Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] then [being] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While recognising the undeniable ( if somewhat over-stressed ) value of milk in a child 's nutritional development , the Board of Education and Ministry of Health also appreciated that greater milk consumption would be a way of reducing the surplus stocks then being held by producers . |
| 2 | The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed ; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends , population forecasts and traffic growth . |
| 3 | During the war the government took powers over public transport , and when the Grand Junction sought to take advantage of the good prices then being obtained for scrap metal , dismantling and disposal of the lift was forbidden . |
| 4 | However , in 1971 a sub-committee of a committee of the council recommended that there be increases , but later the chairman of the committee gave a public undertaking that the numbers would not be increased above 300 until a private Bill then being promoted had been enacted . |
| 5 | The point beyond Paddington Station chosen for the release of underground steam was in Bayswater , among the new terraces of five-storey houses then being built . |
| 6 | ICI itself acted as a new home when in 1985 it spent $750m on the chemicals operations of Beatrice , an American group then being bought by Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts , a firm similar to Hanson . |
| 7 | In the simplest set-up only two pairs of the phono sockets are used ; the remainder come into play if the tape monitor loop and bi-amping options are selected , the preset level control then being used to match the gainst of the two power amplifiers . |
| 8 | Attention switched to the new Coronations then being delivered , and the other six Vambacs failed to materialise . |