Example sentences of "then [conj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traces of all three elements have been found in isolated cases before then so it is perhaps exaggerating to say that an entirely new tradition was invented . |
| 2 | Wisps of distant music , the creak of machinery , enigmatic shiftings of light , a spasm of slow-motion : first you realise that this house ( in Dermot Hayes 's cunningly flimsy set , a little Calvary of stunted , corroding masts ) is haunted , then that it is doomed ; and then , the real turn of the screw , that these people may really want to be doomed . |
| 3 | In the autumn , the sweeping tracts of it on the lower , treeless hillsides are the colour of rust , and it is then that it is scythed down , to provide bedding for the animals during the winter and , once suitably impregnated , fertilizer for the fields the following spring — in a neat ecological cycle . |
| 4 | Twenty years ago I would have been back that same night , but I 've learned since then that it is rare indeed to enjoy a repeat performance . |
| 5 | The Europe-centredness of civilization was easier to distinguish then than it is today , but Europe 's relations with the rest of the world were already complicated . |
| 6 | ( Calculations show that a million years ago it shone as much the brightest star in the sky , and equalled Venus ; it was closer to us then than it is now . ) |
| 7 | I have a quick phone call I think it was June or July just stating what they wanted to do and i in my opinion it was passed then and it is political . |
| 8 | ‘ Then if it is all right … . ’ |
| 9 | However , in the current economic climate it is only major corporates that will find demand for their SCP , and only then if it is rated by at least one of the rating agencies such as Moody 's or Standard and Poors . |
| 10 | And in your Ks whenever you come across a word that starts with a K make sure you put it in your book and have a look at those occasionally so that you 're pretty sure you know all these K words and then if it is n't you say well okay got to be a C. |
| 11 | You need to use THEN if it is followed by : or you wish to exit from a function as a result of the test . |
| 12 | I 'll practise on the jaw-line — then if it is n't good enough , he can always grow a beard to hide it . ’ |
| 13 | Leeds had given up by then but it is not hard to present a case from which they , rather than City , might have ended up celebrating . |
| 14 | Then when it is touched it immediately snaps the shells together like a steel trap . |
| 15 | Consequently it was as hard then as it is now to separate our various individual contributions . |
| 16 | Standing at the corner of Great Tower Street and Seething Lane , in the very shadow of the Tower of London , All Hallows must have been as impressive a building then as it is today : one of the oldest parish churches in the City , it has always had close links with the Tower itself , and was used as a place of burial for many an unfortunate wretch executed on the nearby scaffold . |
| 17 | Coming out was the key issue then as it is now . |
| 18 | Though the Dragon Princes were few the destruction they could wreak was unmatched then as it is now and few dared the wrath of Caledor . |
| 19 | Then , as now , the norm was that young married couples should live in a residence separate from those of their families of origin , and the three-generational household was as rare then as it is now . |
| 20 | It was considered as wrong then as it is now to embezzle the Crown 's revenues . |
| 21 | And then er then I mean er , was n't so big then as it is now . |
| 22 | Now this was not as magnificent then as it is today . |
| 23 | No shaved from there back and then as it is at the moment in the front . |