Example sentences of "what was now [art] " in BNC.

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1 The commander of the Western Front virtually ordered the Smolgubispolkom to eject school number 9 out of what was now a Volga orphans ' home run by a ‘ revolutionary military committee ’ .
2 Pacified by what was now a familiar hand-out of a packet of sandwiches , some chocolate and an orange , many , like ten-year-old Angela Carpos , were bewildered .
3 A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house .
4 For a few days the president agonized over whether to exercise his veto , but , in the end reluctantly signed what was now a Congressional rather than a presidential bill .
5 Over several centuries it had grown into what was now a natural bond .
6 The bill passed what was now a Whig-dominated Commons , although the Tories did try to introduce an amendment to make the foreigners take the sacrament in accordance with the rites of the Church of England , and when the Tories gained power after the 1710 General Election they repealed the Act .
7 Secretary and spear-headed the drive for new members , still badly needed in what was now the Club 's 50th year of existence .
8 Nirvana did Saturday Night Live , the Rolling Stone front cover , landed the Reading Festival headline slot , the whole shebang , and suddenly ghoulish rumours concerning the health — physical and otherwise — of the frail genius at the centre of what was now the Nirvana Phenomenon started to become commonplace .
9 We returned to spend our last night on the top floor of the now abandoned community house , in what was now the distinctly eerie Rante .
10 An attitude of this kind , backed by all the great weight of Islamic religious conservatism , made diplomatic relations of what was now the normal European kind impossible .
11 with his feet up in the air at th the bottom end of the wardrobe , or what was now the top end .
12 To make matters worse it was generally believed that the spirit of the child would remain in the body of the mother , and so for three days after the actual birth the mother had to sit by a wood and bamboo fire and sweat out the child 's spirit so that the child should be completed and the mother freed from what was now an alien spirit inside her .
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