Example sentences of "[was/were] then in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five of the boats were then in build and number two was virtually complete , on time to take centre stage at the London Boat Show , where she was displayed outside Earls Court . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The same manifesto committed a Labour Government to preventing the siting of cruise missiles in Britain and to the removal of any that were then in place . |
| 4 | I consider that we must proceed on the basis that at the date this agreement was entered into , March 26 , 1952 , the wife was then in desertion . |
| 5 | The relation of this excess to the present study has a rather complicated history — with the excess near Sellafield , it originally suggested the population mixing hypothesis , but what was then in mind was the mixing connected with the nuclear industry ; an analogy with a new town was drawn . |
| 6 | The prosecution under the Official Secrets Act was launched on 12 January 1971 ( the Conservative Party was then in power and had inherited this state prosecution from its Labour predecessors ) and lasted three and a half weeks . |
| 7 | Christopher Patten , who was then in charge of the Research Department , but is now in total control of the Party machine , will find it difficult to re-establish the library and its heritage , even supposing that the catalogues have been kept so that he knows what has been lost . |
| 8 | Old Bill was then in charge . |
| 9 | The cause of the tears was the arrival , a few days earlier , of a parcel at the busy Buckingham Palace office which she shared with Michael Colbourne , who was then in charge of the Prince 's finances , and several others . |
| 10 | When a politician took a stand on the question of the collectorship , a successful election was essentially a reaffirmation of the strength of the political interest which was then in control of the parliamentary seat , while a defeat in this apparently local question was usually the harbinger of a severe electoral contest when Parliament should be dissolved . |