Example sentences of "were now [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They watched in silence until he came closer , then , as he swooped between the grey walls of the drawbridge and came clattering into the courtyard over cobblestones that were now covered only by a thin film of slush , Marc deliberately removed his arm from around her waist . |
| 32 | Looking down at the man who had quietly assisted her and whose clothes were now covered in the other man 's blood , she said , ‘ You 'd better go with them as well . ’ |
| 33 | The single-storey grey stone building stood amid fields where vines and figs used to grow in abundance , but which had been left to run wild and were now covered in bright carpets of wild flowers . |
| 34 | The Russians who went to war on their side were now regarded as their enemies , and he contended that the reason why the British government was trying to prevent the Russian Government trading with this country and was using Polish forces to fight the Russian people was because the people of Russia had set up a form of Government which was antagonistic to a capitalist Government like theirs . |
| 35 | Shrines , chantries , and reliquaries were plundered or demolished , and the interiors of churches were denuded of their images , which were now regarded as idolatrous . |
| 36 | Having reached the initial , simple decision about lettering ( plain , unadorned and to the point ) and material ( unpolished limestone slab ) they were now floored over questions of layout and surroundings . |
| 37 | Her pups were now piled together in a cardboard box lined with an old woollen jumper and several sheets of brown paper . |
| 38 | At first this was hard to prove , since local authorities were now given many new relief duties : at the same time a number of extensive taxation rights were transferred away from them to the Centre . |
| 39 | At its most blatant , posts which had once been the preserve of dons from Oxford or Cambridge were now given to businessmen . |
| 40 | The Frome Turnpike Trustees have returned to the scene ; the powers vested in them by previous legislation having been insufficient to meet their needs , they were now given a helping hand on 19 June 1797 , with : |
| 41 | He also remembered with a sense of humiliation and disgust that the pages of the Informer were now given over to articles on gay rights , the ‘ politics of feminism ’ and peer pressure towards glue-sniffing in the inner cities . |
| 42 | Fishing crews were now given the alternative option of remaining in port for a total of 135 days during the same period . |
| 43 | More and more they were now given the title of " extraordinary " , even when they remained for long periods at the courts to which they were sent : increasingly the term , applied to either an ambassador or an envoy , became a mere title of honour . |
| 44 | Moreover local authorities , viewed by the previous Labour government as the ‘ natural agencies ’ to tackle such regeneration , were now seen as a major cause of the problem . |
| 45 | The return of the Conservative Party to power in 1979 simply accelerated the collapse of regional policies ; they were now seen as unhelpful both in theoretical as well as pragmatic terms . |
| 46 | On the other hand , the issues were now seen broadly in terms of welfare ; the physical arrangements of housing and land use had to be part of a wider canvas which tackled poverty and social opportunity . |
| 47 | Forty years earlier the promise of town planning was that it could address the urban housing problems of the day , but the principles of environmental regulations were now seen to relate to a quite different set of questions : the problems of regional economic development . |
| 48 | The young man paused to gather his breath and Corbett , still only half awake , felt pity for this young man whose life and energy were now narrowed to justify his conduct on one night out of thousands . |
| 49 | Neither owned any property , but from the fact that Elizabeth 's assessment was reduced to £30 for the second instalment of the subsidy in 1525 , while Thomas and Malyn were now taxed on 20 marks apiece , it is logical to deduce that they were her children , lately come of age . |
| 50 | Within each section of the company workers were now rotated from job to job automatically , regularly , and compulsorily , and this system covered a range of levels , not just the most de-skilled of the jobs . |
| 51 | These were now crystallized in an expanded discourse on male and female sexuality . |
| 52 | His functions were now split between several officers who specialised in counter-insurgency . |
| 53 | The filthy colonial military compounds so recently evacuated by the British and French provided convenient quarters for those who were now destined to spend most of their lives in exile , even though neither they nor their unwilling Lebanese hosts yet knew that they would have to do so . |
| 54 | More significantly , under Chapter II university extension courses were now recognised as eligible for grant-aid — after an existence of more than fifty years . |
| 55 | Salaries were now arranged in a more systematic hierarchy and paid more regularly than in the past . |
| 56 | It was on his prompting that ethnic drop-out youths were now accepted onto college courses without formal qualifications ; it was on his urging that examinations were now being set and marked in Urdu and other minority languages , the faculties shamed at last out of their insistence that English was the only language in the world that counted . |
| 57 | In 1983 , Dr R G Pawsey from the Commonwealth Forestry Institute reported an ash dieback survey which showed that 80–90 per cent of the trees in areas such as north Buckinghamshire ( near Milton Keynes ) were now affected . |
| 58 | Two other organizations were now formed : the Iraqi Kurdestan Front , a grouping of several existing Iraqi parties with a largely Kurdish flavour ; and the London-based Organization for Human Rights in Iraq , whose secretary-general was Dr Saheb al-Hakim , again a member of this well-known opposition family . |
| 59 | Reinforcements were now poured into Kent , Sussex and Hampshire while of the 10,000 soldiers immediately available in England 7000 were earmarked to defend London and the south-east . |
| 60 | If it were now fixed in Kenamun 's mind that Surere was the killer , another murder would be all that would save Merymose 's neck . |