Example sentences of "[vb pp] now [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had completely forgotten now about the rest of the class . |
| 2 | Comparative testing of cost-effectiveness has led to most newly-built housing areas being designed now around the 30 km/h provision with associated speed-reducing measures . |
| 3 | Owned now by the National Trust it is a delight to visit . |
| 4 | He had come now in the mid-passage of his life to a forest dark and he had lost the straight path . |
| 5 | Selection interviews are generally carried now in the early summer to permit research to start in autumn ( freeing the staff of the SOED 's Research and Intelligence Unit to concentrate on identifying and preparing next year 's round of research priorities … ) . |
| 6 | This structural awareness can be as hard to handle as any decision to try to publish the account , for what has happened in the past and what is expected now from the insider is tied up with an understanding of how the institution of policing prefers to present a restricted image for outside consumption , as I have described above . |
| 7 | has already crapped himself about the visit cause extra work of course but er the er however we should er revert maybe we 'll keep an eye on the schedule and things er but we we need to tie it up tight so we do n't get a cos I mean what 's being said now in the corridors of power is that the schedule is totally sales driven and it 's the sales department that 's put it together , I am only the administrator , I only I d I completely take my orders from the sales department quote unquote in front of everybody at the management meeting . |
| 8 | difficulty in working out whether she 's understanding what we 've said now in the way of instructions until it comes back . |
| 9 | Patrick subsided into his seat , thoroughly alarmed now at the expression on his mother 's face . |
| 10 | So that 's all got to happen and can we expect that the improvements that have been made now to the syst to the management of this process will not give rise to the same delays that occurred in getting this system flight safe . |
| 11 | A similar point is made now in the context of assemblies : " When a man came to the assembly from one of the regions , the king was concerned to ask him what news he had brought with him that ought to be reported and discussed , and he would be strictly required before he next returned to the palace to make exhaustive enquiries outside as well as within the realm , getting information from outsiders as well as from his own people , and from enemies as well as from friends , without concerning himself overmuch about how any person questioned had come by his information . " |
| 12 | What have the citizens done now with the old port and its quays ? |
| 13 | Freed now from the burden of dealing with the Witch King , Teclis turned his energies on the horde of evil . |
| 14 | The one which was being shown now in the large stockroom at the end of the corridor was flickering and rather grainy . |
| 15 | How long have we got now till the end of term ? |
| 16 | A vision is needed now by the Church of England as never before . |
| 17 | Whatever the future effects of the Tomlinson report on nurses and nursing services , nurses are being affected now by the problems of the capital , says Pearl Brown , primary services manager of the Riverside Health Authority and a member of the inquiry team . |
| 18 | They 're employed now by the I P A , now , so they 're on a regular basis , th th th boatmen today what they call boatmen today , as I say they 're not boatmen , they 're just ropemen I call it . |
| 19 | I simply , I simply ca n't deal with the question because some of these are , are raised now for the first time |
| 20 | no I 'm not , I 'm sorry I said some of them are raised now for the first time , I was about to say I 'm not complaining I 'm simply pointing out , standing here without the instructions I ca n't deal with the matter |
| 21 | In the decade or so since , they have progressed to the top of their field but with Kasparov always in front and generally recognised now as the world 's best player . |
| 22 | We have stumbled now into the dark cellars of ecumenism whence multilateral Church conversationalists dare not go . |
| 23 | His startling face , the pure athleticism of his body , barely disguised now by the stylish cut of his evening clothes , made everything ten times worse . |
| 24 | She went higher and higher and I kept running , outpaced now by the wind and the kite . |
| 25 | Mrs Wright had stopped now by the hide . |
| 26 | The boy crouched , glaring up at him fiercely , still panting , his suffused face marked now by the lean white stains of the blows , just beginning to flood with angry red . |
| 27 | Why must her blonde hair , bleached now by the long summer 's light to a ravishing pallor , be chopped so harshly ? |
| 28 | Coenwulf had several brothers and would seem to have been a member of a very powerful kindred , some of whose landed estates were centred on the region of Winchcombe , but none of his forebears had reigned as kings and Alcuin 's observations in a letter to the people of Kent in 797 that scarcely anyone was to be found now of the old stock of kings and the more obscure their origin , the less their courage , could certainly be construed as a slight on Coenwulf . |
| 29 | The provisions are to be found now in the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 30 | I believe that the money should be spent now on the services used now , and we must ensure that the planning is right so that the terminus is built in the right place . |