Example sentences of "[noun] was now [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strong wind was now blowing and there was a loud crack of thunder . |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | The girl was now writhing and moaning faintly , barely conscious of what was happening to her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The question of who had ownership of guns was now forgotten as Gilbert blundered to the basement stairs , closely followed by Rohmer and Duvall . |
| 9 | The character of international relations was now broadening and their essential nature altering . |
| 10 | Our journey was now planned as downhill all the way to Vietas , some six days away . |
| 11 | The hard shale was now gone and the flat lake had become a choppy sea of sand and rock . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For the female , the whole mechanism of reproduction was now viewed as automatic , a passive and intrinsic part of woman 's nature . |
| 14 | Interest in the prophylactic powers of cowpox virus was now growing and in May 1796 Edward Jenner [ q.v. ] began his series of vaccination experiments . |
| 15 | He said that the diocese of Durham wanted him and that the Archbishop of York was now persuaded that they were right . |
| 16 | It sought , as the Collor government had done , to open up the economy to foreign competition ( a new round of import tariff cuts scheduled for Oct. 1 went ahead as scheduled ) and would maintain existing privatization and deregulation programmes , although the involvement of Congress was now expected when the privatization of " strategic " companies was contemplated . |
| 17 | Joyce was now informed that since his problems concerned travel outside Germany , he must first take a train as far as Cologne and go to the consulate there . |
| 18 | She sent a frantic look to where Caspar was now standing and saw that the Melanisms had reached him as well now ; his legs and knees were already covered . |
| 19 | Boniface was looking back to an age in which the privileges of the churches of the Anglo-Saxons had been untouched and inviolate , or so it was thought , and he saw this age as ending — as he tells Aethelbald — in the time of Ceolred , king of the Mercians , and Osred , king of the Northumbrians ( both of whose reigns ended in 716 ) , whom Boniface accuses of behaving as Aethelbald was now doing and as a consequence of which they both perished miserably . |
| 20 | A bishopric was not re-created at Ripon ( perhaps because a papal privilege was now recognized as protecting the monastery there ) , but Wilfrid was never restored to York during Aldfrith 's reign . |
| 21 | Martha 's face was now flushed and she looked on the verge of tears . |
| 22 | Jones mailed all the details to Pons as the detector was now working and beginning to gather the data that would be the basis of the Brigham Young University-Rafelski paper . |
| 23 | Mr Silviu Brucan , a leading member of the front , was reported as saying yesterday that the Communist Party was now finished and had played no part in the revolution — despite increasing complaints , particularly from students at the centre of the uprising , that most of those moving into power were party members . |