Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] now [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A strong wind was now blowing and there was a loud crack of thunder . |
| 3 | The martins were now coming and going in numbers over the water . |
| 4 | The arguments used by the radicals against the continued existence of the independent sector were now turned and used against the continued existence of grammar schools and direct grant schools ( which were equally selective and even more predominantly middle-class ) . |
| 5 | While economic competitiveness was now presented as dependent upon the education of the nation 's population , the drift of the Report was not purely towards an economistic " conclusion , " culture " being another of its concerns ( albeit a secondary one ) : " Both in general cultural standards and in competitive intellectual power , vigorous action is needed to avert the danger of a serious relative decline in this country 's standing . " |
| 6 | The girl was now writhing and moaning faintly , barely conscious of what was happening to her . |
| 7 | The regular patterns of sound change discovered by Grimm for German were now investigated and specified more closely , methods of reconstructing earlier unwritten forms of words and constructing models of linguistic ‘ family trees ’ were established , other models of evolutionary change ( like Schmidt 's ‘ wave-theory ’ ) were suggested and the use of analogy — especially grammatical analogy — were developed ; for philology was nothing if not comparative . |
| 8 | Moreover , capitular appointments were now construed as belonging to the bishop 's barony and therefore within the king 's regalian right . |
| 9 | Rank Hovis were now realising that the cup could be going out of their cabinet and straight into Rentokil 's , they decided to keep us playing and on came the warehouse lads , and Rentokil promptly achieved a 6-O victory . |
| 10 | More than 400,000 individuals were now classified as homeless and , in the second quarter of this year , some 33,000 people were placed in bed and breakfast accommodation . |
| 11 | The Belgian group was now flourishing and it was anticipated that future activity for the Swiss and Dutch members would be coordinated by enthusiastic individuals . |
| 12 | Every one of the European allies by whose side she had fought against Nazi Germany for the previous two years was now defeated and occupied . |
| 13 | As Christine de Pisan was to show in the first quarter of the century , the use of artillery for defensive purposes was now regarded as necessary and normal . |
| 14 | Although some of its own experiments were now showing that air pollution in southern England damaged leaves and made them fall early from trees , it could not bring itself to say as much . |
| 15 | Behind Mrs Fitton 's head the rooks were now tossing and tumbling like blown leaves . |
| 16 | New occasions of conflict were now appearing and would eventually break up the long peace , and as this became clearer so did the essentially competitive nature of the European system . |
| 17 | The wren-boys who had gone from house to house on the lorry all day were now scrubbed and combed , playing away cheerfully on raised planks . |
| 18 | For example , the Vietminh were now identified as ‘ forces of communist aggression ’ and for Dean Rusk , Deputy Under Secretary of State , the danger of communist domination of Southeast Asia was a consequence of ‘ aggression ’ ( whatever that meant ) from communist China . |
| 19 | He was a man who had started out in his career simple and full of hope , but his life had been so marked by violent and terrible happenings that his character was now seamed and rocky like a mountain face which had been opened up by movements of the earth , then partly sealed by lava flows . |
| 20 | The question of who had ownership of guns was now forgotten as Gilbert blundered to the basement stairs , closely followed by Rohmer and Duvall . |
| 21 | The evening shadows were now lengthening and the support crew had thoughts of a few points in their heads . |
| 22 | Veloso said that 5,600,000 people were now displaced or affected by the emergency , 1,000,000 more than at the time of the April appeal . |
| 23 | Of the six patients with dysplastic changes in the antral biopsy specimens in 1986 , two did not participate in the follow up examination and the antral specimens of the remaining four patients were now interpreted as being devoid of dysplastic changes but in one case showing intestinal metaplasia . |
| 24 | The character of international relations was now broadening and their essential nature altering . |
| 25 | The ring which had originally been twenty feet across was now little wider than seven or eight feet ; the squatters were now standing and getting in everyone else 's view . |
| 26 | Our journey was now planned as downhill all the way to Vietas , some six days away . |
| 27 | The hard shale was now gone and the flat lake had become a choppy sea of sand and rock . |
| 28 | The ironwork was now fitted and the chassis with its partly constructed body was taken some four hundred yards down the road into Farr 's Friary Lane Works where panels , seats , hoods and fittings were added . |
| 29 | For the female , the whole mechanism of reproduction was now viewed as automatic , a passive and intrinsic part of woman 's nature . |
| 30 | The woman and three children were now laughing and I was pleased about that , as they had looked scared stiff when I entered their house a few moments before . |