Example sentences of "were now [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Brian Davis points out , the new shed was necessary , as the main mill buildings were now over a century old , and would almost certainly have been unable to cope with the additional weight and vibration from the looms . |
| 2 | We were now at a point of safety , half a mile from the village of El Ouata , so I was allowed access to supplies in the Land Rover . |
| 3 | Despite assuring the Radio Authority last Friday that Spectrum 's troubles were now at an end the station is now threatened with a court case brought by Lit to prove the EGM was illegal . |
| 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 | He chopped the fruit into pieces ; Bobo and Fifi were now at the bars again and getting quite vocal . |
| 6 | They were now at the summit and Maggie pulled into the lay-by , positioning the van so that they overlooked Heymouth . |
| 7 | Her family and friends were now at the margins of her new life . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The polytechnic staff were now on a work to rule , though only at local level — a vote or so at national level having gone against them in spite of a good deal of cooking of the agenda — and she was , as she said , too busy getting a strike fund to so much as think of earning , let alone working ; let alone getting to bed before Bernard had long since fallen asleep . |
| 10 | We were now on the cold , open moor . |
| 11 | The beautiful green fields with their thick hedges were behind us , and we were now on the cold , open moor . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His eyes were now on the roof . |
| 15 | They were now on the terrace proper . |
| 16 | They were now in a position which needed large efforts on their part , as much in renewing and adapting the antislavery argument as in practical action . |
| 17 | The US army were now in a mess . |
| 18 | Sir Nicholas Hunt of Eurotunnel , writing in Annales des Mines , claimed that the Kent Impact Study had done much to reassure local opinion about the Tunnel and that the doubters were now in a minority . |
| 19 | It seemed that both parts of his duchy were now in a state of unrest . |
| 20 | He and Willie were now in the middle of Exodus and had just begun Grimm 's Fairy Tales . |
| 21 | Right now that 's it , were now in the Argos . |
| 22 | In the following year , 1980/81 , the staff had grown to 53 and two year groups of pupils were now in the school . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We were now in the province of Manitoba , not Ontario . |
| 25 | The self-supporting peasant was transformed into a spender of money , for all the things he needed were now in the shops . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Their homes had belonged to them , had been taken away from them and were now in the hands of others . |
| 28 | They had had two large whiskies in the bar downstairs , and they were now near the end of a bottle of Château Margaux . |
| 29 | Only the reading matter — the Peking news , with its latest vituperations against the ‘ gang of four ’ , and its praise of Chairman Hua and the great revolutionary zeal of the Chinese workers , peasants , cadres , etc. warned us that we were now behind the bamboo curtain . |
| 30 | The two were now inside the grille together and Mena Iskander had been given strict instructions to try to secure Miss Postlethwaite a seat from which she could see Zoser clearly and if possible his wife as well . |