Sentence examples for then purely from inspiring English sources

Is this book, then, purely romantic?

That became clear when in 1978 Sony, then purely a hardware business, came up with the Walkman, the first truly portable cassette player.

After working as secretary for the concert promoter Harvey Goldsmith, Tessa became a PR at the folk label Transatlantic, where Billy Connolly, then purely a folksinger, loved her thorough Englishness and would address her as "Vera Lynn".

When you consider, even briefly, what the law says outside of the words "exchanges established by the state" you see how uncharitable it is to read those words in isolation.The government can win its case, then, purely on the basis of its compelling (or at least reasonable) reading of the statutory text.

This technique is based on the linearization of transport equations and it is computationally much more efficient then purely "statistical" methods that are based on the simulation of a large number of devices with different doping realizations.

Images are then purely considered as data planes from which structure parameters have to be determined as accurately and precisely as possible using a parametric statistical model of the observations.

After China's revolution in 1949 HSBC, then a purely Asian bank, lost half its business.

Her attack then gets purely personal: "I have seen several Katharine Birbalsinghs come and go.

Stills photography then was purely for publicity purposes; I was interested in the film-making process.

Protestants became citizens for the first time in what had been until then a purely Roman Catholic town.

A Berlin landmark, the bridge was badly damaged in the second world war and then employed purely as a pedestrian border crossing.