Example sentences of "were now [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the cameras were now discovering and what audiences were now reacting to was Cagney 's own reality , a unique one-off reality or presence , albeit of the kind one hopes to run into whenever entering a New York bar . |
| 2 | Voters were now said to be more worried about ‘ poor public services ’ than they were about high taxes . |
| 3 | Vegetables were now beginning to be used as an integral part of the diet . |
| 4 | These representatives corresponded regularly and sometimes very frequently with the governments for which they acted ; from the early sixteenth century onwards their despatches and reports , preserved in the official archives which were now beginning to be formed , are one of the most important sources of information available to the historian . |
| 5 | The report said that , as a result of the disease 's spread in rural areas , one in 40 adult men and women in the area were now believed to be HIV carriers . |
| 6 | Faced , therefore , with the apparent metamorphosis of a colonial war and continuing French sacrifices for what were now declared to be American purposes , the US had succeeded in trapping itself . |
| 7 | For , as we have seen , intermixed with the foundations of perpetual prayers — which in the Act were now declared to be " superstitious " — were the educational foundations . |
| 8 | The Corridor through which Poland had access to the sea ran almost exactly through Pomerelia and the area occupied by the Kaszubes — who were now considered to be Polish . |
| 9 | In fact , the pop industry has always embodied what were now coming to be known as ‘ Thatcherite ’ values : highly competitive , determined by ‘ market forces ’ , with no grants , no subsidies , negligible government interference . |
| 10 | When the long-awaited Invasion finally started , we were sure that the lives which had been lost were now going to be partly justified , because the boot was definitely on the other foot and the Germans had had it . |
| 11 | His earlier much-fabled ‘ ruthless determination ’ and fanatical single-mindedness were now becoming to be regarded as a major liability , and the command to the 6th Army to fight to the last man was seen as its fateful demonstration . |