Example sentences of "[noun prp] was now [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States was now the leading foreign oil power in the Middle East . |
| 2 | Ramsey was now a channel for Barthian influence into England . |
| 3 | Home for Ken was now the Park West block of flats off the Edgware Road , a far more posh environment than any he had been used to up to then . |
| 4 | Brunei was now the sole ASEAN member without formal diplomatic ties with China . |
| 5 | Jesus of Nazareth was now the prism through which the various shafts of light in the Old Testament about the Spirit became luminous and in focus to them . |
| 6 | So Karen was now an official on the factory 's Union Committee . |
| 7 | Ruth was now a sentient being , that could visit the lavatory alone , wash , feed and clothe itself , amuse itself without recourse to her . |
| 8 | So Simon was now an only son , an eldest son , and he stood to inherit in Somerset as well . |
| 9 | The Americans turned the Islands into a plantation and Honolulu was now the business centre of the Pacific . |
| 10 | Everybody in Northern Ireland was now a potential victim , particularly politicians and construction workers . |
| 11 | The Lancaster was now the mainstay of Bomber Command , each aircraft delivering a bombload that would have needed four aircraft of 1940 vintage to have lifted it . |
| 12 | That gentility had , however , suffered a sea-change , for Celtic Crescent was now the centre of Cork 's ‘ Jewtown ’ . |
| 13 | Once a medieval city of magnificent palaces , gardens and bazaars , Silves was now a provincial backwater ; with only a Moorish fortress and twelfth-century cathedral to remind visitors of its former greatness . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ben Jonson was now the playwright for the court of King James . |
| 16 | China was now a nuclear power and , Nixon maintained , it was essential that she be brought into the " community of nations " . |
| 17 | Mwafrika was now a commercial rather than political paper . |
| 18 | Oliver was now a strong and healthy boy , and very fond of Rose and Mrs Maylie — as they were of him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A former supporter of the Najibullah regime who had switched sides , Dostam was now a mainstay of the mujaheddin government . |
| 21 | Mr Bumble was now a married man , and not a happy one . |
| 22 | Peter was now a colleague of Bernard 's at the poly . |
| 23 | If it was n't for the fact that Michael Ryan was now a force to be reckoned with , the other families would have tried to force them out . |
| 24 | Sheisshaus was now a quadruple amputee , victim of Würstchen 's over-enthusiasm in trying to apply a Band-Aid . |
| 25 | Her adopted son Ra-Moses was now a junior officer in the Army of the Northern Frontier . |
| 26 | In theory , at least , Japan was now the equal of the Western powers . |
| 27 | For many Conservative MPs the message seemed all too clear : Mrs Thatcher was now an electoral liability and had to be replaced before the next election . |
| 28 | At a press conference in Sofia on Feb. 25 John Wilton , the leader of a World Bank delegation , pointed out that Bulgaria was now the only east European country without a privatization law . |
| 29 | The projected marriage between Matilda and Count Alan Rufus was now a dead letter . |
| 30 | They also led to some strategic thinking : it was clear that Prussia was now the dominant land power in Europe , and that the defences of Britain were by no means impressive — much of the army was always away in the colonies , and the navy on distant stations . |