Example sentences of "[coord] now the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now the Premier League beckons . |
| 2 | This includes the Madeira Carlton Hotel ( formerly the Sheraton and now the largest hotel in Portugal ) , the Casino Park Hotel , more hotels , offices and apartments under construction , as well as the Madeira Beach Club timeshare complex . |
| 3 | Thus , ads targeted at 40-year-old housewives started to use hit tunes first from the fifties and now the late sixties . |
| 4 | And now the great blade spun to a whine , while the black curtain fell away from the window , directing a blinding beam on to the bright , hungry teeth . |
| 5 | He had been apprehensive but had gone along with her idea all the same and now the small room was a regular haunt of the local foremen and managers , as well as a meeting-place for the trade union officials who held impromptu meetings over mugs of steaming hot tea and bacon sandwiches . |
| 6 | In a speech to the Romanian Communist Party Congress earlier this week , he attacked the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939 that carved up Poland and the Baltic states between them , but also ceded Bessarabia — then part of Romania and now the Soviet Republic of Moldavia — to Moscow . |
| 7 | Gradually , however , they had all been infected by Yussuf 's low spirits and now the orderly room was an oasis of gloom . |
| 8 | The texture of the sounds , the little ant-bear funnels , the twittering of the water sprinklers , the unnamed but instantly familiar birds , the patient devotions of the gardeners , the numberless frogs ( now in caviare-eyed repose on water lilies and ledges ) , the huge , lazy tadpoles , the dragonflies on their biplane wings skimming the water , the busy red ants returning with baguettes of grass ( the same ants which used to run up the shorts of children and sink their vicious fangs into unwary little scrota ) and now the distant thwack of tennis bails and the inevitable muted cries of anguish — all these impressions play so strongly on my memory because they leap thirty-five years of my life in one bound . |
| 9 | ‘ I should think you might be ready at six-thirty , ’ and now the quizzical eye was cocked at Sally-Anne . |
| 10 | ‘ And now the six months is nearly up . |
| 11 | And now the other main play-themes are added , each connected with a different kind of prey-hunting . |
| 12 | Having read with interest the saga of the Ashley Court Hotel , and now the first instalment on the Valley Hotel ( Caterer , 11–17 July ) , it strikes me that the Povahs and the Cassons should combine their marketing , accounting and food systems skills . |
| 13 | And now the first STV general election is being held , the voters in the polling booths are busily writing 1,2,3,4,5 … instead of marking the customary X , and the sun is shining . |
| 14 | And now the first of the small crowd had reached the car . |
| 15 | Pallister survived a traumatic start at Old Trafford to win FA Cup and European Cupwinners Cup medals , and now the First Division championship is within United 's grasp . |
| 16 | He had offered her coffee and now the two of them sat sipping it . |
| 17 | And now the former Champion Hurdler , trained by Toby Balding ( above ) , is almost certain to make a quick reappearance in the Racecall Hurdle at Ascot on Friday , provided he comes through a gallop tomorrow morning . |
| 18 | And now the second verse is who , she 's as generous as Robin Hood and all his merry men , she 's as kind as Florence Nightingale and then as kind again , right super mum she has x- ray vision , she can |
| 19 | The right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , the right hon. Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) and now the right hon. Member for Henley ( Mr. Heseltine ) have all been unsuccessful and got it wrong . |
| 20 | So I think I 'm asking for just a bit more , more talks and where there is a , a home or homes in a rural area that may be the only home in that area , so it is available to local people that Social Services come in and there in an understanding in planning authorities first and now the actual criteria we 're working on because most local people will think that home is for local people . |
| 21 | Ayesha reintroduces the central figure reborn from the apparent death at the end of She and now the sole survivor of the cult of Isis , living in a volcanic mountain fortress , this time in Tibet , and with some difficulty holding her power against a wild tribe in the valley , partly consisting of survivors from Alexander 's army , under the control of Queen Atene , who proves to be a reincarnation of the Egyptian princess , Amenartas , beloved of Kallikrates . |
| 22 | And now the substantial points : |
| 23 | She had tried to help Carolyn , and now the bloody girl was acting as if Clare was a bossy teacher . |
| 24 | This had become her world , this boat with Fen , and now the energising force had been withdrawn , leaving her in a limbo of despair . |
| 25 | So it should happen that Mr Kirkley was at home when the guests arrived and was able to add to his surprise and not a little amazement when his daughter 's friend was delivered at his door by Raggie Aggie , for Aggie had long been a known character , she and her hand-cart , and now the pony-driven flat-cart ; and of course the fact that she was almost as broad as it was . |
| 26 | An ivory ban was supported by the EEC , the USA , Japan and Hong Kong midway through 1989 and now the African elephant has been placed on the CITES Appendix 1 list . |
| 27 | It was switched off in 1989 , and now the hundred foot long pipes used to carry hot carbon dioxide to run the giant turbines producing electricity are coming down . |
| 28 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 29 | After the Macleods ' modest grandeur and great hospitality , Raasay House became a hotel , and now the bare boards of the Adventure School thud with young feet ; they sleep in bunks and merry community where Johnson had a room to himself , which , as he told Mrs Thrale , ‘ in eleven rooms to forty people was more than my share ’ . |
| 30 | Because of the raging personal computer price war , the European market started to expand strongly in 1992 and now the Japanese market , despite its general economic sluggishness , is also expanding . |