Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] now a " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAVIE PROVAN , in the past a favourite at Parkhead and now a radio summariser , wore the expression currently described as ‘ gobsmacked ’ when he entered the press lounge at half time . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Kubota Corp — majority shareholder in Stardent and now a 30% stakeholder in AVS Inc — is left with Stardent 's MIPS R3000-based Titan series of high-end graphics workstations . |
| 3 | Bishop Trelawney 's home , Trelawne , is still standing in the parish , as is the ancient manor of Tregarrick , one time home of the Winslades and now a farm . |
| 4 | He tells us that , ‘ with the reassessment of this one drawing in the British Museum ‘ Seated nude surrounded by drapery ’ once a Rembrandt but now a Raven the attribution to Rembrandt of a whole series of nude studies by the same hand collapsed ’ . |
| 5 | One has the odd title of the Boulevard du B.A.B. , revealing that it has taken over the line of the old tramway , the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ; the other , further back from the coast , is the N10 , once the crowded highway along which French motorists hurtled into northern Spain but now a gentler place to drive , the motorway having supplanted it . |
| 6 | Mr Terry Davis , Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill , told the Guardian last night : ‘ As a former employee of British Leyland and now a member of the Commons public accounts committee , I pressed for an inquiry into the sale . |
| 7 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |
| 8 | We 've had a fucking chase through Soho and now a woman 's been murdered . |
| 9 | Sunflowers have already caught on in France and now a handful of farmers are trying their luck with the new crop here . |
| 10 | Morrissey , formerly lead singer of the Smiths and now a solo artist , is the central figure in this demi-monde and he has successfully mounted a long career based on a delightfully British blend of prurience and prudery . |
| 11 | Adam Russell , the great-grandson of former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and now a deer farmer in Dorset , was not overly impressed by Diana when she first walked in . |
| 12 | The 387ft-tall Commercial Union tower , designed by architects GMW and now a shattered shell , was widely praised at the time of its completion in the late 1960s as a successful adaptation of the modern American commercial style , fronting a Manhatten style piazza . |