Example sentences of "then there [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there had been another science during which she took periodical gulps of her tea and the sleeping baby stirred and gave small pig-like grunts . |
| 2 | Then there had been Paul 's breakdown , and Nathan Holland had been invaluable there also ; she would have run mad without him . |
| 3 | Until then there had been widespread sympathy for Polish aspirations for greater autonomy ‘ and the government had moved cautiously in that direction . |
| 4 | Up to then there had been little or no solid research in this field and the facts as to sexual elements in British society were still arcane . |
| 5 | Up to then there had been little social division in towns and houses were crowded in on themselves in a formless way . |
| 6 | Since then there had been a number of regional conferences of communist parties , such as the meeting of Latin American parties in 1975 and of European parties in 1976 and 1980 , but many parties refused to attend even these more limited gatherings in case they compromised their organisational independence . |
| 7 | Then there had been nothing — nothing but bare rooms : now there was the semblance of a working facility , even though most of the equipment remained in cases , waiting to be unpacked . |
| 8 | And then there had been Julius 's mother , always dressed in dark , expensive suits , with every strand of her silver hair set firmly into place . |
| 9 | Then there had been the months of creeping doubt , the lack of any real communication between them , and the hostile silences when Julius had refused even to admit that anything was wrong . |
| 10 | And then there had been the Pennebaker film Monterey Pop of the 1967 festival in California , complete with Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix . |
| 11 | Since then there had been several extensions built , a new accident and emergency unit , and a radiotherapy centre . |
| 12 | Then there had been plenty , both physical and emotional , but only then . |
| 13 | He thought it was part of the nightmare at first , though up to then there 'd been nothing much to scream about . |
| 14 | Since then there has been a marked divergence between school and university ; students have become less well equipped , and academics , particularly young ones , have become more high-powered , ambitious , and professionalised . |
| 15 | Since then there has been a long decline . |
| 16 | After that I did not want my son to go to school but in the end some Bengali men in the area took it up with the Headmaster and since then there has been no trouble . |
| 17 | Anyway in the end he and the Education Officer did take some action to control the bullies and since then there has been no trouble . |
| 18 | Then there has been his public struggle with a man named Willis Edwards , President of the Hollywood chapter of American 's venerable NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People ) . |
| 19 | Since then there has been a very slight reversal of this trend , but the proportions are projected to fall again by 2001 ( Social Trends 21 , 1991 ) . |
| 20 | But since then there has been increasing realisation that the two causes must somehow be brought together . |
| 21 | By 1972 , that figure had doubled to over 120,000 offences and since then there has been a steady increase . |
| 22 | Earlier this year the mission was greatly encouraged when one woman was led by God to donate £36,000 towards the Crisis Centre and since then there has been one other substantial gift of £1,000 . |
| 23 | However , as the National Old People 's Welfare Committee noted ( 1963:6 ) , ‘ Since then there has been no apparent official action to promote the employment of elderly people ’ . |
| 24 | However , by the mid-seventies , self-interest brought several unions to pay attention to women 's issues and since then there has been a flurry of union activity directed towards them . |
| 25 | Since then there has been a further , more extreme freshening ( and cooling ) on this density surface . |
| 26 | Previous results showed that the subpolar North Atlantic had warmed between the early 1950s and early 1970s , whereas since then there has been cooling . |
| 27 | Mr. Arlidge 's argument is as follows : The word ‘ defer ’ in this context means ‘ put off ’ or ‘ postpone ’ or ‘ delay ’ and that if a trial takes place after a time which is obviously longer than that normally required for the preparation of a trial of that nature , then there has been the kind of delay prohibited by the statute . |
| 28 | Since then there has been less of a general shortage of labour , but rather a shortfall in skilled , rather than unskilled labour . |
| 29 | Since then there has been very little about electronics and computing to be found . |
| 30 | But since then there has been a steady influx of Bengali plainspeople . |