Example sentences of "[noun] now [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battle now shifted to parliament , where the second reading was carried by a huge majority on 22 May ; many Unionists spoke against the Bill , but few could bring themselves to oppose it in principle , and so Sanders could mobilize only forty MPs to go with him into the No lobby . |
| 2 | The left wing advanced a short distance beyond the Steenbeek rivulet and Langemarck , a village now reduced to rubble . |
| 3 | WE CERTAINLY ca n't take the Lords for granted , ’ says an adviser to John Major , thinking gloomily of the battered Maastricht bill now poised to stagger , under the baleful glare of Lady Thatcher and Lord Tebbit , through the Upper House . |
| 4 | Farm now linked to steam railway ! |
| 5 | The Jacobites now threatened to bombard Carlisle if the castle did not surrender , causing the remaining militia , on 15 November , to desert , leaving Durand with only the ‘ invalids ’ to form the garrison , while the civil authorities , horrified at the threat to the town , seem to have encouraged him to capitulate . |