Example sentences of "[was/were] then [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parts for the full-sized robot were cast in epoxy and aluminium powder with steel ribbing for strength ; the pieces were then chromium plated . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , in the Office of Works he was in 1727 appropriately appointed to the new post of clerk of the works at the White Lodge , doubtless through the influence of Herbert ; while in 1734 he was made master carpenter to the Board of Ordnance , a lucrative preferment which he undoubtedly owed to John Campbell , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v. ] , who was then master-general of the Ordnance . |
| 3 | The basis of recovery was then Law 's fighting capacities as leader . |
| 4 | The Naval Intelligence Division ( NID ) contacted Nicholas Elliott , who was then head of MI6 's special naval section ( known as the Merchant Navy section ) , with offices in London 's Vauxhall Bridge Road . |
| 5 | It was then razor cut into long graduated layers to give a full but very natural look . |
| 6 | Some time after this , Mullova went to live in Vienna with Claudio Abbado , who was then music director of the Vienna State Opera . |
| 7 | But his horizons were dramatically broadened when he joined British Steel and was asked by the late Lord Melchett , who was then chairman , to reorganise the fourteen widely dispersed companies that had been put into the same melting pot under the nationalisation programme . |
| 8 | In 1878 The Islay Association printed a report of the proceedings at the Annual General Meeting in Glasgow , which was a special tribute to J. F. Campbell who was then Chairman , and which contains addresses by him , the Reverend Robert Blair , John Ramsay and Professor Blackie , and this is well worth reading . |
| 9 | In 1878 The Islay Association printed a report of the proceedings at the Annual General Meeting in Glasgow , which was a special tribute to J. F. Campbell who was then Chairman , and which contains addresses by him , the Reverend Robert Blair , John Ramsay and Professor Blackie , and this is well worth reading . |
| 10 | As John Payne was then chairman of the East India Company and his brother Edward a director of the Bank of England , Smith & Payne , almost from its commencement , was a prestigious house that could attract the correspondence of other country banks and desirable town and country business . |
| 11 | Not really the sort of thing that dear old Boy Glastonbury , who was then chairman , could have been expected to deal with . |
| 12 | When the Clerical Directory came to be planned , Cox 's professional ethics ( he was then recorder of Helston and Falmouth ) forbade the use of his name in the title . |
| 13 | Eventually , though not yet for many years , when Deep Level came up under here ore was dropped down to there and trammed out all the way to the Bonsor Mill ; Paddy End Mill was then shutdown . |
| 14 | The pilot ejected safely before the plane nose-dived into what was then marshland . |
| 15 | Knowles , who was then Curate of St. Mary 's in Stockport , had the support of the Rector , Mayor , and Aldermen of the Town , but Jackson was recommended by nineteen other clergymen , " other gentlemen who have had university education … among whom is Mr. Brooke to whom both candidates were scholars [ at Manchester Grammar School ] " , and the Dean and Senior Fellow of Brasenose College , Oxford ( whence Knowles also had graduated ) . |
| 16 | In other words , controlling as he did the nominations to all learned appointments in whichever of the areas he was then kazasker , he would urge young scholars to enter the relative dead end of the career of kasabat kadi and thereby prevent them from passing up through the ranks of medreses to become candidates for mevleviyets and thus rivals to his own position . |
| 17 | In 1715 , for example , when the collectorship of Stirlingshire was being made an issue by interests unfriendly to the Administration , the friends of the Duke of Montrose , who was then Secretary of State , arranged for John Stirling , a brother of the Laird of Herbertshire , to become collector jointly with the previous holder of the office , Gabriel Napier of Craigannet . |
| 18 | Despite this obstacle , Sturt was determined to press ahead with the expedition , and on 19 May he appealed to Gould to exert any pressure he could on Lord Derby to encourage his son , Lord Stanley — who was then Secretary of State for the Colonies — to back the proposal . |
| 19 | She spent 18 years working for director of statistics and computers , Mr Ramm , and was then secretary to Len Payne , director of distribution . |
| 20 | Although the Caucasus was then part of Russia , it was not until the mid-20th century that its borders were defined and political stability was achieved . |
| 21 | In 1889 a baby girl was born in Ireland , which was then part of the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | ‘ Practically all fibre production in Europe fell into very significant loss about 1980 and ICI business was no exception ; we went into heavy and traumatic loss , ’ said Coleman who was then part of the Fibres production management team . |
| 23 | In the case of the first one to be founded after 1850 — Dundee in 1853 — a deaf person , Alexander Drysdale who was then headmaster of the Dundee School for the Deaf took the lead to establish an adult mission . |
| 24 | In Northern Ireland , the Kinghan Mission was founded in 1857 in Belfast due to the interests of the Rev. Kinghan who was then Headmaster of the Ulster Institution . |
| 25 | Gallus died in 551 , and by 552 Gregory was a deacon in Lyons , where Nicetius was then bishop . |
| 26 | Mixed with the undersize , it was then hand sorted into three grades : solid chalcopyrite ; good ore with some gangue or rock adhering ; and low grade stuff The solid ore was passed to the bucking shed where maidens using heavy buckers , hammers with wide flat heads , beat it on iron plates , each fed from a small hopper ( See Fig. 22 ) , to about thumbnail size . |
| 27 | Many had left Europe precisely to escape from its problems , and the majority of the people supported the position adopted by Woodrow Wilson , the Democrat who was then President . |
| 28 | He was able to make use of parrots not only in the Society 's collection , but in the vast private menageries of Lord Stanley , who was then president of both the Zoological and Linnean Societies , and who would later become Lear 's principal patron ; and in the collections of Sir Henry Halford , ‘ the eel-backed baronet ’ and physician to George IV and William IV ; of Lady Mountcharles ; and of Vigors himself , who was a neighbour of Lear 's at Chester Terrace . |
| 29 | It was then time to dig over the kitchen garden , although we now had help . |
| 30 | It was then time to go home . |