Example sentences of "[conj] could then be " in BNC.
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| 1 | R. H. S. Crossman was born in 1907 , and was the ambivalent recipient of the best education that could then be provided for the son of a professional family : Winchester and New College . |
| 2 | The method adopted was to canvass for capital donations that could then be invested to bring in a regular income , and both Balfour and Law were used to raise the wind . |
| 3 | Forbidding though the prospect may be , he needs another talking shop — a commission whose function would be to draw up a definitive Russian constitution that could then be entrenched against the amending whims of the Congress . |
| 4 | If you multiply that up , that is £250,000 worth of money that could then be given to alternative developments . |
| 5 | Again one can see local variations : in Kent , where there was partible inheritance by the local custom called gavelkind , peasant holdings were subject to constant division and could then be reconsolidated , because the holders of land had a free right to alienate it . |
| 6 | The original conception of the public corporation was that it had only to be given its ‘ marching orders ’ by the political authority and could then be left to pursue the ‘ national interest ’ as management saw fit ( SCNI 1968 : 34 ) . |