Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] now [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the repatriations of the Yugoslavs should continue ; the methods being used to carry them out were found to be " satisfactory " as an alternative to the " use of force " , and this was now a matter of full agreement between Eighth Army and AFHQ . |
| 2 | But this was now an outdated view , or on the verge of being so . |
| 3 | One veteran observer of the New York museum scene summarised the insular society 's predicament : ‘ During the 60s , 70s and 80s when all other institutions realised that there was no way that they could build up an endowment without catering to the masses and without appealing to the federal government , museums went with cap in hand ; they saw this was now the game . |
| 4 | He told George Seferis that , in his prose writings , the need for honesty and clarity entailed the kind of elaborate elucidation which audiences found dull ; but this was now the manner that Eliot adopted , and it is possible to see the equivocations and hesitations of his later prose work as aspects of what was essentially a Socratic method of inquiry rather than an expression of caution or indecision . |
| 5 | This was now the prayer of all British colonial administrators : ‘ peace in our time ’ . |
| 6 | The latter was now a veritable ghost town with its derelict buildings holding up false-front facades in the fashion of Hollywood sets . |
| 7 | on doctor 's orders as much as anything else , he restricted his evening engagements to the Tuesday and Thursday of each week ( those were now the evenings when his housekeeper was " off , ) . |
| 8 | With a new rabbit and a short-haired piebald guinea pig in a box , Victoria arrived at a once-grand Queen Anne house in Wiltshire that was now a school devoted to raising the daughters of the gentry . |
| 9 | Later , back up the shore beside their picnic blanket , beside Karen 's sun dress that was now a mass of creeping black , the girls lay on their stomachs and talked again of Parr , desultorily . |