Example sentences of "now [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Operators have been in discussion with the Health and Safety Executive for some time , and we have now come up with a code of practice accepted by the HSE and drawn up by BERSA ( British Elastic Ropes Sports Association ) . ’ |
| 2 | Thus , Boswell and Johnson found a room at the crowded New Inn , which no longer exists : the corner where it stood , and which it once shared with the city jail , is now occupied comprehensively by a bank . |
| 3 | Hindenburg , who had taken part in the victorious campaigns of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 , was now built up into a father figure : the old general who had again thrown back the invaders of the Fatherland . |
| 4 | But it 's actually now made out as an adoption of the dog . |
| 5 | So here they were , on the first floor of the old lodge , which was now used just as a bothy . |
| 6 | With the help of new technology it has now branched out into a franchise operation called Videopics . |
| 7 | Helen was now bent sternly over a shopping list . |
| 8 | At least people knew where they stood with him , and the darkened corridors of local government , with their forbidding and ever-present whiff of graft and back-scratching , were now lit up in a blaze of publicity . |
| 9 | The young couple were now secluded together for a week in a specially decorated apartment . |
| 10 | Wolves defender Derek Mountfield has completed a three-match ban — but is now ruled out with a heel injury . |
| 11 | The fighting spread from the two helpless ships to the third rammed behind them , now cramped fast with a grappling-iron and rocking with incomers from the two dying vessels ahead . |
| 12 | Two miles or so to the south lies the village of Stockerston , now shrunk almost to a hamlet , with its attractive Perpendicular church standing alone on the hillside — a sure sign of some interesting change in village history . |
| 13 | She turns to the visitor , who has now subsided on to a settee . |
| 14 | Friends of Dr Owen say that his farewell advice to the nation — he has now stood down as an MP — is intended to avoid damaging the chances for his two remaining SDP colleagues , Rosie Barnes and John Cartwright , who are fighting to hold on to their south-east London seats . |
| 15 | They are at their best when they take chances , throwing a dash of reggae and a muted heavy-metal riff into Do n't Knock Till You Try It , and when they re-work an old folk standard , 500 Miles , which is now dressed up with a reggae beat , lap-steel guitar , and harmonica , new lyrics about Tiananmen Square , and the dreaded Peter , Paul And Mary still joining in . |
| 16 | The institutional investors that charged into junk bonds in the 1980s have now headed off at a gallop in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | Ant has now backed up against a wall . ) |