Example sentences of "now [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those involved with ACET are now helping provide home care for one in four of all those dying with AIDS in the UK and up to 4,000 school pupils a month are now receiving education on the subject . |
| 2 | Mal Gibb joined a Lancaster scheme after a degree in systems modelling at Sheffield Polytechnic and is now helping to develop computerised production at Nairn Kingfisher , a wallpaper plant on the Lancaster quayside . |
| 3 | Mal Gibb joined a Lancaster scheme after a degree in systems modelling at Sheffield Polytechnic and is now helping to develop computerised production at Nairn Kingfisher , a wallpaper plant on the Lancaster quayside . |
| 4 | The new possibilities of sound had been suggested by the great success of that ‘ gabby ’ medium the radio which was now helping to give American actuality a new urgency and also by the Broadway stage where the great success of Hecht and MacArthur 's The Front Page had hinted at the dramatic possibilities of ordinary everyday dialogue . |
| 5 | The creation of the ocean of consumer debt now helping to float our prosperity , is a marvel equal to what Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to achieve with perestroika . |
| 6 | One man is now helping with their inquiries . |
| 7 | A 19 year old man is now helping police with their inquiries . |
| 8 | A former parachute instructor who was paralysed in an accident is now helping other people with spinal injuries to lead an independent life . |
| 9 | A twenty year old man is now helping police with their enquiries . |
| 10 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 11 | Nearer home he recalls the late Gordon Coe 's 50 years at Evenwood , Harry Brown 's near lifetime service to Shildon and generations of the Fairbairn family then as now helping football survive at Tow Law . |
| 12 | The Pisante brothers who own it are now helping with inquiries , as the phrase goes . |
| 13 | You can start digging about six foot though , start , start digging a long time is your missus now helping you ? |
| 14 | It says a Christmas service will be held in the oh no it is n't the juniors are now helping the infants with their nativity story on Wednesday the eighteenth of December this was originally a advertised , by me , at taking place at six thirty in Walton St. Peter Church , I 'm afraid this was a mistake on my part , as in fact the performance is rather ten thirty on the da on that day at Walter St. Andrew Church . |
| 15 | Local mothers have formed and are now administering Scotland 's first Gaelic-speaking pre-school playgroups . |
| 16 | Independent trustees Bradstock & Blunt are now administering the pension fund . |
| 17 | As the public sector debt repayment is now contracting in size ( to only £0.4 billion in 1990/91 compared with £14.7 billion in 1988/89 and £7.9 billion in 1989/90 ) and as a public sector borrowing requirement is expected for the 1991/92 and 1992/93 financial years , it seems likely that regular issuance of Treasury bills will be maintained . |
| 18 | But their leader , Abdullah Ocalan , is now transmitting messages from PKK headquarters — no longer a camp in the Syrian Bekaa Valley but an apartment in a Damascus suburb — that are not dissimilar from those coming from ministries in Ankara . |
| 19 | Does that mean that the point of contact is now whizzing round infinitely quickly ? |
| 20 | Erm so whether you think of it as the point is now whizzing round infinitely quickly , or it just stopped , |
| 21 | But one child I know caught his parents prowling around with stockings at the dead of night and is now impressing upon his little pals that the whole thing is a con . |
| 22 | As Laz was now gazing at his reflection and feeling his chin , Rex finished the bottle of Old Bedwetter . |
| 23 | This category was now proving vital to Bolshevik organization in the Roslavl' uezd , even if much of its work was more like security and espionage rather than positive encouragement to the peasantry to collaborate with the party . |
| 24 | One owner of former Chester Beatty material — although he has in the past denied this — now proving reluctant to return it , is David Nasser Khalili , the dealer/collector who is offering his collection on loan to the British nation ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 21 , October 1992. p.1 ) . |
| 25 | It should be a mounting series of difficulties , only here the difficulties are not major confrontations but small incidents such as a foot caught in a briar root or a gate that has always been open now proving to be locked . |
| 26 | He had been long absent from the public balcony of the Roman palace which he had made his stage , and he was now proving that he was n't in chronic decline , as rumour held , with a pox contracted years ago , but had merely suffered a passing dose of ‘ flu . |
| 27 | But modern culture is now proving to be vulnerable on two counts , one social , one intellectual . |
| 28 | The original cause of disaffiliation , ILP control over its parliamentary group , was now proving to be disruptive to the Party . |
| 29 | Dataquest , a market-research company based in California , is now forecasting that a 4-megabit chip will cost barely three times more than a 1-megabit chip by next year ( see chart ) . |
| 30 | 'Twill be well because he is not the real thing , never could be , and is not even now presuming to be ; but conversely , 'twill be well because the imitation , the travesty , of the real thing can also usurp it and to all intents and purposes become it . |