Example sentences of "be now [adv prt] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Air lifts were now out of the question , but trains were still a practical proposition — as Chadwick discovered when he came to deal with the Nazi official in charge of emigration . |
| 2 | The former English national champion is now out of the singles competition but has reached the semi-finals of the doubles . |
| 3 | The former English national champion is now out of the singles competition but has reached the semi-finals of the doubles . |
| 4 | The answer is partly that the vote in Rhineland-Palatinate , which lies just below Bonn , is now out of the way ; partly that he may regain some of his lost esteem in eastern Germany , where voters are heavily for Berlin ; but not least that Mr Kohl has almost always come back fighting after getting a slap in the face . |
| 5 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 6 | The short pole was now out of the question so it was out on the long pole . |
| 7 | Flying back from Algeria , he confided to Louis Terrenoire that the idea of finding a non-FLN third force with whom to strike a deal was now out of the question . |
| 8 | Moreover , Russia was now out of the war and German divisions were being moved rapidly by train from the east to the Western Front . |