Example sentences of "but now [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 But now a friend of Mrs Hilali living in London says she 's helping coordinate relief work in Turkey .
2 Our group of four included the one man in the party , a 35-year-old barrister , a girl of 30-something , myself , and Helen , our guide — once a guest but now a member of the staff .
3 Annabel Croft , once the British No 1 but now a star of stage and the small screen , cringed at the quality of her performance in the opening round of the Volkswagen National Championships at Telford yesterday .
4 The path goes on to pass through Binswood , once a deer park but now a Site of Special Scientific Interest .
5 But now a lot of work is being carried out in this area ; in future the use of biological agents for control will be far more widespread and the use of chemicals reduced even further . ’
6 Just a few yards away , people using the Matson dry ski slope have no idea of the tragedy that took place more than 50 years ago , but now a group of aviation enthusiasts aim to change all that .
7 This new construction can be cultured and develops quite a nice tooth , but now the sheet of cells that would have become the skin of the foot is induced to make enamel .
8 But now the rest of the world is starting to believe it too …
9 Reports say they will bid £8 million to buy out Swales , chairman for 20 years but now the subject of a concerted hate campaign by supporters following the sacking of manager Peter Reid .
10 He has always majored , like Pisa 's tower , in eccentricity , but now the complexity of the stories and some of the directorial quirks are becoming self-defeating .
11 I had gained much by marrying Karen , but now the thought of all I had lost rose up to overwhelm me .
12 In the past , fleas used to be a problem only during the warmer months of the year in temperate areas , but now the advent of central heating has enabled these parasites to plague dogs and their owners for much of the year .
13 Not only are they having to come to terms with the latest three per cent rise in fares and the implications of rail privatisation , but now the spectre of VAT hangs over them as well .
14 But now the passage of the years was doing it for him .
15 Rostov sorted through the physical descriptions which Burun had supplied of the principal members of the court and knew that he was addressing Va'na Khatun , once a slave and concubine , but now the wife of Arjun and grandmother to the wife of Burun 's own son Jotan .
16 But now the infrastructure of pipelines and motorways is used more often .
17 She wanted to be left alone , but now the tedium of her resolutely normal life is plastered across 190 pages .
18 She was accustomed to her parents ' absences and proud to endure them as a member of a sailor 's family should , without complaint , but now the absence of her mother and father disturbed her .
19 But now the power of the Lords had been cut down by an Act of Parliament , and they could only postpone the enactment of the Home Rule Bill for two years .
20 Charles Dudgeon , operations director at the Stevenage plant said : ‘ Following the acquisition many changes were introduced and performance suffered as the market reacted with apprehension to the unknown but now the wisdom of the shake-up is evident . ’
21 Most people think of maps as hand-drawn paper-and-ink products , but now the production of maps by computer , either plotted on paper or drawn in the form of images on a graphics screen , is becoming commonplace .
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