Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] now [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was a history that was now informed by the lengthy experience of partition , Polenpolitik and Kulturkampf As such it was a history that was perceived and shaped in terms of feelings , legacies , fears and foes . |
| 2 | I had been interviewing a family — four young brothers , two sisters , their parents , the children 's paternal grandmother — about their lives in a city that was now dominated by the Syrian army . |
| 3 | It was a large , rather forbidding and gloomy building , called Battersby Grammar School , and it was on the fringe of that decayed , desolate , once-grand grey fringe that surrounds the centres of most cities ; the houses in this area , large and terraced and of some dignity , had been long abandoned by the middle classes , and were now occupied by families who could not afford to live anywhere else . |
| 4 | It supplied only a fifth of the nation 's energy supplies , far behind oil , and was now challenged by nuclear power . |
| 5 | The food had been prepared in the palace and was now served by the Shahs own cook , Ali Kabiri . |
| 6 | Cy McCray was a tough little American jockey who had settled in Britain and was now retained by the Ian Gardem stable . |
| 7 | The greengrocer 's shop and delicatessen across the street from the apartment , whose number Quinn had obtained from the London telephone directory in the sitting-room cabinet , was called Bradshaw , after the man who had started it , but was now owned by an Indian gentleman called Mr Patel . |
| 8 | He shifted under her , sliding her away so that she was still bound to him by the steel bands of his arms , but was now lying by his side . |