Example sentences of "[was/were] now [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 5000 former members of the BNA were now enlisted in the regular army , but this left thousands more outside , restless and discontented . |
| 2 | The mountains and lakes were now revered as a source of ‘ uplift ’ . |
| 3 | The brain had enlarged later in order to exploit the tool-making capacities of hands that were now freed from the task of locomotion . |
| 4 | Meanings and beliefs had not become irrelevant , but the coherence and falsity of racist ideas were now ascribed to the function they serve in legitimating social practices that reinforce an unequal distribution of power between groups differentiated in racial and/or ethnic terms ( see , for example , Troyna and Carrington , 1990 , p. 56 ) . |
| 5 | Her eyes were now riveted on the ruler in the nun 's hand . |
| 6 | The traditional political " families " still vied with each other in pursuance of their particular objectives ; but the old clans of Catholics , monarchists and Falangists were now joined by a new breed of apolitical technocrat and a new kind of Falangist . |
| 7 | The Western powers and Japan , who had long been attempting to secure rights and interests in China , were now faced with a series of regimes too weak to resist some of their demands , or to see that any concessions were adhered to . |
| 8 | The Germans were now faced with an insoluble strategic problem , perceived but not resolved by von Schlieffen : they had insufficient strength to wheel west of Paris and subdue it . |
| 9 | In place of the comfortable doctrine of sedimentation keeping pace with subsidence , we were now faced with the notion of empty troughs forming in the sea floor , with only occasional rushes of sediment to fill them . |
| 10 | The lawless janissaries and their local Turkish supporters were now appeased at the expense of the Christian peasants . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | These were now crystallized in an expanded discourse on male and female sexuality . |
| 13 | Salaries were now arranged in a more systematic hierarchy and paid more regularly than in the past . |
| 14 | What happened after 1933 is that sociological and realistic films were now made in a very different Hollywood and national context . |
| 15 | She wondered what had been the use of all that trying to get clean on the train if they were now lost in a place where nobody would ever find them , not even when something happened and they disappeared for ever . |
| 16 | Their heads had been eased into the yoke , and they were now locked into the system . |
| 17 | At the Trout Inn , the frogmen were now seated before a blazing log-fire in the bar . |
| 18 | The ex-London United cars which had been working on the Croydon — Mitcham route were now transferred to the Sutton route , to work alongside the J type cars ( 1s-16s ) , four of which were withdrawn and sent to Brixton Hill . |
| 19 | Their movement was direct and purposeful , quite unlike the earlier , haphazard approach of those who were now gathered in the ditch . |
| 20 | The questioners were now placed in the same difficulty as Jesus had been in . |
| 21 | Both the Soviet Union and the United States were now engaged in an open competition . |
| 22 | The EP and LEA were now presented with a fait accompli . |
| 23 | Coaches and managers of the finalists were now gripped with the tension of the approaching moment of truth , like expectant fathers at the birth , now impotent , their work done . |
| 24 | Then , only two months ago , Peter Brooke himself announced that they were to have no purchase grants as such , but that these were now merged with the vote which pays for running expenses . |
| 25 | Government efforts were now concentrated on the balance of payments and its chosen instrument was an export drive which , in many respects , was a planning exercise . |
| 26 | The fact that more than 70,000 men were now concentrated on the western flank of Madrid ( compared to 14,000 deployed in October ) bore witness to Nationalist determination to take the capital . |
| 27 | A major factor was that the two famous left-wing union leaders , both to some degree poachers turned gamekeepers , Hugh Scanlon and Jack Jones , were now removed from the scene through retirement . |
| 28 | Sue Sadler of CPC explained that clothes for four to 16-year-olds were now needed for the bank along with good quality toys and nursery items such as stair gates , pushchairs , cots and prams etc . |
| 29 | The operations of the Chamber officials and other financial officers were now supervised by the Office of General Surveyors , a committee of the royal Council acting as a board of audit . |
| 30 | Both were now overshadowed by the superior power of Russia , a fact which was driven home by the general lack of success of the Swedish fleet in the war of 1788–90 with her great eastern neighbour . |