Example sentences of "then that " in BNC.

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1 It was then that I became fully aware of how your personality is really at stake .
2 A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation .
3 After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing .
4 ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife .
5 Another two moved on shortly afterwards and it was then that the intimidation began .
6 I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started .
7 It is little wonder then that social research is equated with ‘ clap trap ’ in police magazines , for they aim to support the beliefs of those who have taken on this unconscious cosmology , and for whom as Bourdieu ( ibid. ) indicates , such challenges would defy ‘ the most natural manifestations of submission to the established order [ and abolish ] lateral possibilities ’ .
8 One might suggest then that the ‘ major project ’ Holdaway recognized was missing from the college inventory is still to come !
9 I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square .
10 It was then that choreographers turned their attention to music already available , very often because financial difficulties prevented any approach being made to a living composer .
11 Benskins increased his rent by £6,000 last year and John is convinced they must have known then that leases policy .
12 He suggests that he 's got no evidence , then that he 's got some evidence , then both at once : ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — the torture tune .
13 And it was 1952 before that road was taken — by Hugh Kenner ; it was only then that responsible criticism of Pound became possible — everything before that belongs , as it were , in pre-history .
14 It was then that she met ‘ the love of my life ’ : he answered an ad she placed in the local paper for someone to read to her .
15 I suppose he had forgotten that when Bill Jordan , president of the engineering workers ' union , asked him during the 1987 election campaign to announce then that he would hold a referendum on unilateralism after the election , he declined and replied that people would come round to it once they understood .
16 Mr Lenarduzzi endorses her view : ‘ If our concentration is going to be on testing , then that would not be welcome .
17 ‘ It was then that he realised that the whole island was alive .
18 There was no hint then that the Mail was running on such a short fuse .
19 But it was absolutely clear to me then that I had n't the political antennae , the political flair .
20 Wisps of distant music , the creak of machinery , enigmatic shiftings of light , a spasm of slow-motion : first you realise that this house ( in Dermot Hayes 's cunningly flimsy set , a little Calvary of stunted , corroding masts ) is haunted , then that it is doomed ; and then , the real turn of the screw , that these people may really want to be doomed .
21 Wasps can only wish then that this weekend 's activities are as fruitful , the students putting on a brave show with two second-half tries from their dashing wing , Andy Parton , but Wasps — fielding only two of this season 's first-teamers — winning with something to spare thanks largely to the goal-kicking of Paddy Young .
22 But he added : ‘ If , however , it means that managers are so distracted discussing the process of privatisation that they have no time left to manage , then that would be a most unhappy state of affairs . ’
23 The unlucky loser was Reid but then that 's been the story of his season .
24 It was then that she read Angela Kunze 's manifesto , written in blue on a long ribbon of paper above her head where she rests against the wall : ‘ I am fasting to cleanse myself of fear and hopelessness , hate and violence , impatience and the lust for novelty .
25 It follows then that the ‘ Action Men ’ are often seen as incompetent and as avoiding work which calls for common sense .
26 We accept then that , responsibility or no responsibility , commission or no commission , prices may behave in such a way that profits rise faster than a certain rate , that rate being the rate at which incomes other than profits — or perhaps incomes including profits ? — are increasing .
27 It was then that I began to discover the fate that awaited me as a female .
28 What more natural then that we could hang up our football boots , change into our French cavaliers ' outfits or as quickly become Roman gladiators ?
29 I also knew then that seeing the film at a matinee on a weekday was an illicit pleasure for her .
30 What price then that metaphysical guarantee of social differentiation when it is so easily abolished in the confusion it was supposed to preempt and render impossible ?
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