Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] now [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that day , Mrs Knelle declared that she 'd take me for a drive , to see Ashford Castle , a local stately home that was now an hotel . |
| 2 | Mrs MacDonald was a Calgarian by birth , and her husband had been moved north by his firm to run the huge refinery that was now the pride of Tollemarche . |
| 3 | She was already getting fed up with the hospital , and could n't wait to take her twin boys back to the large nursery waiting for them upstairs in the medieval castle that was now the family home . |
| 4 | Like the ‘ Führer myth ’ , they had outlived their purpose even before the end of the Third Reich and were now a liability . |
| 5 | There was significant symbolic value attached to the talks as the first meeting in 30 years between Nelson Mandela , the ANC deputy president , and Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi , leader of Inkatha , who had once been fellow students at university , and were now the country 's two most influential black leaders . |
| 6 | At the start of the war he had taken up his old rank of captain and was now a major in the King 's African Rifles . |
| 7 | She had joined the Met with three A levels and a huge number of O levels as an eighteen-year-old , then worked her way over into the CID , and was now a Detective Sergeant and ready to move up , having passed the exams for Inspector . |
| 8 | His stay at home coincided with a visit from the Reverend Jones of Isleworth , who had kept in touch and was now a friend of the family . |
| 9 | She had been a nuisance , a threat , a torment and was now a friend . |
| 10 | This I discussed at once with my Scoutmaster , who had served as an officer in the Gordons during the war and was now a schoolmaster . |
| 11 | Alan Duffy had overheard Mr Simmons and Miss Craven talking about Frankie 's father , who was a real-life American who had been in the Army and the merchant navy and was now a farmer who posed at the School of Art and played guitar in a popular local dance-band . |
| 12 | I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done . |
| 13 | Despite confinement to a wheelchair , Rex Cunningham had evidently prospered and was now the proprietor of a country house hotel-cum-restaurant in Surrey . |
| 14 | Mrs Dyer was tiny ; her head sat on her spine like a sunflower on its stalk ; and her hair had passed through its albid phase and was now the colour of a Gitaned forefinger . |
| 15 | He had given up his three stripes to join the Commandos and was now the father of two children , a boy and a girl , his wife living with her parents in Perth . |
| 16 | An ambitious Dane , Leif Haraldsen had been attracted to the Algarve by its business potential and the opportunity for water sports , and was now the owner of a thriving kitchen-installation company . |
| 17 | The town had suffered from the worst of industrial enterprise and was now the recipient of a major twenty-million-pound clean-up . |
| 18 | To judge by the piles of broken stone , chunks of gargoyle , carved oak , black-brown and shot with wormholes , the upper chamber must once have been a workshop but was now a dump for unwanted Cathedral tat . |
| 19 | There was a cotton shirt that had once been cream-coloured , but was now a sodden , muddy grey . |
| 20 | Ray Shepherd was a tall man with a craggy , lined face that looked as if it had once been weathered but was now the colour of chalk . |