Example sentences of "now is [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The thing to do now is to explain the situation as it affects you at present .
2 Holyfield starts training next month , but right now is watching the Olympics and doing nothing more testing than shadow boxing and jogging two miles a day around the Crystal Harmony , the Coca-Cola company 's flagship in Barcelona harbour .
3 Our problem now is to accommodate both political polls and commercial research , ’ he said .
4 The most important task now is to promote to potential employers the benefit of employing members of this Institute .
5 But the house at now is ruining I think , is it ?
6 The best it hopes for now is to stop things getting worse .
7 It has launched a thousand folk tales ; and now is proving a superb model for studying the hormones that control plant growth
8 I think the best thing for me to do now is to give you a day by day account of what has happened since we have been here .
9 So what you 'll have to do now is go back to erm page eighteen I guess , no have n't got page eighteen have we ?
10 That looks nice erm , all we have to do now is go and erm get a card and take the price , oh the prices must be on these
11 Or all the ones that need sold , you know , got nice photographs of all the sold boards , and what I want her to do now is go and literally go and traipse the streets
12 The best we can hope for now is to see the effects on the wild birds and animals , whose behaviour is much more in tune with the seasons .
13 I think I 'm really sorry now is to see all the old words really going .
14 County Council and the department transport strategy right now is to see the A one three four , north of Bury St Edmunds be made a trunk road and the
15 ‘ What I 'd really like to do now is to go for a drink with you .
16 Okay , what I 'd like to do now is to go through the pads that you 've been given .
17 What you 've got to do now is get yourself together .
18 Whereas what we 're trying to do with this new definition of quality now is get the idea of conformance with requirements .
19 ‘ What we must do now is get married , ’ he declared .
20 The share of the next 2–5 per cent increased from 18 to 33 per cent in 1960 , but now is recorded as 20 per cent .
21 Right , now what I 'd like to do now is ask you for some of your , some names of friends of yours who , who I could go through the same process with them and , and establish their financial security for them too .
22 One thing I hate now is seeing telly programmes involving violence or mental pain .
23 So all we 've got to do now is to untie everything and go sailing .
24 What we need to do now is make them look interesting and we do that using the what is called formatting options .
25 What you 've got to do now is make them into salesmen , forgive me again for using the phrase salesmen , I appreciate that all of you are not men .
26 But no matter where East Europeans would like to end up , what counts now is getting them there .
27 But Michael Barnes is keeping his plans for that celebration time secret — the most important thing right now is getting the Opera House all lit up again for Jack and the Beanstalk .
28 The challenge now is to reverse these standpoints .
29 ‘ All I am trying to do now is prepare people for the breakthrough by introducing the concept and start discussions on how we address any problems which may result . ’
30 The other thing I will do now is relax without feeling guilty .
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