Example sentences of "[conj] now [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example lindane , or gamma benzene hexachloride , is an insecticide found in a shampoo called Quellada Application PC — more often prescribed for scabies — and in Lorexane , which , although now withdrawn from the market , may still be held by some chemists . |
| 2 | Although the decisive opening goal , a brilliant volley by Nayim , owed nothing to planning , it was just reward for a display that emphasised the spirit of resilience that now prevails at the club . |
| 3 | The tobacconist parted with his stick and fought his way through the noisy crowd that now spilled into the road . |
| 4 | The church that now stands behind the façade is Waldensian . |
| 5 | If the Government were serious about this matter , would they not remove some of the obstacles that now stand in the way of successful prosecutions under section 12 of the Theft Act ? |
| 6 | Tuff Gong employs 65 people and began in earnest at Bob 's Addis Ab shop on Orange Street in 1977 , when he first pressed records on the manual machines that now stand in the yard . |
| 7 | Yet that 's the ticket that now hangs around the neck of the so-called ‘ Earth Summit ’ , the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) , to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June next year . |
| 8 | Another sure to improve for being stepped up in trip is Saint Keyne , who bolted up at Haydock last time and now goes for the Queen 's Vase . |
| 9 | Amstral has recently been through a combination of management buyouts and takeovers , including the acquisition of Crab Advanced Technologies ' sales and marketing division , and now goes by the name of ABC Workstation Solutions Ltd . |
| 10 | Ace had stopped running , and now walked towards the hoverspeeder very slowly , as if waiting for Defries to catch her up before she reached it . |
| 11 | The shop , established in 1934 and now run by the founder 's grandsons , is undoubtedly one of the most important delicatessens in the country , vast in its range of goods and uncompromising in its quality . |
| 12 | By rights Sue should be more adept at shop work because , after school and while waiting to go to RADA , she served in one of the hardware stores owned by her then businessman father , who became a Midlands MP and now sits in the House of Lords . |
| 13 | This was well captured by George Orwell who , in Coming up for air ( 1939 ) , describes the return of George Bowling , after 18 unimaginative years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda , and now shaken by the fear of a future war , returns to the village of his childhood : Lower Binfield . |
| 14 | As a tourist spectacle it welcomed over 3.5 million visitors in 1988 alone and now ranks as the North West 's premier tourist attraction . |
| 15 | Proposals for the regular assessment of pupil performance are contained in the government 's consultative document on pupil testing ( DES , 1987 ) and now incorporated into the Education Reform Bill . |
| 16 | British consul David Hook was in Waco liaising with the authorities and checking on the health of the three British children released earlier and now recovering in the care of the local child protection agency . |
| 17 | Embarrassed at having seduced the daughter of a friend , and now encumbered with the threat of a far more intense relationship than he 'd bargained for ? |
| 18 | INTEGRAL will follow up observations from the Russian GRANAT mission ( which uses the French gamma-ray telescope SIGMA ) launched in 1989 and now coming to the end of its mission , and the US Compton Gamma Ray Observatory , which was launched by the space shuttle in April 1991 . |
| 19 | The PDS-3 machines , which the company says it is pitching between Sun 's Sparcstation 2 and Sparcstation 10 offerings — will be available in the UK from Pinnacle Data Systems Europe Ltd , Dunstable , Bedfordshire — formerly known as Unix Solutions and now trading under the Pinnacle name — with European distributors being lined up . |
| 20 | A commemorative tablet has the men 's names engraved and now hangs in the foreman 's room . |
| 21 | Outcomes are of importance : eg resurgence of interest in local history and traditions ( Ness Historical Society ) ; self-help ( youth group , horticultural group ) ; revival of ancient skills ( weaving ) ; use by schools of community organisations ' productions ; political awareness stimulated by local video-tape production in Gaelic on the subject of a local Army installation ; economic developments ; publications ; pre-school developments ( educational and social , and now linked with the pilot development of Open University materials for parents ) ; linguistic awareness ; social awareness , via merging of established roles , eg parent/ teacher , community worker/fellow horticulturalist , informal/vocational education . |
| 22 | Lawrence in Sons and Lovers , and he would have known the engine house and pithead winding gear built in 1873 and now preserved by the county council . |
| 23 | Hetty had left the shop to work in an ordnance factory soon after Sarah returned , and now to add to the misery of the two girls , Mabel went to train as an auxiliary nurse and Mrs Dyson 's sister came to take charge of the shop . |
| 24 | Expect laughter and tears all the way through this spicy tale of highbrow Alice Potter divorced from an infamous husband , and now pursued by the Press gang . |
| 25 | Of the non-QTS qualifications , the best known are those developed by the Royal Society of Arts and now administered by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate . |
| 26 | My wife wished to take a photograph of me leaning against it from uphill and I have to report that the stone proved not to be immovable and now rests at the bottom of the slope . |
| 27 | The original was returned from Sweden and now rests in the Castle Museum . |
| 28 | To the right of the two churches , down near the water , is the grotto itself , a humbler place though naturally not spared the apparatus of the cult : a statue of the Virgin , an altar , seats , a small and poignant row of crutches that have been discarded and now hang against the rock wall . |
| 29 | The remaining two sites were the Mile End Hall estate , where Stockport School now stands , and the place eventually chosen and now occupied by the School , the Bramhall Lodge estate , then owned by Mr. Alfred Bell , a member of the well-known local brewing family . |
| 30 | The wind had risen powerfully during the evening and now thumped against the side of the car , whistling through its hidden but inevitable apertures . |