Example sentences of "be now [verb] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | But funerals in any expensive way here with us , are now accounted but as a fruitlesse vanitie , insomuch that almost all the ceremoniall rites of obsequies heretofore used , are altogether laid aside : for we see daily that Noblemen , and Gentlemen of eminent ranke , office , and qualitie , are either silently buried in the night time , with a Torch , a two-penie Linke , and a Lanterne ; or parsimoniously interred in the day-time , by the helpe of some ignorant countrey-painter , without the attendance of any one of the Officers of Armes , whose chiefest support , and maintenance , hath ever depended upon the performance of such funerall rites , and exequies . |
| 2 | This painting is now lost but a photograph of it was reproduced in Stamford Then and Now , a limited edition commemorative volume produced by Stamford Corporation in 1951 , and the drawing on page 76 is a copy of it . |
| 3 | Nearby is the site of the cathedral which is now destroyed but whose narthex still remains , with its original entrance ( 409 ) . |
| 4 | After yesterday 's case Shepherd said : ‘ Flash is now recovering but faces a further operation . ’ |
| 5 | Their season is now finished but he intends to compete again . |