Example sentences of "[vb pp] now [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferris was on the verge of signing for Linfield last season but has decided now to pledge his immediate future to the Lurgan club , who are expected to announced a major kit sponsorship shortly . |
| 2 | We are obliged now to write |
| 3 | How can a soldier , haggard from the hell of the trenches , who was shot for falling asleep at his post be said now to have been treated fairly ? |
| 4 | The efforts being made now to change these attitudes are seeking to reverse a trend which persisted for most of this century endorsed by official government attitudes to the care of the handicapped . |
| 5 | The term heterotactic is used now to define a triad which is neither isotatic nor syndiotactic . |
| 6 | The word means ‘ bringing in ’ or ‘ bringing about ’ ( a bit like introduction ) , but it 's used now to mean a carefully structured programme where new staff can learn about their jobs . |
| 7 | In other words , she is someone who might have difficulty with spelling as she grows , but could be helped now to become a competent speller . |
| 8 | He 's promised now to take her swimming . ’ |
| 9 | In much the same way , a good dose of inflation is needed now to facilitate the adjustment to higher taxes . |
| 10 | A magnanimous gesture from the founders of the Open Software Foundation is needed now to heal any lingering breeches in the industry . |
| 11 | A senior official from the Forestry Office has acknowledged that " official decisions are needed now to address the problems that will emerge in 20 years " . |
| 12 | This will also explain why transfer values will go up if interest rates go down , as more has to be invested now to produce the same sum at retirement date . |
| 13 | If the answer to the pursuer 's case is that the fault for the accident rests wholly or partly with someone else , consideration should be given now to service of a Third Party Notice by which that other party blamed can be brought into the action . |
| 14 | These steeply-inclined belts or zones of earthquake sites are known now to exist all round the Pacific ; they are called Benioff zones , after their discoverer , the seismologist Hugo Benioff . |
| 15 | We got it there or thereabouts for sales executives right ? the area development exec job but we did n't get it right we were two grand adrift quite clearly demonstrable evidence that we were two grand adrift on that pay and I 've asked now to agree to upping the pay level and if he does we might get some decent people and then we worry about the ramifications of that afterwards , yeah ? |
| 16 | My closest friend in the fifth form , Mandy , failed most of her O levels , and has left now to start work . |
| 17 | ‘ Alan is going to be left now to rehabilitate . |
| 18 | Statements such as , ‘ I did n't see it previously ’ ; ‘ I 've just noticed something new ’ ; I can see all sorts of things of interest which I had n't seen before' ; ‘ I was n't interested in that before … suddenly it has a very significant part to play ’ ; ‘ the painting is actually changing for me ’ ; ‘ I 'm just discovering it ’ ; ‘ I 've started now to appreciate … ‘ , abounded . |
| 19 | Yeah but , I mean yo , people are allowed now to put their own in are n't they ? |
| 20 | It was once a dairy farm but with the introduction of milk quotas only a few cows are kept now to provide milk , cheese , cream and yogurt . |
| 21 | Faded now to dirty cream , and thrust down in a crumpled ball to the base of the chest — but still instantly known . |
| 22 | Newton , who celebrated by clubbing in London 's West End , has played in every position for Chelsea — including goalkeeper for part of a reserve game — and Porterfield must be tempted now to leave him at the front for the next test against Middlesbrough . |
| 23 | She had planned now to tell him that he was the one who was thick ; that he had fallen into her trap ; that she , Gazzer , and Bella knew all about him and what he had done . |
| 24 | This must extend Taylor 's ( 1982 ) findings of the suspicion by black defendants of magistrates courts , being extended now to crown courts . |
| 25 | She was determined now to do as much of it out of their own resources as possible . |
| 26 | And so whilst Ruth and Naomi are resting and waiting back home Boaz is acting , and he sought out this man , he 's determined now to see that Ruth and Naomi receive all that is there 's by right . |
| 27 | Wherever Heather 's photographs led , he was determined now to follow . |
| 28 | Somebody is minded now to introduce sponsored broadcasting in this country " . |
| 29 | They still do , but I 've learnt now to keep them in my lap so that the sweat coming off the hands soaks into the trousers . |