Example sentences of "but now a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now a new generation of Japanese collectors is coming into the market and their taste is for much stronger , more colourful things , such as prints by Miro . |
| 2 | Our group of four included the one man in the party , a 35-year-old barrister , a girl of 30-something , myself , and Helen , our guide — once a guest but now a member of the staff . |
| 3 | There is a Youth Hostel and a few cottages provide overnight accommodation ; once there was an inn , the Cathole , but now a fading memory . |
| 4 | But now a donkey brayed and the faint chant of women drifted with wood smoke from the town . |
| 5 | A record shows , 'The inhabitants of the place said we never saw it in this fashion before ; we were left to wander and none cared for our souls ; but now a brighter day has dawned for us . ’ |
| 6 | The first Russian to mount the wall fell at once to a bullet from one of Thiercelin 's men , but now a slavonic deluge swamped the wall in a wave of green and grey , bayonets fixed , overran the Frenchmen on the terrace and began smashing at the door . |
| 7 | But now a face from the past threatened to destroy their happiness … |
| 8 | It was a great joke while it lasted , but now a humble three-piece band from Seattle has rendered the whole joke redundant . |
| 9 | But now a former French cabinet minister is vowing to repeal the law . |
| 10 | Annabel Croft , once the British No 1 but now a star of stage and the small screen , cringed at the quality of her performance in the opening round of the Volkswagen National Championships at Telford yesterday . |
| 11 | BRITAIN 'S State pensions are among the lowest in Europe , but now a new , Devon-based , pressure group called Linkage is campaigning for old folk . |
| 12 | The path goes on to pass through Binswood , once a deer park but now a Site of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 13 | But now a more menacing threat was posed for Russia : massed German units were attacking the Polish salient from the north , while Austro-German armies thrust up from the southeast — precisely the strategy that the Austrian commander General Conrad von Hötzendorff had advocated in 1914 . |
| 14 | But now a new rumour filled all ears . |
| 15 | But now a paper in The Lancet ( 341 , 889 ; 1993 appears to some to have thrown a spanner in the works : certainly it has caused a furore of misinterpretation by newspapers and others . |
| 16 | He tells us that , ‘ with the reassessment of this one drawing in the British Museum ‘ Seated nude surrounded by drapery ’ once a Rembrandt but now a Raven the attribution to Rembrandt of a whole series of nude studies by the same hand collapsed ’ . |
| 17 | The major obstacle to the restoration of Mantegna 's first documented work has always been a lack of funds , but now a sponsor has come forward in the shape of Francesco Piccolo Brunelli , an engineering contractor of Venetian origin , who lives in Africa . |
| 18 | They have always been relatively free to do what they liked with their collections , within reasonable limits , but now a museum can actually sell a top work of art with financial gain as a prime motive . |
| 19 | But now a feeling grew that , though vengeance had been accomplished by his trial and execution , justice had neither been done nor its cause served . |
| 20 | The invasion was briefly halted at Ancrum Moor near Jedburgh , where a heavy defeat was inflicted on the English by an army under the command of the sixth Earl of Angus , hitherto one of Henry 's supporters but now a bitter opponent because of the desecration of his family 's graves at Melrose abbey . |
| 21 | But now a ten-year study in the West African forest of the Ivory Coast has revealed that chimpanzees there hunt regularly and do so in teams within which there are specialised roles , habitually taken by particular individuals . |
| 22 | One has the odd title of the Boulevard du B.A.B. , revealing that it has taken over the line of the old tramway , the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ; the other , further back from the coast , is the N10 , once the crowded highway along which French motorists hurtled into northern Spain but now a gentler place to drive , the motorway having supplanted it . |
| 23 | But now a narrow passage leading to the single barred window had been constructed down the middle of the room . |
| 24 | But now a problem would arise : since frays and phrase have the same spoken form , how could the patient decide which of these two meanings is correct ? |
| 25 | But now a counter-example . |
| 26 | The hatred was enough , answer to the strange , stifling power that Luke Scott had over her , but now a new suspicion preyed on the edges of her consciousness of it , the shadowy suggestion of a conviction that the hatred had its genesis in something darker and more complex than the realities she was calling to mind . |
| 27 | We still have our two traditional enemies , but now a third looms an enemy in the Labour Party an enemy supporting the now ancient cry of the Tories and the Tory national press , for one man one vote replacing the vote in the trade unions a distancing of the Labour Party from the unions if we let them get away with this , it would mean none of the established political parties represent the interests of ordinary working people the people who I 've always represented , that 's what I think about , just them ! |
| 28 | But now a new picture was forming . |
| 29 | But now a new pattern emerged as the red and brown shapes blocked together to form overlapping triangles all pointing across the room at the double doors opposite . |
| 30 | I do n't know , I do n't know , although I ought to warn you that another way of interpreting the Greek would be , but now a man wishes to be another approached that man . |