Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That division now has four distinct areas of operation — submersible pumps , downhole data acquisition , wellhead equipment , and tubular inspection — each with as representation in the USA . |
| 2 | The main half-timbered building now forms part of a farm , and is in a poor state of repair . |
| 3 | Barry reckons we 've become very self-centred and that money now means everything . |
| 4 | What had previously been a safety valve for German economic change now assumed the aspect of a threat to an already shaken German identity and sense of purpose in the world . |
| 5 | The journalists ' satisfaction at retribution on a man who sneered at Britain in her finest hour now sounds like delusive and individual rant . |
| 6 | What had started out as a quest for metallic hydrogen now became a serious hunt for fusion . |
| 7 | Four daily InterCity services in each direction now take this route . |
| 8 | Her never-failing enthusiasm and dedication helped to build the strong support now enjoyed in this area , and although she is now retired , she still attends a weekly class . |
| 9 | But Scotland , with an economic base now concentrated on light rather than heavy industry , and services and decision-making centres far away from Edinburgh and Glasgow , can not hope to be spared the effects of recession . |
| 10 | By the year 1931 , the population of Great Britain had reached 44.9 million persons , but that figure now included the people in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | Then , buttonhole stitch into each stitch now showing , both layers together . |
| 12 | Inflationary gap Now relax the assumption that wages and prices are fixed , and consider Fig. 10 which illustrates an inflationary gap . |
| 13 | Official forecasts suggest that the country 's GDP will shrink by 0.4% this year , and even that prediction now looks rosy . |
| 14 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
| 15 | According to Alliance Internationale de Tourisme the private car now carries about 75 per cent of all travellers . |
| 16 | Interim review now included by auditors |
| 17 | Even that future now seems in doubt |
| 18 | On Germany , Bush said that he was not sure whether differences over the terms for German unification had been narrowed , although each side now understood the other 's concerns better . |
| 19 | Charities for the homeless report that 5,000 new people a year arrive on the streets and that the total figure now stands at a staggering 300,000 for the whole country . |
| 20 | Her ghostly presence now haunts the ruined castle . ’ |
| 21 | The average British male now has a life expectancy of 77.6 years compared with 75 in 1960 , while women are expected to live until 81.7 compared with 78.9 in 1960 . |
| 22 | There was also an increase of 9 per cent in the number of posts dependent upon outside funding , and posts of this kind now constitute one-third of all appointments . |
| 23 | The commercial function now became the focus of the organization . |
| 24 | The High Synagogue now houses a textile museum and you may buy tickets here for all the museums in the ghetto . |
| 25 | This case now establishes that such covenants will run with the land and that it is only necessary for the lease to provide that the expression " the landlord " includes its successors in title . |
| 26 | And er I do this bit now do n't I ? |
| 27 | This suite now runs as a broadly balanced progression from fast to slow to fast again , or from the brilliant , epigrammatic and many-layered — A Celebration of Some 100 x 150 Notes — to the increasingly linear . |
| 28 | They go every half hour now do n't they ? |
| 29 | This provision now applies in the City of London only . |
| 30 | How monthly repayments will be affected on a typical repayment mortgage : Loan Old payment Now Saving |