Example sentences of "what was then [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Bristol merchant , of Quaker origin , called William Springett bought Alderly in the early 1740s and determined to turn what was then a small and jumbled Tudor manor into an up-to-date gentleman 's seat . |
| 2 | The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior shadowed the march from the sea , unloading a wind turbine to join a display of alternative energy equipment set up amid a cluster of marquees and caravans on what was then a rolling green field . |
| 3 | Most informal of all were the periods spent at the Villa Eugénie at Biarritz , the house built by the Emperor for his wife at what was then a small fishing port which she had known long before her marriage . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Cromwell 's soldiers were close behind , and Charles , on the advice of loyal friends , sought refuge here in what was then a remote hunting lodge , already known as a safe house for Royalist fugitives . |
| 6 | series would be renumbered , into what was then a gap in the L C.C. series on 3 October 1934 . |
| 7 | In 1980 the National Heritage Memorial Fund ( NHMF ) was put on an independent footing , with what was then a large sum to spend on Britain 's art and heritage . |
| 8 | During the 1960s I was a mechanical engineering consultant in what was then a very embryonic consultancy in Cambridge . |
| 9 | When , as a very young bride , Freda Berkeley first visited the house in what was then a quiet corner of Little Venice , ‘ I fell in love with it . |
| 10 | What was then a rumour — that the same units were moved from one place to another for his inspections — proved to be the truth . |
| 11 | I was ambling down a calm King 's Road to my bus stop outside Peter Jones , almost opposite the flat where Percy Grainger lived , and bought a packet of five Players cigarettes from what was then a seedy little newsagent and tobacconist . |
| 12 | Detectives decided to use what was then a fairly new technique to help give body an identity . |
| 13 | It is understood that Lawrie and Symington , Lanark , the first company to sign a franchise with ANM three years ago for what was then a revolutionary way to sell livestock , will stay with EASE . |
| 14 | 1992 is the 21st anniversary of the start of what was then an idea . |
| 15 | But it was built in 1751 as an inland lighthouse to guide travellers across what was then an empty open and desolate countryside . |
| 16 | With the increase in the price of oil due to the Gulf crisis , however , what was then an uneconomical proposition now looks rather healthier . |
| 17 | We both went to state primary schools ; we both passed the 11-plus ; we both had local government scholarships — the hon. Gentleman went to a direct grant school while I went to what was then an independent school . |
| 18 | The new students , however , were born when Heath was Prime Minister and negotiating entry into what was then the Common Market . |
| 19 | The Social Democrat party , banned by the Nazis in 1933 , returned to life for only one year after the war in what was then the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As a result , Haslam inherited what was then the plastic-film group , which was at an embryonic stage of development . |
| 22 | By an Act of 1934 an adopted child acquires the same rights as a natural child to benefits under what was then the Workmen 's Compensation Act 1925 ( this Act is now replaced by the Social Security Act 1975 ) . |
| 23 | Still in a spending mood it extensively refurbished the bar , extending it into what was then the major part of the lounge , which had itself been refurbished in 1974 . |
| 24 | The first incident was originally reported in Britain in 1988 by Keith Pilling , occupational physician for what was then the UK Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 25 | Although made almost entirely of wood and having to land at what was then the extremely high speed of 100mph , I can only remember one incident of a Mosquito crashing and burning on the airfield . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Missionary interest had been greatly stirred by the work in training ordinands in what was then the Gold Coast , by Dom Bernard Clements OSB . |
| 28 | Similarly , the London-based Free Belgian administration broadcast from Léopoldville in what was then the Belgian Congo to German-occupied Belgium as the voice of its country 's legitimate government . |
| 29 | The other ‘ new boys ’ are of a much latter epoch and include the Pitts S-1S that the late Neil Williams flew during the World Aerobatic Championships outside Moscow in what was then the USSR . |
| 30 | It has been an evocative experience reading these articles , rolling back the years to what was then the greatest adventure of my young life , and these experiences are just as vivid today . |