Example sentences of "[pron] were then " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 2 | Well erm if I were then to ask you when what was your best estimate to when the programme was likely to be commenced . |
| 3 | The lotus leaf needed to line the bamboo steamer for the Szechwan dish of steamed beef and rice flour was examined with interest , as were the ingredients used to make the rice flour — short grain rice , cinnamon bark , star anise and ‘ special ’ wild pepper — which were then sautéed dry for 15 minutes and ground into a semolina-type texture after the removal of the bark and anise . |
| 4 | In our marginal universe , we pursued offences which were then not even classified as crimes in the Home Office Standard list , and were pitched into a new philosophical world structured by a number of alternative social constructs . |
| 5 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
| 6 | The stores and construction sectors , which were then booming , produced average pay rises of more than 20 per cent . |
| 7 | I helped do the Sex sign and put all this foam rubber on the walls which were then decorated with quotations from Alexand Trocchi , soft porn spray can graffiti from the ‘ 68 Paris student revolt . |
| 8 | The Attorney-General took proceedings in the Court of Exchequer against those landowners who refused to compound : where necessary he obtained a writ of injunction sequestrating the assarted lands , which were then leased to other tenants . |
| 9 | The ballot was secret and the votes put in sealed envelopes , which were then handed to Miss Shubik , checked , passed to the assistant director of BAFTA , then on to Mr Byrne . |
| 10 | The ballot was secret and the votes put in sealed envelopes , which were then handed to Miss Shubik , checked , passed to the assistant director of BAFTA , then on to Mr Byrne . |
| 11 | Mr McNamara is alleged to have borrowed money from General Motors to buy custom-built vans which were then re-sold to a company based in Cyprus . |
| 12 | Both agreed to modifications in the proposals which were then considered from December 1938 until February 1939 . |
| 13 | The ground was largely excavated by hand , and shovelled into small tipping trucks , which were then hauled on rails by horses.4 ; Excavated material from the lower level was raised to form the top of the planes and a stretch of embanked canal to connect them with the summit pound . |
| 14 | Ben Ami lies just five miles south of the Lebanese border , well within range of the Katyusha rockets which were then being fired by Palestinian guerrillas around Tyre and Rashidiyeh ; there were concrete air-raid shelters with iron doors between the bungalows . |
| 15 | During the 1950s , and by the 1960s packages had been designed in the United States , which were then transferred to the very different physical and social conditions of the Third World . |
| 16 | One of the police officers responded by referring to the ‘ new manual ’ , parts of which were then read out in court . |
| 17 | They took over the main Fleetwood service from the old Company cars , which were then used on the short-workings . |
| 18 | Pennethorne submitted four alternative schemes with costs on 31st August , 1855 , which were then revised and resubmitted to Hall on 14th September , when one scheme was chosen . |
| 19 | Many a summer evening was spent in slicing runner beans which were then packed in layers of salt in large crocks for the winter . |
| 20 | To investigate the FI category , the database was first rearranged to separate out the FI items , which were then listed by functional group . |
| 21 | During the second month , two unsigned claims were processed and passed for payment , which were then returned to the claimants for signature . |
| 22 | There was also a requirement to maintain consistency with past practice by generally following the file references of the departments which were then in use . |
| 23 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 24 | Amongst other things , the consultants recommended the adoption of a housing policy to cope with the increasing number of planning applications for private houses which were then coming from recently-arrived oil-workers and newly-prosperous Orcadians , as well as the likelihood of even more applications in the future . |
| 25 | Nos. 11E , 18E and 20E with four others were sold to Cohens without trucks which were then used to replace unsatisfactory trucks under the seven Erith covered top cars , which were to remain in service a little longer . |
| 26 | Propaganda films from the first years of the Soviet system show enthusiastic crowds , and sometimes , in the background , weeping elderly women , watching the officially sanctioned looting of churches , which were then demolished or turned into granaries or museums of ‘ scientific atheism ’ . |
| 27 | In early 1945 I went with U Kyaw Min to Ceylon to talk to British forces which were then thought to be waiting for a seaborne invasion of Burma . |
| 28 | However , if such probes were programmed so that , each time they encountered a planetary system , they located a suitable asteroid and from its raw materials built several replicas of themselves , which were then despatched to further stars , the chances of success would be staggeringly increased . |
| 29 | He was clothed in the vestments of the Seven Orders of the Church and the insignia of an archbishop , which were then each solemnly stripped from him . |
| 30 | In 1853 his whole collected works were published for the first time with an introduction in which the editor , George Offor , hailed them as a weapon in the struggle against ‘ the mighty efforts ’ which were then being made ‘ to enthral the country in the Satanic yoke of popery or its dark ill-shapen brother Puseyism ’ . |