Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] be then " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same school I also recognised the importance of freedom of choice , when I approached what was then the equivalent of O-levels . |
| 2 | Wandsworth and Pentonville , in London , with rather less capacity , were built at about the same time to serve what was then the largest city in the world . |
| 3 | By April he had recovered sufficiently to travel to America once more , to see his sisters ; this visit is perhaps most remarkable for the fact that he addressed the largest assembly ever gathered to attend a literary lecture ( he also received what was then the largest fee for such an event , some two thousand dollars ) . |
| 4 | Alternative identifications were produced which were then reduced by post-processing techniques . |
| 5 | John joined what was then the Ministry of Labour and National Service in 1956 . |
| 6 | Detectives decided to use what was then a fairly new technique to help give body an identity . |
| 7 | When he was up and about , he also spent some time in the kitchen , having become what was then called a ‘ health-food fanatic ’ . |
| 8 | They forget that the Scottish National Party 's support for renationalising what was then left of the Scottish steel industry proved of declining electoral value the closer it went to Motherwell . |
| 9 | During June and July 1956 Messiaen recorded what was then his complete published output for the organ . |
| 10 | As a result , Haslam inherited what was then the plastic-film group , which was at an embryonic stage of development . |
| 11 | Many young girls lost what was then termed as their most prized possession … their virginity . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They are like the newly swept house of which our Lord spoke which was then taken over by more spirits than before ( Matt. |
| 14 | The Israeli government insisted that while the Palestinian representatives should be drawn from the occupied territories rather than the Palestinian " diaspora " ( a term which included those who in 1948 had left what was then Palestine , and their descendants ) , they should not be residents of Jerusalem ( as were both Husseini and Ashrawi ) . |
| 15 | In 1825 he used an artesian tube to sink what was then the largest well known in the country , eighty feet deep and thirty feet wide . |
| 16 | All the available evidence suggests , then , that on occasions he made what were then fashionably anti-semitic remarks to his close friends . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This was particularly so in the early months before and after vesting day , and the concentrated pattern of working which was then established proved very resistant to change in later years . |