Example sentences of "but now [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 2 | They have always been relatively free to do what they liked with their collections , within reasonable limits , but now a museum can actually sell a top work of art with financial gain as a prime motive . |
| 3 | But now a friend of Mrs Hilali living in London says she 's helping coordinate relief work in Turkey . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He tells us that , ‘ with the reassessment of this one drawing in the British Museum ‘ Seated nude surrounded by drapery ’ once a Rembrandt but now a Raven the attribution to Rembrandt of a whole series of nude studies by the same hand collapsed ’ . |
| 6 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |
| 7 | But now a test for the drug is years away , and for those athletes desperate enough to win , only their own sense of honour would stop them using it . |
| 8 | But now a couple have volunteered themselves for Gwendolen to adopt . |
| 9 | But now a donkey brayed and the faint chant of women drifted with wood smoke from the town . |
| 10 | But now a counter-example . |
| 11 | I do n't know , I do n't know , although I ought to warn you that another way of interpreting the Greek would be , but now a man wishes to be another approached that man . |
| 12 | Erm , you could take the as one unit and say , but now a man , wishing to be another , approached that man , and when he found us , for we were not outside the all , he wound himself round us and attached himself to that man who was then each one of us . |
| 13 | But now a developer hopes thousands of tourists will want to pay to stay here . |
| 14 | The major obstacle to the restoration of Mantegna 's first documented work has always been a lack of funds , but now a sponsor has come forward in the shape of Francesco Piccolo Brunelli , an engineering contractor of Venetian origin , who lives in Africa . |
| 15 | But now a problem would arise : since frays and phrase have the same spoken form , how could the patient decide which of these two meanings is correct ? |
| 16 | But now a feeling grew that , though vengeance had been accomplished by his trial and execution , justice had neither been done nor its cause served . |
| 17 | But now a paper in The Lancet ( 341 , 889 ; 1993 appears to some to have thrown a spanner in the works : certainly it has caused a furore of misinterpretation by newspapers and others . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | People have written hundreds of books about dogs , but now a dog 's written a book about people . |
| 20 | But now a face from the past threatened to destroy their happiness … |
| 21 | The path goes on to pass through Binswood , once a deer park but now a Site of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 22 | Mr Burns , 64 , won the Burnbrae seat for the Scottish National Party from Labour last May , but now a by-election will put SNP control of the council at risk . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That was a time for rejoicing and oaths of loyalty ; but now every man was called on to help decide the future of the clan . |
| 26 | Land , the sugar industry , banks , transport and factories and cultural and sports installations built by the state were non-transferable property ( as in the 1976 version ) but now an exception might be made " in cases in which the property is transferred in order to be used in the economic and social development of the country … |
| 27 | This is a set of nodes V , as before , but now an edge is an ordered pair of nodes : G = ( V , E ) where E c VxV |
| 28 | But now an MP is concerned that it 's the thieves who are cashing in by using the sales as clearing houses for stolen property . |
| 29 | For four years political differences between the president and the parties had been muted because of the war , but now the dikes burst . |
| 30 | 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 . |