essentially relational . |
| 15 | He could have helped to clarity issues , could have done some investigations of his own , and would have then alerted the relevant department to any problems . |
| 16 | The notebooks also show that she had grasped that the A form contained two strands running in opposite directions , but she had not then understood the exact relation between the A and B forms . |
| 17 | In one area American Teetotalism then affected the English movement which in turn set an example for Nonconformity as a whole . |
| 18 | They had then walked the short distance to Park Lane , her hand in the crook of James 's arm . |
| 19 | But it was a misreading to suppose that the vote then marked the high water mark on the issue . |
| 20 | He bathed again and the stoma care nurse then marked the proposed site for the stoma on his skin . |
| 21 | Maxim shut the door behind them then fixed the loosened bolt saddle firmly with Superglue . |
| 22 | S. S. Gershtein and his student E. A. Vesman then identified the missing ingredient in the existing theories . |
| 23 | And this then created the first institute fire insurance and your rebuilding acts . |