Example sentences of "[noun pl] now [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British homes now contain more than 20 million cassette recorders . |
| 2 | The town 's factories now produce more than three quarters of all the wooden chairs made in Britain . |
| 3 | There has been some lobbying for the manuscripts now to stay exactly where they have always been , which is in the princely Hofbibliothek in Donaueschingen , surrounded by the greatest private library of printed books ( 500 incunables and 130,000 later works ) in Germany . |
| 4 | The Russians now have more than 150 major factories building ships , aircraft , missiles , armoured vehicles , artillery , ammunition and explosives . |
| 5 | Lenders are looking to the level of profits now seen rather than on the prospect of ‘ jam tomorrow ’ . |
| 6 | Officially reported cases of gonorrhoea , syphilis and other venereal diseases now number more than 375,000 , which surely understates things . |
| 7 | Over the medium term , however , the new Teachers ' Pay Review Body is likely to make teaching markedly better paid — nearly half of all secondary school teachers now earn more than £20,000 a year — which will take much wind out of the NUT 's sails . |
| 8 | ( See further Appendix B. ) A slight amendment is therefore needed to the formulae given in ( 37 ) , with the intensional patterns realised by the surface structures containing ordinary attributives , predicatives , and postnominal attributives now represented respectively as in : ( 75 ) |
| 9 | Yet haemophiliacs now comprise more than 60% of Japan 's total AIDS population . |