Example sentences of "now [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So by that weekend of 18–19 March Pons knew that not only was the DOE happy to fund the proposed research programme , but that the preliminary note had now received some measure of approval , which gave confidence in the fusion hypothesis . |
| 2 | After start-up funds from the Gulbenkian to employ our data-base operator , we have now received some funds from the Baring Foundation to assist us in this major task . |
| 3 | He has now received this answer : If you wish to disclose your party , you must do so without using council facilities . |
| 4 | A special unit set up by the Government has now traced more than half the cash which was spirited away by the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 5 | It also renders the food safer as it is now proven that moisture , in addition to heat and time , kills off salmonella , chlostridium botulinum and lysteria most effectively . |
| 6 | I once went to the trouble of having a pair made in the finest white doeskin but fortunately I have now outgrown such extravagances in much the same way that I have outgrown the petty conversations and banal posturings of those who frequent literary gatherings or , worse , television studio canteens . |
| 7 | In addition , Conran 's company had by now developed some advanced management systems of its own . |
| 8 | Poland had by now withdrawn most of its trade through the city to its own port at Gdynia , and the Reich could hardly be expected to maintain or guarantee for an indefinite period the subsidy the city required.20 Lipski and Göring agreed that Germany and Poland should draw together in an understanding that they would jointly stabilise the city if the League should either collapse or decide to withdraw from Danzig . |
| 9 | The spread of ideas and aspirations among literate and mobile populations is now given much more prominence as the key characteristic of ‘ modernization ’ which can explain fertility decline ( Banks 1981 , Cleland 1985 , Cleland and Hobcraft 1987 , Cleland and Wilson 1987 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I have now given some more thought to the next edition of Cymru Wledig . |
| 12 | Now given this analysis of the animal 's ‘ thin ’ or attenuated concept of recognition , it will not be open to Frey to employ the strategy he uses against ‘ simple ’ desires , which bypass beliefs , by attempting to trap their advocate with the question whether or not the animal is aware that it has them ( 1980 : 104–5 , and Chapter 2 , above ) . |
| 13 | I am sorry that it has taken longer to respond to your recent telephone call than I had expected , but I have now examined all the papers relating to this matter and have re-visited Captains Road . |
| 14 | A number of research projects have now examined this question , and a number of conclusions have begun to emerge . |
| 15 | Before the House of Lords Ms Webh argued that the later decision of the Court of Appeal in Hampson v Department of Education and Science [ 1990 ] 2 All ER 25 had now superseded this test and should be applied accordingly . |
| 16 | Wilson and Glick have now added this most luxurious of timbers to their range of kitchens . |
| 17 | I had now regained some of my little courage , drew my sword and whirled it round my head like Sir Lancelot of the Lake . |
| 18 | 6.1 We have now considered most of the major adjectival positions of English , with only the extraclausal to follow in Chapter 9 . |
| 19 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 20 | , that contract is now completed , the infrastructure contract on site itself has been let , and er , we have now resolved all the , the issues that were on that site , and effectively we 've already sold two of the plots off that site before . |
| 21 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 22 | The ratio of bankers ' balances to deposit liabilities will be smaller than it was and if , as we have now said several times , the original ratio was a desired one , then banks will have to make further adjustments to their balance sheets to restore the ratio . |
| 23 | She loved him neither for his even disposition or vast estate — for neither could he offer — and saw him through many tempestuous years of attempts to influence bands and musicians to the floaty sounds that have now met such brilliant commercial success . |
| 24 | Having now met each other , it seemed that everywhere I went on camp I would come face to face with him , usually with his entourage of armourers fanning out behind him . |
| 25 | He had now met another woman and was about to make a fresh start . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course we 're not all here , but you 've now met most of the team . ’ |
| 27 | On 25 June last year the Prime Minister said : ’ We have now met most of the humanitarian needs of the Kurds in Iraq . ’ |
| 28 | I , I compare test matches to more like the chess game you know it 's slower and you sort of you know whatever but these are people who would , did not to test games you know they did n't sort of say okay we 've now met this Pack a Ball thing where you know and everything else . |
| 29 | Financing Transport Infrastructure : This working party has now met several times and has established the key issues it wishes to address in its final report . |
| 30 | The House has now decided that televising of its proceedings should be made permanent . |