Example sentences of "[conj] now [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Fiendishly clever computer trading of financial instruments using hideously complex algorithms is all the rage on Wall Street and increasingly in Tokyo , and now researchers at the London Parallel Applications Centre , based at London 's Queen Mary & Westfield College , are developing special library tools for financial modelling with the support of Digital Equipment Co Ltd and Oxford mathematical library supplier Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd , or NAG . |
2 | The first target tonight will be Brian Close , the former Yorkshire and England captain and now chairman of the cricket sub-committee , on which he is supported by such luminaries as Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott and Bob Platt , all ex-players . |
3 | Sir Arthur Gold , the former president of the European Athletic Association , a life vice-president of the board and now chairman of the British Olympic Association and supported Johnson , saying there had been ‘ wicked distortions ’ . |
4 | According to John Dunster , then a scientist with the AEA and now chairman of the NRPB , the main radioactive cloud travelled south-east across most of England and on over Europe . |
5 | The National Gallery has received letters of support from several international museums and galleries , including Dominique Bozo , director of the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris , Gerard Regnier , director of the Picasso Museum , Paris , and Thomas Messer , director emeritus of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York and now chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery in Prague . |
6 | The initial expression of interest , backed by a ballot of consultants , went to the Yorkshire regional health authority from Mr Bill Shea , an orthopaedic consultant retired from clinical practice and now head of the hospital 's medical management advisory committee . |
7 | And now supermarkets throughout the country are helping the shopper to make more informed choices . |
8 | A sequence of major exhibitions of Max Ernst , de Chirico , Miró and now Magritte at the Hayward Gallery have helped to re-establish the importance of these artists . |
9 | WE 'VE had leaves on the line , snow , iced-up points and now BR in the South East has come up with a new one for explaining delays to trains : Heavy morning dew . |
10 | McGegan has so far produced two Handel operas from Göttingen , Floridante which came out on Hungaroton [ see below — Ed. ] , and now Agrippina on the label with which he is most commonly associated : Harmonia Mundi . |
11 | There was sympathy too for Floyd , who at 49 had the chance of becoming the oldest champion and now runner-up for the second time in three years . |
12 | The evenings will be hosted by David English , a cricketer ( formerly with Middlesex and now captain of the Eric Clapton XI ) ; journalist ( on the London Evening News ) ; actor ( Lisztomania , the stiff-upper-lip Captain Andrew in A Bridge Too Far ) ; scriptwriter ( the Timothy Dalton vehicle Hawks ) ; and author ( of The Legend , an animated book on the Bee-Gees , and of the children 's Bunbury Tales ) . |
13 | Some Conservatives , astonishingly enough , had even visualized the return to the Treasury of Roy Jenkins , a Labour minister until 1976 and now President of the European Commission in Brussels . |
14 | Randy Sandone , formerly executive vice-president of Addamax and now president of the new 16-man firm , Argus Systems Group Inc , said that Addamax was finding it impossible to do business because of the lawsuit . |
15 | Randy Sandone , formerly executive vice president of Addamax and now president of the new 16-man firm , Argus Systems Group Inc , said that Addamax was finding it impossible to do business because of the lawsuit . |
16 | Men and women were still free to choose good from evil , though the corruption rooted in their very nature tugged them towards their captor and now ruler of the earth . |
17 | The move continues the influx of international coaches into Britain , a group which now includes talent from three continents — Olga Morozova from Russia , Ian Barclay from Australia and now Walsh from the United States . |
18 | The first term in ( 8.56 ) , shown by curve 1 , is merely an expression of the Flory-Huggins theory where X decreases constantly with rising temperature , but now inclusion of the new free volume term , shown by curve 2 , modifies the behaviour of χ . |
19 | Two years ago , use of the rave-dance drug Ecstasy was virtually unknown in Wales , but now 5pc of the fifth formers questioned said they had tried it . |