Example sentences of "now [vb past] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were a species of organizational rhetoric ( now menaced by public access to the monopoly of enforcement ) , embodying compromise between conflicting values and recognition of the vagaries of the environment to be controlled . |
| 2 | He asked permission to evacuate the whole of the Woevre Plain , now menaced by the rapid German advance on the Meuse Highlands . |
| 3 | Plus another standard gauge line — now mothballed by BR and currently the subject of the North Staffordshire Railway 's Churnet Valley campaigns . |
| 4 | On the political right the fourth estate busied itself in a revived version of the old Chamberlain protectionist pipedream of Empire Unity , as now expounded by the press lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook . |
| 5 | The urban disorders of the 1980s are the most explicit index of the deep hostility now felt by many inner-city residents towards the police , and of the problems of policing the inner city . |
| 6 | Similar attitudes of troops of occupation of all ages and in all places , from South America to India , help us understand the revulsion now felt by many Britons , some of whom may have been sympathetic to Rome and hopeful of recognition of their natural rights and dignity . |
| 7 | Xanthe was still sitting across from Mrs Young , now rejoined by her husband . |
| 8 | The differential status of men and women in confirming masculine sexuality is neatly demonstrated at the climax of the play , the arranged duel between Alvarez and Vitelli ( seconded , respectively , by Lucio , now masculinized by falling in love , and Lamorall ) . |
| 9 | The low-lying meadows , the Whistles , now skirted by Victoria Avenue , have often been flooded in winter . |
| 10 | I now sat by her bedside and worked out ratios . |