Example sentences of "was now [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was now no doubt about murderous intention on someone 's part and the certainty made me perversely angry , stimulating renewed strength and a good deal of bloody-mindedness . |
| 2 | With England discredited , the Protestants were in a much weaker position ; from Mary of Guise 's point of view , there was now no particular reason to suppose that they would upset the old order . |
| 3 | There was now no obvious ally to whom Scottish Protestants could look . |
| 4 | Describing Sellafield as ‘ a byword for the dirty end of the industry ’ , it echoed the arguments of environmental groups that there was now no national economic justification for its operation . |
| 5 | As there was now no room left for the driver 's game , he suddenly accelerated past the man and we were again moving down the street at forty miles an hour . |
| 6 | The earliest known inhabitant of my village , who had tilled its fields , fished its river , delighted at the sunshine and huddled around his smoking fire in the winter damp , who shared all our human emotions , love , hate , joy , sorrow and pain was now no more than a box of prehistoric Crunchie bars dried almost to dust . |
| 7 | There was now no way in which Stephen could learn of her indiscretion . |
| 8 | Not only did the king have a spare hour for what turned out to be an excellent interview in the palace gardens , but on learning that there was now no plane to take us home until Monday , laid on two helicopters to take us all on a Sunday outing to Petra ( the ‘ rose red city half as old as time ’ ) , then on to Aqaba on the Red Sea for lunch and a swim , and home across the desert and the black tents of the Bedouins in the evening . |
| 9 | There was now no difference in their height although Harry was twenty-one and Joe sixteen . |
| 10 | There was now no need to hurry . |
| 11 | On the left side the leaf rose a little , gently swaying from its own tensions , for there was now no breath of wind . |
| 12 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |
| 13 | Yes , she said , there had just been a birth in the house , but the family had gone to stay with cousins in Haryana ; there was now no one at home . |
| 14 | The senior American , and the New Zealander , were right-wingers of a purity I 'd thought extinct , little imagining that the vogue for radical chic — which had been the orthodoxy of the day in Toronto — was now no more than the memory of an ebb tide . |
| 15 | There was now no doubt that an ambassador and his suite had an absolute right to the free practice of their religion , even though it differed from that established in the country where they were stationed . |
| 16 | To the relief of leader Paddy Ashdown , Liverpool Mossley Hill MP , David Alton , said yesterday there was now no obstacle to his standing again at the next General Election . |
| 17 | To the relief of Paddy Ashdown , Liverpool Mossley Hill MP David Alton said yesterday there was now no obstacle to his standing again at the next general election . |
| 18 | Gianni and Ursula leapt on just as the doors were closing , but Monique , who was now a few yards behind them and whose movements were hampered anyway by her arthritis , was left standing there as the train moved out . |
| 19 | Ours was now a multiple reality and our structural ambivalence can be illustrated by one example when one of the squad created a blazer badge in heraldic style ( although we could never have been seen in a blazer at this time when faded denim was the order of the day ) . |
| 20 | Further , Israel was now a reality — ‘ next year in Jerusalem ’ for millions had been fulfilled ; but the reaction of the Arab world was very hostile — Suez was but months away , and glimmerings of its possibility ( and worse ) were evident . |
| 21 | For locomotives there was now a livelier three-tone grey colour scheme with sub-sector logos and depot badges . |
| 22 | Work was now a day 's climbing , as well as a sea crossing away and all but forgotten . |
| 23 | The war was now a long distance away ; everything was quiet , except for a very faint rumble of artillery in the distance , in the direction of the River Seine . |
| 24 | The commander of the Western Front virtually ordered the Smolgubispolkom to eject school number 9 out of what was now a Volga orphans ' home run by a ‘ revolutionary military committee ’ . |
| 25 | A War Cabinet , consisting of Mrs Thatcher , Whitelaw , Pym , Nott , and Cecil Parkinson , assisted by civil servants such as Sir Robert Armstrong , Sir Anthony Acland , and Sir Frank Cooper , along with Admiral Sir Terence Lewin of the Chiefs of Staff , directed operations , At this kind of uncomplicated executive command , the Prime Minister excelled : her instinct for isolated decision-making was now a strength , not a weakness . |
| 26 | Once the happy city of the Beatles and ‘ pop ’ permissiveness , home of the most consistently successful football team in the land , Liverpool was now a visibly decaying city . |
| 27 | He was now a young Anglo-Catholic who acquired the Catholic sense of divine rights in the Church which no State can touch . |
| 28 | Ramsey was now a channel for Barthian influence into England . |
| 29 | Marsh , the professor of Old Testament , had been a superlative teacher but his health was gone and he was now a passenger . |
| 30 | But she , who had run fifteen thousand miles to find her freedom , she who had driven Jim out of the house rather than wash his dirty teacups , was now a slave to someone who never washed their cups , who was never interested in her ideas , who never wanted to talk , hear , understand , sympathise , who hurt one 's body as no one had ever hurt it before and who chained one forever to mountains , not just of washing-up , but of washing itself . |