Example sentences of "[was/were] now [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was evidently no absolute labour shortage , if only because the reserve armies of the rural population ( at home and abroad ) were now for the first time advancing en masse upon the industrial labour markets . |
| 2 | The trio — all of whom had at one time endured menial jobs in factories , Stock making gaskets , Aitken fizzy drinks and Waterman manufacturing telephone dials — were now at the helm of the 1980 ’ s most phenomenal Hit Factory . |
| 3 | They were now at the summit and Maggie pulled into the lay-by , positioning the van so that they overlooked Heymouth . |
| 4 | Yanto lay back and reflected with satisfaction that they were now at the end of April , and there would be no big tides worth talking about until August at the earliest . |
| 5 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 6 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 7 | Her family and friends were now at the margins of her new life . |
| 8 | Vegetable vitamin A , carotene , fell by 30 per cent , and both were now at the lower end of the normal range . |
| 9 | He chopped the fruit into pieces ; Bobo and Fifi were now at the bars again and getting quite vocal . |
| 10 | They were now at the most vulnerable stage of the mission . |
| 11 | They were now on the terrace proper . |
| 12 | After the summer of 1921 the Anti-Waste threat receded , but this was largely because Unionist candidates were now on the bandwagon with them , demanding cuts as loudly as anyone . |
| 13 | By the end of August Winchelsey resolved to save his church and the kingdom by allying with the laity who were now on the edge of rebellion . |
| 14 | The Doctor had assured them that they were now on the same level as they had started on , but Francis was n't convinced . |
| 15 | We were now on the cold , open moor . |
| 16 | The beautiful green fields with their thick hedges were behind us , and we were now on the cold , open moor . |
| 17 | We were now on the glossy blacktop that led towards the army laundry , Rosa 's old creche . |
| 18 | His eyes were now on the roof . |
| 19 | They were now into the next lecture period , the last before lunch , and the campus had quietened down again . |
| 20 | But the general inability of the film industry to support and encourage creative adventure was the responsibility of the two major companies , which were now in the hands of former accountants who had not cast off their old ways of thinking , John Davis at Rank and Robert Clark at ABPC . |
| 21 | We were now in the 20th century irrevocably , ‘ part of an age where we must be allowed to take the possible risks of our own knowledge . ’ |
| 22 | Their homes had belonged to them , had been taken away from them and were now in the hands of others . |
| 23 | Of these , the inkwell , the crystal ball , the hourglass , the two named books and two of the others , which had been painstakingly identified as Quixote and Lyell 's Geology , were now in the Stant Collection , where a room had been arranged , Wardian cases and all , to resemble the Manet setting . |
| 24 | Sitting there in the Cathedral Close in the weak spring sunlight , trying to grasp the enormity of the events we had lived through , we gradually came to accept that these things were now in the past , and the war was really over . |
| 25 | We were now in the province of Manitoba , not Ontario . |
| 26 | He and Willie were now in the middle of Exodus and had just begun Grimm 's Fairy Tales . |
| 27 | Performance did not improve — road and air increasingly cut into the rail markets — and the railways were now in the political arena , to be tugged this way and that with every change of government . |
| 28 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 29 | In the following year , 1980/81 , the staff had grown to 53 and two year groups of pupils were now in the school . |
| 30 | If those tests turn out the right way tomorrow — ’ she glanced at her watch , remembering they were now in the early hours of the morning — ‘ or rather tonight , it 'll be worth bringing Parkin in . ’ |