Example sentences of "[was/were] now [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple were now enjoying a regular social life together , which included going to the cinema , walking , and visiting friends . |
| 2 | The Frome Turnpike Trustees have returned to the scene ; the powers vested in them by previous legislation having been insufficient to meet their needs , they were now given a helping hand on 19 June 1797 , with : |
| 3 | Men from the company sector might find the jargon of competitive market solutions more appealing , but most recognised they were now entering a new milieu . |
| 4 | Maybe , Liz reflects ( for this is what she contemplates , through the oval mirror ) , maybe this is why they decided to have such a party , this year , at the end of this decade : as a sign that they had weathered so much , and were now entering a new phase ? |
| 5 | In the course of the evening we had sampled a wide variety of wines , and were now experiencing a woozy sense of disassociation that was like being drunk and hung-over at the same time . |
| 6 | The young earls who attended the Dunstable tournament were now to take a leading part in Edward 's wars , and with a new generation of earls came a new strategy . |
| 7 | Bill and Cy were now standing a few yards from the string . |
| 8 | Both , along with Red Dragon in Cardiff , which he also picked up , were now showing a healthy profit . |
| 9 | This meant that in some cases people were now cultivating a single furrow on a field . |
| 10 | Do n't you see , as far as I knew , I was the first man ever to be displaced in time , though no doubt the timeslips were now making a regular thing of it . |
| 11 | Aunt Louise had the vocal range of the born actress and was now using a deep ( though soft ) organ note . |
| 12 | Henry , as peer of France , was now holding a new duché-pairie in the south-west . |
| 13 | Which face was now turning a pleased smile towards Alice . |
| 14 | It was now blowing a near gale into the harbour , churning the once=calm water into a mass of whitecaps . |
| 15 | Raoul Cédras , was now adopting a neutral stance on Aristide 's restoration , stating that it was still a matter for parliament to decide . |
| 16 | Both of them knew , however , that the scrambler equipment was now emitting a powerful high-frequency signal which would effectively blot out their subsequent conversation from any known form of electronic surveillance . |
| 17 | Then Gabriel went to visit the second brother , who was now running a great farm , with dairies , and butcheries where they sold meat , and tanneries where they sold boots and saddles and all kinds of things made out of leather . |
| 18 | But I was now finding a whole new community I felt more comfortable with . |
| 19 | But he was now fighting a losing battle in support of the ‘ Phlogistic Theory ’ — the idea that the processes of combustion released a mysterious substance named ‘ phlogiston ’ . |
| 20 | China was now formulating a tentative 10-year plan , he said , and would present the outline for the eighth five-year plan ( 1991-95 ) to the party 's seventh plenum originally scheduled for September , but now likely to take place in December . |
| 21 | The funeral was now becoming a public display of private wealth — a statement of status — rather than a dignified journey to the grave , and there were any number of tradesmen in the private sector eager to cater for the demand and , thereby , to profit from it . |
| 22 | Even Maisie , who was now standing a few yards from the window , breathing heavily , seemed to have been paralysed by the sight of him . |