Example sentences of "now [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 2 | But he knew why the moment he entered the old schoolroom , for after allowing him to pass her she closed the door and stood with her back to it , her pale face , now tinged to a deep red , thrust out towards him as she cried , ‘ Think you 're smart , do n't you ? |
| 3 | But unfortunately it has fallen face down and Shelley 's " shattered visage " is now pressed to the " lone and level sands " . |
| 4 | It should be a mounting series of difficulties , only here the difficulties are not major confrontations but small incidents such as a foot caught in a briar root or a gate that has always been open now proving to be locked . |
| 5 | But modern culture is now proving to be vulnerable on two counts , one social , one intellectual . |
| 6 | The original cause of disaffiliation , ILP control over its parliamentary group , was now proving to be disruptive to the Party . |
| 7 | Her wrists were by now fastened to the post , and she was helpless . |
| 8 | 'Twill be well because he is not the real thing , never could be , and is not even now presuming to be ; but conversely , 'twill be well because the imitation , the travesty , of the real thing can also usurp it and to all intents and purposes become it . |
| 9 | They make good employees for ‘ us ’ : a transfer has now occurred , for the pronoun now refers to commercial enterprises , financed by the World Bank . |
| 10 | It now refers to anything disappointing . |
| 11 | ‘ Lafayette ’ may have been the name of a French noble woman , but it now refers to a brand new and stunning range of carpets launched by Stoddard Templeton . |
| 12 | This element of the second stanza creates a sensation that Tithonus now refers to himself as a completely different man to what he was in his youth as it was such a long time ago . |
| 13 | This was known as ‘ the Inspectors ’ Course , and is now referred to as the ‘ Junior Command Course ’ . |
| 14 | The headmistress , who had always ridiculed her for being bad at games , now referred to her as ‘ our best pupil ’ and gave her a set of Shakespeare , duly inscribed . |
| 15 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
| 16 | The General Household Survey ( GHS ) defines a one-parent family as ‘ one parent with their never married dependent children ’ ; they may be widowed , divorced , separated or single never-married women ( from now referred to as ‘ single mothers ’ ) . |
| 17 | Following the 1974 NHS reorganisation , we had the introduction of what is now referred to as the departmental system of budgeting ( as in level 2 in Fig. 3.2 ) . |
| 18 | Clive 's latest wheeze was to have the students — now referred to as ‘ customers ’ — grade the teachers on a scale of one to ten . |
| 19 | For that reason , authorisation under EC rules by a member state is now referred to as ‘ the single passport ’ , since it permits the beneficiary to rely upon that authorisation from its home country throughout the Community . |
| 20 | The sick wards were now referred to as the workhouse infirmary , a new block was built in 1916 , and by the twenties , it was this section of the Bedford Union which became St. Peter 's Hospital . |
| 21 | The Mexicans seem to be following a general trend in renaming their penal institutions , and many prisons are now referred to as ‘ Centres for Rehabilitation ’ . |
| 22 | Subsequently Wernicke ( 1874 ) drew attention to defects in the comprehension of language following damage to the posterior third of the superior temporal gyrus on the left side , now referred to as Wernicke 's area . |
| 23 | In a final , ironic comment on what commentators now referred to as ‘ the British disease ’ , television coverage of the national celebration was severely disrupted by a dispute over technicians ' pay . |
| 24 | The report is now referred to the Personnel Committee on 11 May 1993 and on agreement will be implemented as soon as practically possible thereafter . |
| 25 | The process was initiated in 1970 and is now referred to as the European Political Cooperation Procedure . |
| 26 | That is why it is essential that we should continue to develop the space-based defence , which was once called the strategic defence initiative or SDI and is now referred to as ’ brilliant pebbles ’ . |
| 27 | One has to be ever-vigilant in feeding what I believe are now referred to as ‘ multicultural ’ gatherings . ’ |
| 28 | The concept , now referred to as ‘ universal precautions , ’ stresses that all patients should be assumed to be infectious for HIV , HBV , and other blood-borne pathogens . |
| 29 | That particular single matter was not pursued by the ombudsman an and that therefore means that erm it is n't something that er he felt was a question of maladministration but I did want just to emphasise that this particular point , because in the more er i in the recent report to the Policy Resources Committee on ombudsman complaints , the number , and I ca n't recall exactly what the number was , but the number included in that report relating to planning matters was certainly higher than one , I think there were about half a dozen and what I wanted to take the opportunity of explaining was the , the majority of those all but the one that I 've now referred to , er where in fact relating to district matter planning applications and not to the County Council . |
| 30 | That what I always call a family , is now referred to a lot a lot as a family . |