Example sentences of "[art] [noun] now [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Then , by birth and by upbringing , he offers in his own person a connection between the Czechoslovakia now beginning to resume its history after 20 years in the deep freeze and both the pre-war Republic and the experiment in state socialism that followed liberation from the Nazis .
2 The lack of feminist perspective is emphasized by statements such as : ‘ There can be no doubt that women and girls have failed to make full use of the opportunity now open to them ’ , which implies an ideologically and materially unfettered equality of opportunity .
3 The majority now believed that Bunker 's more realistic approach made more sense .
4 The majority now feel that , far from being irrelevant , the ‘ equality agenda ’ is crucial to influencing the long-term quality of working life for both women and men , and thus the credibility of the trade-union movement .
5 Against such a background he perceives , in terms echoed a year later by Michael Young , that the eleven-plus is ‘ likely to cause the working-classes now to lose many of the critical tentacles which they would have retained years ago and that a new caste system might prove to be at least as rigid as the old ’ .
6 The Prince now has a strong team behind him , which is more in tune with his activities than ever before , and better qualified .
7 ‘ An' you watch fo' dat Gilda woman , boy , ’ the old man warned , referring to the hurricane now hitting the southern end of the Caribbean .
8 This rich Lord of the Manor now stood in the middle of the hall revelling in his ostentatious show of wealth whilst servants placed high-backed chairs in front of the fire .
9 And the change now means that if a married woman , it does n't , as I say , it does n't affect single women , if a married woman now has n't earned income using all her allowances , so she does n't work has n't worked , never qualified for a pension , or does work but does n't earn more than that , and the couple have got investment income then it 's sensible to switch that into the wife 's name to give her income to use up her allowances .
10 After the disastrous storms and floods of 1890 in which vast sections of Grisedale and Garsdale were washed away , bridges destroyed and people made homeless , the stone lip of the waterfall was found to have been destroyed completely by the force of the water , so much so that instead of falling from an overhanging shelf a majestic hundred feet on to the rocks below , the waterfall now raced down in a series of cascades .
11 The struggle now became more equal , for the churned , blood-stained mud affected both sides ; and both were short of food and ammunition , since their supply lines had been largely demolished by rival artillery fire .
12 ‘ I had the sense he was rather sad , ’ the writer now remembers .
13 For myself , middle-aged and of a generally conservative disposition , I regret these changes , in particular the depreciation of the Anglo-Welsh occasions : not only because there are fewer of them but also because the clubs now tend to field their second XVs .
14 Goals from Joe Robertson and James McGinty yesterday earned Rangers a 2-1 win over Partick Thistle , while Celtic beat Queen 's Park 4-2 in the tournament in which the clubs now field their youth sides .
15 The Flames now have to fit in a home and away Championship decider with the A winners , likely to be Solihull , some time over the three weekends of the promotion play-offs .
16 Similar attitudes of troops of occupation of all ages and in all places , from South America to India , help us understand the revulsion now felt by many Britons , some of whom may have been sympathetic to Rome and hopeful of recognition of their natural rights and dignity .
17 The board now seek control on only the parameters of profit , cash and broad strategic direction .
18 But the Board now asks the general assembly to look again at this part of our remit and to form a judgment about where this work should be most effectively done in future .
19 The hospice now needs to be furnished , so that we can provide respite for up to 15 patients a day .
20 The Flowers , alongside The Waterboys now adopted Irish citizens , decamped in the County Galway fishing village of Spiddal have been the biggest visible influence on a generation of urban folk dreamers .
21 While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc .
22 It 's taken the club a couple of years to get its youth policy back on track , but all the signs now suggest that the current crop of teenagers is the most promising since John Robertson , Gary Mackay and David Bowman came through the ranks in the early Eighties .
23 The throne now passed to Sophia 's son , a 54-year-old German , who automatically became King George I of England , the founder of a new dynasty , the Hanoverians .
24 What clearly frustrates him is that so much of the money now sloshing around in professional tennis , is being spent in damaging — or at least potentially damaging ways — rather than for the good of the game , as well as for the good of the individuals who are benefitting .
25 Before he left he wrote to Routh suggesting that if some of the money now wasted utterly in relief works were instead put into interest-free loans to the Irish railways , a great deal of employment would follow , not only on the lines but in the trade they would stimulate .
26 Fusion funding remains steady , but with the money now divided mostly between the two leading machines , the tokamak and mirror-fusion .
27 However each can learn something from the others , and it is thanks to International co-operation on this level that the RNLI began to operate the Waveney ( originally an American coastguard design ) , and that the Canadians now build and operate the Arun class .
28 The Parliament now proposes , and the Council of Ministers has agreed , that an SE may be formed by a public or private company by merging or forming a holding company , or indeed , if it has a presence in more than one Member State , by transforming itself into an SE .
29 Each successive generation from the reign of Edward I. onwards has laboured to produce that complete political unity which is represented by the absolute sovereignty of the Parliament now sitting at Westminster .
30 Most analysts have now cut their first quarter forecast , and the views now range from a loss of 64 cents a share to a profit of eight cents — and David Wu of S G Warburg has gone out on a limb with forecast $0.80 a share loss .
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