Example sentences of "[was/were] then [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were then spaces for signature , address and date . |
| 2 | There were then questions about the new wage bill . |
| 3 | The parts for the full-sized robot were cast in epoxy and aluminium powder with steel ribbing for strength ; the pieces were then chromium plated . |
| 4 | The Chancellor 's headquarters were then Queen Anne 's Throne Room in what is now the Cabinet Office , and the nearest route to it from 11 Downing Street lay through the connecting doors of number 10 . |
| 5 | In the last attempt , in 1975 , what made unionisation especially difficult was that , although most of the workers were then Asians , they spoke different languages . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , in the Office of Works he was in 1727 appropriately appointed to the new post of clerk of the works at the White Lodge , doubtless through the influence of Herbert ; while in 1734 he was made master carpenter to the Board of Ordnance , a lucrative preferment which he undoubtedly owed to John Campbell , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v. ] , who was then master-general of the Ordnance . |
| 7 | But at that time the plaintiff had no actual existence ; was not a human being ; and was not a passenger — in fact , as Lord Coke says , the plaintiff was then pars viscerum matris , and we have not been referred to any authority or principle to show that a legal duty has ever been held to arise towards that which is not in esse in fact and has only a fictitious existence in law , so as to render a negligent act a breach of that duty . |
| 8 | The basis of recovery was then Law 's fighting capacities as leader . |
| 9 | It was then Chamberlain 's turn to be aghast . |
| 10 | The Naval Intelligence Division ( NID ) contacted Nicholas Elliott , who was then head of MI6 's special naval section ( known as the Merchant Navy section ) , with offices in London 's Vauxhall Bridge Road . |
| 11 | It was then razor cut into long graduated layers to give a full but very natural look . |
| 12 | Some time after this , Mullova went to live in Vienna with Claudio Abbado , who was then music director of the Vienna State Opera . |
| 13 | But his horizons were dramatically broadened when he joined British Steel and was asked by the late Lord Melchett , who was then chairman , to reorganise the fourteen widely dispersed companies that had been put into the same melting pot under the nationalisation programme . |
| 14 | In 1878 The Islay Association printed a report of the proceedings at the Annual General Meeting in Glasgow , which was a special tribute to J. F. Campbell who was then Chairman , and which contains addresses by him , the Reverend Robert Blair , John Ramsay and Professor Blackie , and this is well worth reading . |
| 15 | In 1878 The Islay Association printed a report of the proceedings at the Annual General Meeting in Glasgow , which was a special tribute to J. F. Campbell who was then Chairman , and which contains addresses by him , the Reverend Robert Blair , John Ramsay and Professor Blackie , and this is well worth reading . |
| 16 | As John Payne was then chairman of the East India Company and his brother Edward a director of the Bank of England , Smith & Payne , almost from its commencement , was a prestigious house that could attract the correspondence of other country banks and desirable town and country business . |
| 17 | Not really the sort of thing that dear old Boy Glastonbury , who was then chairman , could have been expected to deal with . |
| 18 | It was then Ruth was filled with such an anger that she had to crush tight her fists to stop herself from flying up the steps to beat at Fernando 's chest . |
| 19 | It was then Laura had realised that , however difficult it might be , she would make any sacrifice in order for the twins to be as happy and contented as possible . |
| 20 | It was then Aberdeen 's turn to stare elimination in the face , and expulsion of the most embarrassing sort for a side who had earlier enjoyed a supposedly comfortable lead over the team from the lower league . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | When the Clerical Directory came to be planned , Cox 's professional ethics ( he was then recorder of Helston and Falmouth ) forbade the use of his name in the title . |
| 23 | Our Mary was then Cinderella until the evening of the function . |
| 24 | Eventually , though not yet for many years , when Deep Level came up under here ore was dropped down to there and trammed out all the way to the Bonsor Mill ; Paddy End Mill was then shutdown . |
| 25 | When the Macedonians broke away from ex-Yugoslavia last year , the man who was then Greece 's foreign minister , Antonis Samaras , told his EC colleagues that the new state could not have the word ‘ Macedonia ’ in its name . |
| 26 | In fact , in about 1971 there was a sudden spate of development in this area , and both the University Library and what was then Brighton Public Library and West Sussex all were innovators in those days , using computer-based lending systems , which used little cards with lots of little holes in them and — I am sure they are familiar to lots of people — in the last few years you 'll have seen those holes replaced by sort of zebra stripes erm what are called bar codes in the trade , and those bar codes you 'll also see on your groceries all over the place . |
| 27 | In fact , in about 1971 there was a sudden spate of development in this area , and both the university library and what was then Brighton Public Library , and West Sussex , all were innovators in those days , using computer-based lending systems , which used little cards with lots of little holes in them , and I am sure they are familiar to lots of people . |
| 28 | The pilot ejected safely before the plane nose-dived into what was then marshland . |
| 29 | Knowles , who was then Curate of St. Mary 's in Stockport , had the support of the Rector , Mayor , and Aldermen of the Town , but Jackson was recommended by nineteen other clergymen , " other gentlemen who have had university education … among whom is Mr. Brooke to whom both candidates were scholars [ at Manchester Grammar School ] " , and the Dean and Senior Fellow of Brasenose College , Oxford ( whence Knowles also had graduated ) . |
| 30 | In other words , controlling as he did the nominations to all learned appointments in whichever of the areas he was then kazasker , he would urge young scholars to enter the relative dead end of the career of kasabat kadi and thereby prevent them from passing up through the ranks of medreses to become candidates for mevleviyets and thus rivals to his own position . |