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 ? |