Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] now a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Windmills , which had begun to come into existence during the 16th century were by now a common sight throughout the Lothians . |
| 2 | Noreen was by now a very attractive young woman and richly dressed in the height of fashion , but even the light veil covering her face could n't hide her obvious embarrassment . |
| 3 | Although Chapman was by now a famous man , and his name was familiar to thousands who had never attended a football match , on a social level he remained as affable and unassuming as the next man . |
| 4 | He was by now a very powerful man and had created jealousy and resentment . |
| 5 | There was by now a continual branching off of sub-orders , and more easily acquired food enabled basic structure changes to get under way . |
| 6 | John Hayward , for example , was by now a close friend : he was a bibliophile and editor of precocious talent , who in 1926 , at the age of twenty-one , had published an edition of Rochester 's poems . |
| 7 | His was by now a familiar position , and the critical reactions to it had also become predictable : praise at his critical acumen in the examination of individual authors was mixed with scorn or bafflement at the general principles he espoused . |
| 8 | His father 's family was by now a familiar part of his life , but he felt no particular attachment to any of them . |
| 9 | In November of 1954 , Williams began a series of lectures at the Public Library , and while the theme of these lectures was by now a familiar one to his audiences ( education in the West Indies ) , the public debate that ensued between Williams and the Reverend Dom . |
| 10 | Parthia was by now a remote state , though formidable : the Magi had some of the prestige of the mysterious region from which they came and offered spiritual goods of their own . |
| 11 | Bernard was by now a junior lecturer in the same college where he had taken his degree . |