Example sentences of "[be] now [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 2 | And the other thing that 's happened of course , is that the tw , the , the indoor and the outdoor have had to start spending more time working together and think together , and indeed being measured together , because you 're now measured as a team are n't you ? |
| 3 | Today 's teenagers have always had a choice of at least four channels and are now blessed with a multiplicity of choice thanks to satellite and VHS . |
| 4 | In 1976 , thirty-six boxes were returned and are now kept in a strongroom in the archbishop 's palace at Padua . |
| 5 | We are now faced with a wave of admissions to private residential care . |
| 6 | We are now faced with a situation , therefore , in which the debate about ‘ the environment ’ has become so wide-ranging that it has impinged upon almost every aspect of contemporary industrial society . |
| 7 | The variety in shape , size and function has also improved and specific brushes are now manufactured for a myriad of tasks in food industries . |
| 8 | FEUDING ex-lovers Mia Farrow and Woody Allen are now locked in a battle over money . |
| 9 | The Rome conclusions on EMU are now viewed as a quasi-treaty — although Britain never signed them . |
| 10 | They are now recognised as a branch of the British Conservative and Unionist Party , but only thanks to a peasants ' revolt within that party , and no thanks at all to the mandarins of Central Office . |
| 11 | Organs and tissues can be transplanted successfully from one person to another and many lives are now saved as a result . |
| 12 | Domestic customers are now protected by a price formula , and high standards of service are enforced by the independent regulators . |
| 13 | The dye vats themselves are now controlled by a computer which automatically operates valves , flow direction and controls temperatures . |
| 14 | The political forces which once made that movement move are now enveloped in a catastrophe that has two distinct dimensions . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , after recent shake-outs , the staff levels are now pegged following a bumper order book , up four times on the previous year , at £1.7bn , after Royal Navy orders . |
| 16 | As the Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , unwittingly intimidated , ‘ we are now haunted by a monster which we helped to create ’ . |
| 17 | This is particularly true of India and Pakistan , where traditional Persian and Turkoman designs are now produced in a range of pastel shades . |
| 18 | Some 0.02 per cent of Britain 's energy needs or 12,000 homes are now supplied by a power station in Suffolk which runs on chicken droppings . |
| 19 | The mountains and lakes were now revered as a source of ‘ uplift ’ . |
| 20 | She wondered what had been the use of all that trying to get clean on the train if they were now lost in a place where nobody would ever find them , not even when something happened and they disappeared for ever . |
| 21 | The government and the TUC were now committed to a concordat to bring inflation down to 5 per cent over three years , while new TUC guidelines were issued over picketing and the operation of the closed shop . |
| 22 | In March this year , Bishop Peter Ball resigned after being cautioned for gross indecency and is now retired on a church pension . |
| 23 | Budapest Week is now locked in a circulation battle with the new weekly broadsheet , the Budapest Post . |
| 24 | Business is now done through a middleman , an outsider with whom he , initially at any rate , does not have a personal long-standing relationship . |
| 25 | It is now determined to a degree it never was in the past to put an end to beef intervention being viewed , by the Republic of Ireland in particular , as a market it has a right to supply . |
| 26 | That what I always call a family , is now referred to a lot a lot as a family . |
| 27 | The party is now run under a kind of democracy of the dead , whereby huge nominal majorities can be run up in pre-ordained electoral charades , but the real contests and choices have been fixed in advance by an ever-narrowing circle of a favoured élite . |
| 28 | There may be even more job losses because each department is now run as a business with its own staff budget . |
| 29 | ANCA is now recognised as a family of autoantibodies directed against cytoplasmic antigens , mainly lysosomal enzymes , in polymorphonuclear neutrophil leukocytes ( PMNL ) . |
| 30 | The Gas Turbine division is now recognised as a world leader in the repair and overhaul of industrial gas turbines and £3 million was invested during the year to increase the size and scope of its facilities in Aberdeen . |