Example sentences of "[pron] now [vb -s] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesperson for Upjohn says that the company prefers to maintain an independent anti-AIDS programme , which now receives more than a fifth of the corporate budget for drug discovery research . |
| 2 | Under the Act , which now replaces that of 1948 , British citizenship is restricted to those with close personal connections with the United Kingdom , the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man . |
| 3 | The new technology has meant many changes in the new plant which now requires fewer operators to achieve productivity levels of two to four times greater than in the older production plant . |
| 4 | So they have they have in fact embarked on a course which now lets these newspapers really deliver them up on a plate I mean they can fry them , they can bake them , they can grill them , they can roast them because they 've put themselves in a position where they now deserve the criticism and the level of imagery which they 're getting . |
| 5 | None of these large animals could possibly have passed over the arms of the sea which now separates these countries , and their presence plainly indicates that a land communication must have existed since the origin of the species … ’ |
| 6 | A major rationalisation exercise was carried out and resulted in the creation of a single Head Office at Nailsea which now undertakes all the accounting and administration for Wimpey Hobbs , Wimpey Asphalt and the Overseas Contracting activities . |
| 7 | They point out that the acquisition , which now comprises more than a quarter of the MAC 's permanent collection , is of extremely uneven quality , but the MAC policy practically forbids deaccessioning . |
| 8 | The major changes in their economic position which began in the late nineteenth century and have lasted until the present , essentially are responsible for creating the dependence of younger people which now appears such a natural part of human life . |
| 9 | The Bank of England which now holds these cheques will thus debit the accounts of the commercial banks with itself . |
| 10 | Sun Commonwealth of Independent States will be up on SWAN , Sun 's internal worldwide network , which now has some 22,000 nodes . |
| 11 | Sun CIS will be up on SWAN , Sun 's internal worldwide area network , which now has some 22,000 nodes . |
| 12 | They also got a promise from all the haves who were ready to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) — which now means all five declared nuclear powers — that they would pursue nuclear disarmament . |
| 13 | France Telecom says its Itineris network , which now counts some 3,500 subscribers , presently covers the axis between Lille Paris Lyon Marseille Nice . |
| 14 | A retired diplomat who now spends all his time lobbying on Cambodia , has sent a 30-page fax from Los Angeles to my constituency office in Aberdare . |
| 15 | In the south , rebels from another group are pressing the government of President Siad Barre , who now has little authority beyond the capital . |
| 16 | Mrs Major , who now has another five years of red boxes in bed and official lunches in Downing Street to look forward to . |
| 17 | The European Commission itself now recognises that principle . |
| 18 | She now spends half her time working in the Comic Relief office in New Oxford Street , London , when she is not doing her ‘ telly stuff . ’ |
| 19 | She now has another job but can not completely forget her experiences . |
| 20 | The leggy actress has revealed that she now shreds all the rubbish at her Malibu home before putting it out for the dust-men . |
| 21 | It has n't been much of a week for my wife either ; she now sees little prospect of winning back even a beefburger space in the deep freeze . |
| 22 | He now spends most of his time in Northern Kenya , where the Moran ( tribesmen ) still cling to tradition , just . |
| 23 | He now warns any potential franchisee to listen to the people who know : ‘ Talk to as many franchisees as you can ; do n't just listen to the franchisor 's side of the story , ’ he says . |
| 24 | His parent did not force him to attend and he now feels this might have brought scorn from other members of the community . |
| 25 | I can well believe that when he now catches this distinctive smell when passing Indian or Pakistani restaurants a nausea returns to him — it is , so to speak , the cuisine of shame . |
| 26 | He now has some movement in his arms and shoulder which Doctors say is encouraging . |
| 27 | He now has less than a month to ‘ re-engage ’ the negotiations before the United States imposes a savage and crippling 200pc trade tariff on £200m of imported European goods . |
| 28 | IN THE unlikely event that Stephen Hargrave , youthful former chairman of Pathfinders Group , does not get on with his new boss Hugo Biermann — who recently reversed into the company — he now has another venture to concentrate on . |
| 29 | Since then , the forces of continental drift have continued to pull the two continents apart , widening the Atlantic , but the habit of returning to the sea each year to spawn has never been broken even though it now involves such an immense journey . |
| 30 | It 's hard to figure out what exactly is happening with Hunter Systems Inc , Palo Alto , California , since nobody 's returning phone calls : we did manage to find out that its venture capitalist Technology Funding Venture Partners IV in San Mateo , California bought back Hunter 's debt at that auction staged last week ( CI No 2,147 ) — presumably no money really changed hands , and it now owns all of Hunter — but is the company still in business ? |