Example sentences of "[noun] then [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sites then began to be linked on the basis of the type of stone tools that they produced , and on some sites different types of stone tools were found in superimposed layers . |
| 2 | The response of the defendants then had to be looked at . |
| 3 | Mains had been born and bred in Dunedin and , especially in the days when the Evening Star newspaper folded , the rugby matters then tended to be faithfully recorded by the Otago Daily Times and other electronic media as if Otago was sometimes being unfairly treated by the teams and newspaper writers from the north . |
| 4 | Attention then had to be directed towards identifying the conditions under which recency rather than primacy would be shown . |
| 5 | That commercial television then proved to be popular is beside the point . |
| 6 | It was part of a wider agricultural system with sheep pastured on the rich meadow grass then walked to be folded on fallow arable areas overnight , where their dung helped to maintain fertility on the thin chalkland soils . |
| 7 | Freddie then applied to be a hostel leader with Lottie as matron . |
| 8 | But after the formation of the first Labour government in 1924 matters potentially became much more serious , since socialists then came to be vested with the power of legislation . |
| 9 | The community health services then came to be financed wholly by central government . |
| 10 | The Christie family then seemed to be marked . |