Example sentences of "[verb] now [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the government has now bowed to pressure and announced that it would act as ‘ insurer of last resort ’ for terrorist bomb damage on the British mainland . |
| 2 | During the 1980s rural populations have grown more slowly then they did ten years earlier and some have declined ; in contrast not only has there been a substantial slowdown in the rate of London 's population decline ( Britton 1986 ) , but it has now gone into reverse in a small way . |
| 3 | The first prize has now gone to Dr Richard Gentle , a specialist in fluid mechanics at Nottingham University . |
| 4 | As Coun Carmedy has now stated in front of a large number of people that what I said was untrue , I offer him this challenge . |
| 5 | The idea behind this policy was to try and expand the software and services side of ICL 's business , which has now grown to £600m a year . |
| 6 | ‘ The cosy notion of a soft landing has now evaporated in investors ’ minds , ’ Mr Martin said . |
| 7 | I understand that that estimate has now risen to £58 million . |
| 8 | There are some observers — myself included — who feel that the July meeting at Down Royal has now gained in importance to such an extent that it deserves to be kept on its own and I understand that the Killarney executive are not totally against a move to an earlier date . |
| 9 | The search for other materials to analyse has now progressed to copper alloys . |
| 10 | He was the man who knew all the best positions and though he has now retired from football to run golfing weekends at places like the Meon Valley Hotel Golf and Country Club near Winchester , he assures you that once you 've scored five times a night you never forget it . |
| 11 | Of the latter , the Cirl Bunting does not appear to have taken advantage of the increasing scrub , possibly because much of it is on north-facing slopes , and it has now declined in numbers . |
| 12 | The market has now declined in importance , due to the inability of authorities to borrow and the unpopularity of the assets with investors uncertain about the future of local authority finance . |
| 13 | The innovation brought only mixed success , and the small telescope has now fallen into disrepair . |
| 14 | Ageing by sutures has now fallen into disfavour . |
| 15 | Over half of all patients developed a clinically import nt complication in the first 100 operations ( 52% ) ; this figure has now fallen to 25% in the last 68 operations . |
| 16 | But the consortium has now written to GPs in Harwich giving a cast-iron guarantee that the town 's hospital and casualty services are safe . |
| 17 | The third friend from those days , Ian Mason , has now emigrated to Canada . |
| 18 | The first volume of what must eventually be one of the great modern biographies , John Richardson 's book was published last year and has now appeared in paperback . |
| 19 | The resulting book , in eight different language versions , has now appeared in Britain , France , Germany , Italy , Spain , Portugal , the Netherlands and Denmark . |
| 20 | Elizabeth Francis has now moved to St. Anne 's where she holds the Evans Pritchard Junior Research Fellowship in the Social Anthropology of Africa . |
| 21 | Barclay 's has now moved to al purpose built new regional headquarters at One Moorfields selling Martin 's Building to Carroll and leasing back the ground floor banking hall . |
| 22 | His son , also Leonard , of Crud-y-Gwynt , Mynydd Isa , near Mold , used to work at BAe as an electrician , although he has now moved to Vauxhall . |
| 23 | Last season there were also two one-cap players at Sussex , by P.W.G. Parker has now moved to Durham ( who incidentally now regularly field a Smith , a Brown and a Jones in the same side : truly a classless county ) . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the Koons retrospective at the Stedelijk , Amsterdam , has now moved to Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark until 28 February . |
| 25 | Perhaps partly because of these frustrations , John Aldis has now moved to Hong Kong ! |
| 26 | Well I , obviously want to try and attend meetings if and when possible , er I 've been to one last week , which basically was er because I do n't feel I 'm qualified to get up and David got up and spoke very well actually , he was always , at the police not neighbourhood watch , er to do with the cascade telephone system which we found out afterwards , after a three quarters hour debate a man came up to Dave afterwards and showed him a memo which said this cascade system has now ceased in November nineteen ninety-two and that was the the abuse on that particular meeting . |
| 27 | The European Commission has now nodded through IBM France SA 's proposed acquisition of Compagnie Generale d'Informatique SA for about $450m in IBM France bonds convertible into IBM Corp shares . |
| 28 | Following the success of his Watercolour Painting Course , Alwyn Crawshaw has now produced on oils which offers the reader 29 lessons . |
| 29 | Following the success of his Watercolour Painting Course , Alwyn Crawshaw has now produced on oils which offers the reader 29 lessons . |
| 30 | Murphy , who has now qualified for Stage III of four world ranking tournaments in Blackpool , looked sharp throughout the match against a player whose grinding style often takes its toll on lesser experienced players . |