Example sentences of "[n mass] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But yarraman also loses its suffix and the verb yuu now gains the suffix -ndi to indicate that yarraman is still a location ( the man is still on the horse ) . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , 68% of owner-directors said that their financial or material rewards had not increased over the past 12 months ; 65% now work over 50 hours a week , 38% have considered disposal over the past year , and over half have injected extra funds . |
| 3 | The world-wide flow of data now underlies the phenomenon of multinational companies and allows rapid and comprehensive factual updating for all the players in the world economic game . |
| 4 | These figures are published annually and are compiled from data now supplied by Nuclear Electric blah blah blah blah blah . |
| 5 | Finished in the temperate sea paint scheme similar to the Royal Navy Historic Flight 's LS326 , Bob 's aircraft now becomes the second airworthy Swordfish in the world . |
| 6 | Most poor folk now moved only short distances away from ‘ their ’ parish . |
| 7 | As demand grew prices rose , what had cost £5 now cost £10 . |
| 8 | At the slightest movement outside the tank the fish now whizz around , bumping into the glass and even jumping out of the tank . |
| 9 | I started regular water changes , and one fish now eats a little , but the other one spits it out . |
| 10 | Only three kinds of fish now exist in the lake , compared to 38 in the 1970s . |
| 11 | However , mail-shots are gaining in popularity and 53 percent now consider them as either their first or second most effective marketing technique . |
| 12 | This has resulted in a temporary drop in the average weight of fish , as the trout population increases , and St John 's trout now average approximately 10oz . |
| 13 | Welsh Black cattle and sheep now graze where bracken covered the mountain . |
| 14 | The deeply moated site of the former manor house marks the edge of the old settlement ; sheep now graze peacefully over the remains of the village and over the ridge and furrow patterns of what were once the communal arable fields . |
| 15 | The final MB now consists of three integrated papers : multiple choice questions , slides with short answers , and a paper consisting of patient management problems encompassing all disciplines . |
| 16 | Moreover , had he accepted an offer from the National Gallery , Mr Walsh would have abandoned the biggest museum construction project in the world , the $1 billion headquarters now beginning to rise on the Getty 's oceanside compound ( The Art Newspaper No. 12 , November 1991 , p. 4 ) . |
| 17 | The London headquarters now moved to stylish new premises at 143 , Charing Cross Road . |
| 18 | Those patients with ST segment depression would be people now regarded as having non-Q wave infarction . |
| 19 | Parties , in many respects , were no longer taken seriously by the voters ; many more people now disavowed parties altogether and declared themselves to be independents . |
| 20 | First , quite a lot of people now make money from Superfund . |
| 21 | How many people now remember his humiliation as chancellor of the Exchequer , turning back on a trip to Heathrow en route for a meeting of the International Monetary Fund in order that he could draft an application for a loan from the same organisation , then appearing in the Blackpool bear garden to be publicly abused ? |
| 22 | Many people now use their cars to go shopping , and buy a whole week 's supplies — this has taken trade away from the small local shop |
| 23 | ‘ Most people now use their PEP money to buy unit or investment trusts but there are thousands to choose from . |
| 24 | ‘ Some people now fear living more than dying because they dread becoming passive prisoners of technology , ’ said Prof Jennett . |
| 25 | I mean I should imagine there are so many people now looking for jobs |
| 26 | Certainly his resignation ensures that he will be in the clear when the economic roof falls in — an event which many people now regard as virtually inevitable . |
| 27 | All these people now regard themselves as having a moral claim to land inside Israel — which is one reason , of course , why the PLO was for so long loath to consider a Palestinian nation outside the boundaries of the Jewish state . |
| 28 | But as numerous commentators have observed , and opinion polls bear out , most people now regard unemployment as a fact of life to be endured , almost as beyond politics as the weather . |
| 29 | Many people now regard the sending of flowers to a funeral as an inexcusable waste of money , arguing that since they can not possibly help the deceased , it is better to help the living . |
| 30 | More people now die of pesticide poisoning in Sri Lanka than from certain important diseases , including malaria . |