Example sentences of "then of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let go then of every dignity but the dignity of defiance , and fought like a wild-cat , lashing and struggling and biting , wearing himself out uselessly in an effort that could gain him nothing . |
| 2 | Occasionally people from more than one lineage on each side had made peace , and people spoke then of a peace between some higher order entity than a small lineage : Ujdaid and Talib , Awlad Amira and Mannaia . |
| 3 | That is here , at this cinema and er usually consists of a film show and erm er presentation and then of a buffet lunch . |
| 4 | By the time this chore was finished , I was so tired I fell into a doze on the veranda , dreaming of a Gauguin nude of Aleena 's grandmother , and then of a painting of Tiare and her daughter , and then how easy it would be if they could all come and live with me and we could just hang the pictures on the walls and enjoy them . |
| 5 | Then of a waiter , speaking in a whisper , asking if sir wanted night ; and of night coming in the Form of a blueberry syrup , poured from high above the plate , and falling in viscous folds upon the streets and towers . |
| 6 | Then of a sinner thou art rid |
| 7 | Once she heard the sound of the Holy Ghost , which was like a pair of bellows in her ear , though it later turned into the sound of a dove , then of a robin that sang only in her right ear . |
| 8 | But many archbishops were delighted by the excuse to go on pilgrimage to Rome ; and one of the first to benefit from the custom was Sigeric , archbishop of Canterbury ( 990 — 4 ) , who has left us a kind of diary of his visit — first of the churches in Rome which a pilgrim had especially to visit and to pray in , and then of the stages on his long journey back to Canterbury . |
| 9 | Having weighed up all these factors , you are ready to make a preliminary capital budget of the costs of fencing , drainage , water supply , access , fertility , buildings , and farmhouse ; then of the purchase of livestock , machinery , and equipment . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought then of the wife , the difficult woman with the nerves , St-Jean was talking about , whose caprices and demands had made his life so impossible . |
| 11 | ‘ If you had warned me then of the horrors in store , I should have thrown myself under the stage rather than have travelled inside it . ’ |
| 12 | In late 1990 the failure first of the rains and then of the grain harvest across the Sahel in Africa [ see pp. 37845 ; 37907-08 ; 37945-46 ; 38090 ] prompted renewed questions as to whether this drought was linked to global warming . |
| 13 | He therefore set out to produce a corrected text first of the letters of Paul his hero , then of the gospel of Paul 's companion Luke ( the other gospels being scrapped ) , which he thought the work of Paul himself in its original form . |
| 14 | But since her captivity , a babel seethed around her constantly , the cries and demands of Sycorax , the commands of the men on guard over her , the hammering and planing of the pales for the stockade and for the settlers ' other plans ; the shouts of the men from the boat-building on the beach , the barking of orders to bondsmen brought from England on the ship that had returned , the yells of slaves whom they had loaded in Dahomey or Yoruba on the journey back , and roped and chained and put to work under the whip , and the bellowing laughter now and then of the overseer , a tall African who had been taken out of chains himself to hold the lash over his fellows . |
| 15 | Roads they were then of the Sidhe and of those who have dealings with the impalpable and the evanescent . |
| 16 | Indeed , the clarity of Hamelin 's articulation , often at the most break-neck speeds , reminds me now and then of the playing of John Ogdon , and there can be no higher praise than that . |
| 17 | What then of the Government 's claim that it is spending more money in income support than it would have done had the previous supplementary benefit system remained in place ? |
| 18 | And so , from the sick wards in the old House of Industry and then of the Bedford Union , through the workhouse infirmary , St. Peter 's Hospital , providing a comprehensive range of services for the sick and injured poor of the district , had emerged from the chrysalis as the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 19 | So dismal was it that I thought first of Byron 's prophetic poem of the death of light , and then of the lands that lie north of the line of the Arctic Circle . |
| 20 | Thus in a passage quoted by James , Wundt writes : ‘ If we touch first the back of one hand and then of the other , we remark a qualitative unlikeness of sensation . |
| 21 | Calculations made by Don N. Page , then of the California Institute of Technology , and me , based on measurements of the cosmic background of gamma radiation made by the satellite SAS-2 , show that the average density of primordial black holes in the universe must be less than about two hundred per cubic light-year . |
| 22 | In 1964 at Ma'aden Ijafen , in southern Mauretania , Theodore Monod , then of the Institut Francais d'Afrique Novre , found 2085 brass bars abandoned by a camel caravan around the 12th or 13th century . |
| 23 | It soon became the language of Parliament , then of the Cabinet and of most areas of the civil service ; the law courts also began to use it . |
| 24 | Captain of the 1975–76 team that won an FA Cup semi-final place for the first time in the club 's history , and then of the side which gained promotion to Division Two the following season , Ian 's future with us looked rosy indeed . |
| 25 | What then of the use made of schools by the various socio-economic groups ? |
| 26 | Coupled with the appointment of Sir Walter Marshall , an enthusiastic proponent of the PWR , first as chairman of the UKAEA and then of the CEGB , the door looked wide open for a third generation of British built , if not designed , nuclear power stations . |
| 27 | Unless we are clear about these , in the case of human beings , and then of the grounds for proceeding to apply them to animals , we will be ill-prepared to assess the claim of the scientist or other trained observer that a segment of observed animal behaviour is thoughtful , or intentional , or hopeful , or self-conscious . |
| 28 | The bond which assures the existence of the individual , and provides him with his basic loyalties to his father and brothers and cousins , is also the bond which assures the cohesion of the nations , and then of the world , ‘ but it does become weaker as the numbers become greater ’ . |
| 29 | And here is a recording then of the channel activity in the presence of ten to the minus eight molar calcium , that is ten nanomolar calcium . |
| 30 | He served as Deputy Lieutenant of Midlothian , and then of the City of Edinburgh , from 1956 to 1984 . |