Sentence examples for then but of from inspiring English sources

It's not just a matter of cleaning up, then, but of a mess that's still being made.

I almost wrote "classic existentialist" novel then – but, of course, that was a tag the author himself never accepted.

He was not coach of the Waikato Chiefs of the Super 12, as it was numbered then, but of Waikato, who played in the National Provincial Championship.

More foreign investment to boost Mexico's flagging energy output; cuts in over-generous public pensions; a more efficient, "adversarial" judicial system modelled on America's; and of course, better education.This is a contest not of ideas, then, but of personalities and party machines.

My friends and I tried to escape as fast as possible back then, but of course we miss it more and more now. .

Accordingly, when I limn the astonishingly quick climb up the "Mad Men" ladder Mother made during her second act, it is not from the point of view of the child I was then but of the man I've become.

Not just East of Eden, then, but West of Warminster too?

"There [are] moments of absolute darkness every now and then... but of course they also have their dazzling bright moments every other century," he balances his view with a touch of Persian sarcasm.

It's been emotional, sort of, but then of course it has.

But then most of us grow up.

But then, think of the other side.