Example sentences of "[noun sg] now [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
| 2 | Tensions submerged in the earlier campaign now came to the fore and led more and more to a coercive policy of sexual regulation , especially of working-class prostitutes . |
| 3 | It was this force which the Collector now threw into the engagement , though he had to shout the order more than once as their leader , Judge Adams , was rather deaf . |
| 4 | An action in rem now lay against the trustee , where earlier law had allowed only an action in personam . |
| 5 | The onus now lay upon the architect to come up with new designs and new ideas with which to counter the rapidly growing effectiveness of artillery aided , from about 1430 , by the reversion to the use of cast-iron shot which , although more expensive than stone shot , did not shatter on impact , could be made more uniformly in greater quantities ( the making of stone shot was , to say the least , laborious ) and in smaller calibre , thereby increasing efficiency by reducing the need for very large and unwieldy cannon . |
| 6 | Estlin now withdrew from the BFASS , demonstrating for one last time his use as a barometer of sentiment in intra-reform relations . |
| 7 | When the antenna now clipped to the rain-gutter above the passenger-door heard the blip emitted from the D/F transmitter in Quinn 's attaché case , a line would race out from the glowing dot to the perimeter of the screen . |
| 8 | He prodded the saucer , where the coin now lay in a swirl of green colour . |
| 9 | All responsibility now lay with the West . |
| 10 | As a result of several sessions of classroom observation , homework now emerged as a source of dissatisfaction to the Senior Management Team , in terms both of the amount done and marked , and its quality and scope . |
| 11 | Chappell & Co. now appealed to the House of Lords . |
| 12 | Yet the hand touching the breast now seemed like a communication , as of one who , coming to an appointed place , says humbly , here I am . |
| 13 | The remaining lump now consisted of the crankcase , blacks , heads , inlet manifolds and fuel trunk . |
| 14 | Martin O'Neill , the party 's defence spokesman , said the road to arms control now lay through the process of negotiation . |
| 15 | Our day out to the beach now seemed like a dream . |
| 16 | Apocalypse Now appeared at a time when the political climate in America was shifting to the right , resulting in Reagan 's victory in the 1980 presidential elections . |
| 17 | For her land now lay underneath a plantation of banana trees a few hundred yards down the road from a bricked-up mosque . |
| 18 | The main threat now came from the north and west : from the Picts and their allies the Irish , with whom Aldfrith [ q.v . ] , |
| 19 | A spokesman for Aberdeen police confirmed that Andrew 's mother Mary visiting relatives in Canada at the time of his death now knew about the tragedy . |
| 20 | Her very longevity in office now appeared as a handicap to a party which needed to look forward to the 1990s not back to the battles of the 1980s . |