Example sentences of "now [verb] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against such a background he perceives , in terms echoed a year later by Michael Young , that the eleven-plus is ‘ likely to cause the working-classes now to lose many of the critical tentacles which they would have retained years ago and that a new caste system might prove to be at least as rigid as the old ’ . |
| 2 | In practical terms , programme makers increasingly fretted that , in a system now producing many hours of television , it was virtually impossible to work independently of the BBC or an ITV company . |
| 3 | ‘ I now perceive many advantages in our present complex system of representation , which formerly eluded my observation ’ Letter to James Losh , 1821 . |
| 4 | At first this was hard to prove , since local authorities were now given many new relief duties : at the same time a number of extensive taxation rights were transferred away from them to the Centre . |
| 5 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 6 | With the degree of mechanisation now found many of the hours claimed would be seasonal . |
| 7 | We had no time left to visit the extreme right sector ( Top Secret ) which had nine routes of around English 5c in the 1989 guide , but now has many more . |
| 8 | Blackwells ' Art & Poster Shop now has many customers who come specifically to buy cards because they can not get what they want elsewhere . |
| 9 | Superdrug will now refit many high street shops with a new perfume counter . |
| 10 | This tax invoice now assumes many of the characteristics we have come to associate with an internal VAT invoice , for not only will it show the customer 's VAT number , it will also be used by the UK acquirer of goods from within the EC as evidence to recover acquisition tax . |
| 11 | Our discussions ranged through the whole spectrum of life , from the sublime to the trivial , and while I do not now remember many of the conclusions that we reached then , the quality of that communication is still with me . |
| 12 | The MOH has changed policies to adapt to donor demands and foreign NGOs now control many districts . |
| 13 | We now understand many of the problems but there is still a great deal which is not properly understood . |
| 14 | The volume of economic transnational practices has increased phenomenally since the 1950s , as evidenced by the tremendous growth of foreign trade , l and this means that even some quite poor people in some poor countries can now distinguish many consumer goods in terms of their origins and the status-conferring advantages that some origins have over others . |
| 15 | His face had now assumed many superb hues , a sort of fleshy palette of violets , reds and blue-blacks . |
| 16 | I told him I now knew many things I did n't know before . |
| 17 | If it is upsetting to think that the education system now denies many children that voyage of discovery which begins on the muddy playing field , it is encouraging to learn that sport at club level is taking up the strain . |
| 18 | Denon has ‘ recreated ’ the ‘ true original sound ’ of the original Savoy master recordings ( the quotes being Denon 's words ) and is now re-issuing many Savoy albums as originally presented , at mid-price , and complete with original LP front covers and notes ( and Savoy 's famous misspellings . |
| 19 | The problem of jet-set pests in aircraft is reflected in other forms of transport ; container lorries are now carrying many of the same exotic infestations that previously used to arrive only by ship . |
| 20 | Celie now had many people , all women , who loved her dearly , she was no longer alone . |
| 21 | On landing the shattered Bamberger , who had now survived many weeks of combat , announced : ‘ I 'm not taking off from this bloody island again ! ’ |
| 22 | Scottish universities now take many students from the Republic of Ireland and Scotland has to pay the full tuition fees for all those students . |
| 23 | Since 1955 it has been used as a museum and now houses many of the best religious paintings , sculptures and vestments from the island 's churches , including several fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Flemish works , said to have been obtained in exchange for sugar shipped from Funchal . |
| 24 | As an increasing exporter and provider of goods and services on a worldwide basis , the John Wood Group now spans many countries throughout the world . |
| 25 | As a result , farming interests now dominate many of the park committees and there must be doubt as to whether they are able to give proper consideration and weight to the park purposes when agricultural applications are being considered . |
| 26 | Telecommunications systems for hotels now perform many more tasks than just allowing people to make telephone calls . |
| 27 | We now have many multiple sclerosis patients who have benefited from this treatment which is well illustrated by one of our early cases . |
| 28 | Thus we now have many more older people and many fewer children with whom they might live , and it is not surprising therefore that the last half-century has been characterized by a reduction in the proportion of single elderly people living with relatives . |
| 29 | While women now have many of the formal political and legal rights that men have , there is still a striking absence of women from positions of public power and authority . |
| 30 | Cajun cooking , on the other hand , reflects the food found in the Louisiana countryside — the many woods , swamps , bayous ( inland waterways ) and lakes — although the two cultures now have many dishes in common and the distinctions have become blurred . |