Example sentences of "now [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Staff development , focused on teaching effectiveness , is now undertaken systematically by many institutions of higher education .
2 United have now dropped back into 15th place in the 1st division .
3 The 20th century may have been slow to arrive in Langtoft , but it is all the better for that , and whilst the village has now caught up with modern times , it remains a haven of peace from the mad pace of town and city life .
4 Operations are now carried out on special trolleys which are hinged to allow the head to drop below the feet , ensuring a continuing blood supply to the brain in the event of sudden loss of blood pressure .
5 The Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on Intel Corp iAPX-86-based machines ( UX No 429 ) .
6 Meantime the Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on iAPX-86-based machines ( CI No 2,133 ) .
7 Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time .
8 The world is now parcelled up in independent States which claim a monopoly in the employment of nationalism .
9 One example of this is the Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service ( HTFS ) , founded in 1968 , now operated jointly by Atomic Energy of Canada , the National Engineering Laboratory and AEA .
10 Castells has now moved on to new areas of research , one of these being new forms of communications technology and the threats and opportunities represented by such developments.3 Meanwhile , however , his emphasis on consumption set the tone for a very thriving area of urban sociology by later writers in this tradition .
11 And if memory serves ( what was she called , that girl who did the PR for Windscale , Sellafield I should say , and Aldershot FC ? ) , oh yes , Daphne Grierson , who has now moved on to greater things and is image adviser to Nigel Canada ( is that correct ? ) the teenage fiddle-player .
12 The 12-year-old has now moved on to Branksome School , but still keeps in close contact with Philip , who lives next door .
13 ‘ We 're not there yet , because it 's not mathematically certain we can stay up , ’ insisted manager Ian Branfoot , whose team have now crept up to 17th place .
14 One fighter had been a Skinhead and had worn the appropriate ‘ gear ’ of his time but had now grown out of this kind of thing .
15 The greater bamboo lemur lives in the Madagascan rainforest and has been affected by the decline in giant bamboo stems which are now used up by human settlements .
16 The 14-bed Ward 5B is now used exclusively for this type of treatment .
17 The 14-bed Ward 5B is now used exclusively for this type of treatment .
18 This material shows the potential advantages of hydrogel IOLs , which are now used extensively in ocular applications .
19 The American word ‘ normalization ’ is now used increasingly in official planning documents to describe the concept , as far as possible , of providing services in ways which maintain mentally disordered people in , or return them to , ‘ as normal a life as possible ’ .
20 No. 28 was formerly the wheel turning shop , but it is now used mainly for automatic machines .
21 Relatively recently , feminist scholars , now drawn closer through common experience to an older generation many of whose values they had challenged , have extended their concerns and pushed forward a more subtle questioning of women 's experience of ageing and how it might differ from men 's as a result of inequalities right through the life cycle .
22 These are now supplied automatically with some machines .
23 Our own sonar is now locked on to this device and the sonar room has suddenly become the focal centre of interest in the Kilcharran .
24 A similar paper on radio- telescopes is now bogged down in legal proceedings , initiated by members of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils .
25 Secondly , the paper on radio astronomy is not ‘ now bogged down in legal proceedings ’ .
26 The alerce is now found only in remote mountain regions of the Andes and Chile 's coastal cordillera , where there are also extensive areas of dead trees , for reasons as yet unexplained .
27 THE pastime of hurling plates around tavernas is now frowned on by Greek authorities .
28 As it deepened to the random of the East Shaft top landing station a connecting tunnel was driven between the two and sinking debris was now brought out at this point and tipped on the fellside .
29 Yeah but it 's now gone up to two point
30 The debate has now gone on for thirty minutes .
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