Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] now [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward was now looking at the river with great intensity ; he leaned forward a little , as though to see something better . |
| 2 | After his success at Grassington Barratt was now presented with the task of shaping the Coniston Copper Mines into a viable entity . |
| 3 | Nicholson was now venturing into the haunts of the hopefuls and joined in . |
| 4 | The CNAA was now dealing with the new generation of polytechnics but also with Scottish institutions , and institutions as diverse as the Royal Air Force College , Cranwell , and the London Bible College . |
| 5 | The Church in Bernicia and Deira was now brought within the familia of Iona and subject to the authority of the abbot of Iona . |
| 6 | It was difficult to reach an agreed policy and the CDP was now waiting for the CNAA to make the next move' . |
| 7 | Karen was now working during the daytime again , and on the evening of November 6th she passed the scanner on her way out of the laboratory . |
| 8 | The defeat of Labour was greeted with relief by health service managers , but critics said the NHS was now set on the road to privatisation and a two-tier service . |
| 9 | The attempt by the power behind his throne , Warwick — now duke of Northumberland — to secure the succession for his strongly Protestant daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey was a dismal failure ; and England was now ruled by the Catholic Mary Tudor , then in her late thirties , married to Philip of Spain , and therefore potentially capable of establishing a Catholic dynasty which would make Henry VIII , Somerset and Northumberland look like a temporary aberration . |
| 10 | Mildred was now faced with the impossible task of convincing someone that there was an elderly magician in the pond . |
| 11 | Lancaster was now joined by the king 's uncles the Earls of Rent and Norfolk and a group of lords who had lost lands in Scotland , chief amongst whom were Henry Beaumont , Thomas Wake of Liddel and David of Strathbogie , claimant to the earldom of Atholl . |
| 12 | Maurice was now standing outside the door with his back to the room ; one hand rested on the verandah rail and without turning round he said : ‘ Is he dead ? ’ |
| 13 | Jordan was now integrated into the Palestine conflict , with its regime controlling , rather than supporting , the Palestinian people . |
| 14 | She saw with disappointment that Rupert Stonebird was not among the little group that Sophia was now bringing into the room . |
| 15 | My mum and Mrs Quigley were now ritting on the arm of the sofa , their eyes glued to the screen , as Quigley paced around the room . |
| 16 | After some long while of freelancing , Cara was now working for the superior bi-monthly magazine Verity . |
| 17 | With the rise of Lloyd George to become prime minister in 1916 Britain was now ruled by the ‘ Jewalition ’ . |
| 18 | The US was now floundering in the depths of the quicksand and was being dragged down . |
| 19 | George was now dressed in the decent clothes of a tradesman with one or two additions which suggested both his independence and another inheritance . |
| 20 | General Francis was now standing by the bed , leaning on his two walking-sticks . |
| 21 | Central Asia was now regarded as the cradle of humanity , a view endorsed through into the 1930s by H. F. Osborn and other eminent paleontologists . |
| 22 | Brown felt that Nicaea was now descending into the chaos he felt inside himself , that had torn him apart since his wife 's death . |
| 23 | Whitehall was now described as the last Renaissance Court in Europe . |
| 24 | In 1981 NORP was taken over by the Bangladeshi Government , so that the funding that NORP had until then received directly from UNICEF was now channelled through the Government . |