Example sentences of "[prep] [art] then [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOLLOWING a 20-year career in the Army , Michael Mates , now 57 , was elected for the then Petersfield constituency in 1974 , holding the seat in 1979 with an increased majority . |
| 2 | Sir Martin ( later Lord ) Charteris , who became the Queen 's private secretary in the seventies , had gone to work for the then Princess Elizabeth because his family were friends of the Lascelles . |
| 3 | The report pointed to favouritism and conflict of interest between the then Chirac government and business relations . |
| 4 | DAVID BARDSLEY will be re-united with Graham Taylor in Spain next week — nine years after the then Watford boss signed him from Blackpool . |
| 5 | Delving into the local history of the area , I discovered with amusement that in the early 1850s a certain superintendent of the then London & Birmingham Railway works at Wolverton had designed a fast new locomotive . |
| 6 | Gorbachev 's call for more substantial arms cuts contrasted with the view of the then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that " I do n't think we should expect further dramatic reductions in forces " . |
| 7 | The US move was clearly designed as a challenge to the Castro regime , but it was one which ( in the words of the then US Ambassador to Cuba , Philip Bonsal , who strongly opposed the Treasury decision ) would , if met , give the Cuban revolution a ‘ shot in the arm ’ comparable to the effect of the Suez Crisis on the Nasser regime . |
| 8 | US President Bush ( who had been head of the then US liaison mission in Beijing in 1974-75 ) , appeared to want to restore relations as they had been before the Tiananmen Square massacre , but often came under congressional pressure to adopt a policy more critical of China . |
| 9 | The Assam government had filed a suit in the Supreme Court arguing that its boundary with Nagaland should be based on the 1925 boundaries of the then Naga Hills district . |
| 10 | The meeting , chaired by Ian Smith , Prime Minister of the then Rhodesia in 1964-79 , was attended by the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole of the Zimbabwe African National Union ( Ndonga ) ( ZANU Ndonga ) as well as by representatives from the United African National Council ( UANC — the party which Bishop Abel Muzorewa had headed as Prime Minister of the " internal settlement " Zimbabwe-Rhodesia regime in 1979-80 ) and the Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe ( formed in 1984 and directly descended from Smith 's former whites-only Rhodesian Front ) . |
| 11 | The jubilee , like , indeed , the royal wedding of the then Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh back in 1947 , was less than unbridled in its lavishness . |
| 12 | The Democratic Renewal Party , founded in 1985 in support of the then President Ramalho Eanes , failed to secure enough votes to return a representative to parliament . |
| 13 | He was convicted of the murder of a policeman , of the attempted murder in 1979 of the then NATO Supreme Commander in Europe , Gen. Alexander Haig [ see p. 29913 ] , and of robbery and blackmail . |
| 14 | He had been playing centre-half for Clapton , alongside Denis Hill-Wood , son of the then Arsenal chairman , when he got a telegram from Clapton 's secretary Harry Kordell . |
| 15 | The notes were also reported to show that other senior officials , including the then President Ronald Reagan , were aware of the shipment . |
| 16 | Over £100,000 was spent on the campaign , which ran for six months , and culminated in the then Chancellor Nigel Lawson 's smug remark , following the Budget in March 1985 , that he had never had any intention of imposing a tax on books . |
| 17 | US Secretary of Commerce Barbara Franklin visited China on Dec. 16-18 ; her visit was the first by a US Cabinet member since the then US Secretary of State James Baker visited in November 1991 [ see pp. 38574-75 ] . |
| 18 | The 325-acre Highrove estate was bought by the prince just before his marriage to the then Lady Diana Spencer . |
| 19 | The Glossopteris flora was only one of several widespread late Palaeozoic floras and was itself limited to the then Gondwana region . |
| 20 | It was also rumoured that in the late 1970s or early 1980s the Commission had sold Mark Wood and Latton Wood in Essex to the then Harlow New Town Corporation , because of slow growth and dieback attributed to air pollution . |
| 21 | The Queen was last in Northern Ireland in June 1991 when she presented colours to the then Ulster Defence Regiment during a ceremony at Army headquarters in Lisburn , County Antrim . |
| 22 | The pound fell again in late September over doubts of Britain entering the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European monetary system , but gained strength just prior to the then Chancellor John Major 's announcement that the UK would join the ERM on Oct. 8 , 1990 . |
| 23 | He also claimed that staff aides to the then Vice-President Bush had intervened with HUD in 1985 in order to win a $500,000 grant for a Kansas City developer , Hector Barreto , a longtime supporter of Bush . |
| 24 | Nelson Mandela 's lawyers on Jan. 25 made available to the press copies of a document , originally written by him in prison and given to the then President P. W. Botha in July 1989 , which expressed his own view of the urgent need for the government to negotiate with the ANC . |
| 25 | Relations between the two had been severed in March 1987 following Tunisian accusations that Iran was supporting Islamic groups opposed to the then President Habib Bourguiba . |
| 26 | Birmingham City 's Peter Crawford , who claimed a ‘ school record ’ for the number of suspensions from Mirfield Secondary School , was taken , along with other pupils , to the then Aston Manor Club ( now Aston Villa ABC ) by ‘ a school teacher called Kane who 'd boxed for Ireland at one stage ’ . |
| 27 | Within a few years of the introduction of the Dip.AD , it became apparent that all was not well and discontent in some of the art colleges culminated in the so-called ‘ revolution ’ of 1968 which centred on the then Hornsey and Guildford Colleges of Art . |
| 28 | The privileged position of the inner London five derives from the fact that they were founded by independent charitable institutions , later aided by the then London County Council and subsequently by the ILEA . |
| 29 | Following a visit to China in April 1988 by the then UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , Lord Young of Graffham , the then Minister for Overseas Development , Chris Patten , signed an agreement on aid and trade worth £300,000,000 ( approximately US$500,000,000 ) in Beijing on Sept. 19 . |
| 30 | During building renovations in a Milan flat at the end of October , copies of letters were discovered written in 1978 by the then DC president , Aldo Moro , while he was being held captive by the Red Brigades before they murdered him [ see pp. 29053-55 ] . |