Example sentences of "[noun pl] now [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These schools now provided a free alternative to expensive private education — so that the number of middle-class children in them rose . |
| 2 | These life peers now play a major role in the day-to-day work of the Lords ; indeed , their presence is essential for the great majority of hereditary peers rarely , if ever , attend . |
| 3 | Most power-tools now have a cordless version , with manufacturers jumping on the convenience bandwagon ( far left ) . |
| 4 | Buxtehude planners are confident that these results are a consequence of the introduction of environmental traffic management , for drivers now have a wider angle of visibility , a shorter time to react and a reduced braking distance . |
| 5 | His public standing rose by 18 points in public opinion polls immediately after Guzmán 's capture , and analysts believed that government-sponsored candidates now stood a good chance of commanding a majority in the Democratic Constituent Congress ( CCD ) to be elected on Nov. 22 [ see p. 39048 ] . |
| 6 | When Newham 's custody of that school ceased , the standards of education were appallingly low , but Her Majesty 's inspectors now report a significant improvement in educational standards there — |
| 7 | Sir Peter Imbert , the Metropolitan Police Commissioner , said : ‘ All our surveillance log books now carry a unique number . |
| 8 | Between Saltfleetby and Theddlethorpe over 1,000 acres of tidal sand , mudflats and saltmarsh , freshwater marsh and sand-dunes now comprise a National Nature Reserve . |
| 9 | Some shoes now boast a split tongue or an elasticated band which holds the tongue in place . |
| 10 | Statutory duties now cover a wider range of special needs groups than was formerly the case . |
| 11 | The widely used BH2 range of microscopes now offers a new fluorescence system with the BH2-RFC attachment . |
| 12 | And that produces further conflict , because the parents now take a different view . |
| 13 | In Britain , we now have three publishing houses committed to women 's writing and at least two of the large publishing companies now carry a separate list for books of special interest to women . |
| 14 | The Elves now had a secure foothold to bring the rest of their army ashore . |
| 15 | This will mean that some individuals now have a different payment date for Council Tax to that they previously had for Community Charge . |
| 16 | The symptoms that he had put up with for 20 years now became a real problem . |
| 17 | The mill and workshops now form a large dwelling as well as holiday homes . |
| 18 | ‘ A-levels now test a huge range of skills , not just knowledge . |
| 19 | The Fens now resemble a gigantic and very profitable grow-bag . |
| 20 | There was a real engineer among them , and my suggestion about telephone work had paid a bonus , for he had installed a phone in the hole , and the watchers now had a direct link with New Scotland Yard . |
| 21 | Most packages now support a full range of European language hyphenation rules making life substantially easier for those working in the international market . |
| 22 | Many 486-based PCs now feature a secondary RAM cache on the motherboard . |
| 23 | VISystems now has a European support office in Darmstadt , Germany , and distributors in both Germany and France . |
| 24 | The intuition is as follows : for given w , increased polarization ( fall in µ ) reduces membership ( MD curve shifts left ) , because some workers now have a lower ta ; and therefore abstain from membership . |
| 25 | The figures now form a tight sculptural group and the space around and behind them is limited and seems to press in upon them . |
| 26 | It 's a national scandal that senior managers now take a bigger share of the NHS pay packet than the entire ambulance staff . |
| 27 | Senior managers now take a bigger chunk of the NHS pay packet than the entire ambulance staff . |
| 28 | Lead managers now run a computerised book of bids , which ( unlike in the past ) they share with the issuer . |
| 29 | In the amount of business that they do , and the number of services they provide , the library suppliers now play a major role — some would say , too large — in the development of library services . |
| 30 | Farmers now get a decent price for their crop . |