Example sentences of "that was now " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Jordan , president of the engineers ' union AEU , was hissed when he told delegates a Labour government should be ready to play a positive role in a Nato that was now ‘ reaping a spectacular harvest of peace ’ from years of multilateralism . |
| 2 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 3 | To legitimise their activities in Lebanon , the PLO could point to the 1969 Cairo agreement , a dubious document drawn up in Egypt between Arafat and the Lebanese army commander which permitted any Palestinian in Lebanon ‘ to participate in the Palestinian revolution ’ and to assist in guerrilla operations by safeguarding ‘ the road to the Arkoub region ’ , the great volcanic escarpment in south-east Lebanon that was now largely controlled by Arafat 's Fatah gunmen . |
| 4 | With a new rabbit and a short-haired piebald guinea pig in a box , Victoria arrived at a once-grand Queen Anne house in Wiltshire that was now a school devoted to raising the daughters of the gentry . |
| 5 | If that was now imposed on it , it would very seriously damage its business . |
| 6 | Now that was Now look at the vehicles coming the other way and there 's a car in front of the opposing lorry . |
| 7 | It was an odd coincidence that a man should be found dead in the Thames near Stavanger 's office on the day that Stavanger had apparently disappeared , but that was now over four months ago , and in any case the police knew all about it , because the office cleaner had called the police . |
| 8 | No , there was much more to it than that , and it was the much more that was now making her heart constrict . |
| 9 | Since the Aids scare , that was now standard operating procedure . |
| 10 | Later , back up the shore beside their picnic blanket , beside Karen 's sun dress that was now a mass of creeping black , the girls lay on their stomachs and talked again of Parr , desultorily . |
| 11 | You know , that was Now that is a mahogany table , now that table is in It 's been stripped . |