Example sentences of "then as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learnt an enormous amount and felt then as I do now that there really is n't enough training . |
| 2 | Try saying big glass as you would say big game and then as you would say big deal . |
| 3 | Then as soon as the last act goes up Bobby will ring for a doctor and say that Bunty 's had an accident . |
| 4 | If your technique is delivered after the referee called for a halt , then as well as not scoring you may also pick up a penalty . |
| 5 | In the novel itself we meet the Russian people , the folk , only once , and then as inflictors of suffering , in Raskolnikov 's half-dream ( which is also half-memory ) of a little mare being tortured and finally clubbed to death by drunken peasants . |
| 6 | Then as now , he says , basic goods suddenly disappeared from the shops . |
| 7 | They were known to our predecessors at the time and were expounded by them as clearly then as we can demonstrate them now ; for the reasons were implicit in the facts of the world in 1900 . |
| 8 | ln the early 1930s part of my childhood was spent at Redcar on Teesside , then as now a down at heel seaside resort surrounded by steel works and wind swept dunes . |
| 9 | The object of the exercise is for Vitelli doubly to substitute himself for Clara 's father : first as her husband , then as himself in , and as the father of , her son . |
| 10 | She would never forget the first time , balanced high on the steep roof of the house , huddled from the wind against the chimney-stack , Fenna 's great shadow hovering over her , although Fenna had surely not been so hugely vast then as he was now , his shadow had not obliterated the stars , threatening their very existence . |
| 11 | Then , as now , we had a car fitted with the optional Laycock overdrive , operating on third and top ; then as now it emphasised the low-speed/high-gear flexibility but did show up a big gap between second and third — a gap of over 30mph in maxima . |
| 12 | Jack heard him whistling , ‘ Mabel dear , listen here ’ under the stars and then as the shadow was absorbed and lost in the many tree shadows , the whistle too faded and there was no sound but the gentle chatter of the stream , the Kingsbrook that flowed everlastingly over its bed of thin round stones . |
| 13 | Then as regards contracts . |
| 14 | England began slowly , and then as Gatting and Gooch were accelerating they both fell in quick succession . |
| 15 | Oz edged carefully down the slope , crouching every now and then as he reached a little bilberry bush . |
| 16 | ‘ My aspirations were then as they are now to make it my business to make clothes . |
| 17 | Then as the foal matures , it will form friendships with other horses and develop affection for them too . |
| 18 | Lamond was talking to some people and then as he was leaving he came by me and said , ‘ But , you know , it was n't all as beautiful as you might imagine ! ’ |
| 19 | She explains : ‘ I take a very deep breath before I get on the plane and then as soon as I am on board I get out all my make-up and put it on the table in front of me and spend hours putting it on . |
| 20 | The essential steps in decoding are then as follows : |
| 21 | Not one of the 120 is listed as a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) — but then as the Conservatives have pointed out , the published biographies contain no mention whatever of CND membership . |
| 22 | He presents the stories of each community , first as they reacted to invasion and conquest , then as they were treated a couple of centuries later as white settlers took over their lands , and , finally , how the few surviving descendants of these once-proud people are faring today . |
| 23 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 24 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 25 | Every time I go to Cambridge I come back depressed as hell ; then as soon as I am back to a Norfolk class spirits soar again . |
| 26 | He asked the doctor for some medicine , then as Whitman turned to fetch it , felled him with a tomahawk . |
| 27 | Then as now they are generally preferred humid environments in which to live . |
| 28 | If they are still experiencing the benefits of the last centesimal medicine then as usual you would wait for some indication before repeating or changing remedies at which point the LM can be prescribed . |
| 29 | Then as before take one tablespoon from the stock bottle and add to 8–10 tablespoons of water in a clean cup or glass . |
| 30 | Then as we pass the slaughterhouse at Karantina , I ask the Christian driver the reason for the appalling smell . |