Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] now the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 2 | Sadly , the forests of Sulawesi , as everywhere else in the Oriental Region , are under threat from the axe and now the logger 's chainsaw . |
| 3 | Security has been tight at the court , but there has been one threat against a juror , a bomb threat against the judge and now the firebombing directed at a key witness . |
| 4 | The art trade has argued effectively against this provision and now the Commission and the Portuguese Presidency acknowledge that special arrangements should be applicable to sales by public auction . |
| 5 | First the Gulf War and now the recession . |
| 6 | The day had been cool and overcast with intermittent drizzle but now the sky had begun to clear and the dappled clouds made a patchwork of blue and pale grey with a hint of hazy gold . |
| 7 | This completes a successful nine months for Gourlay which has seen her become the Scottish indoor and outdoor singles champion and now the world champion . |
| 8 | There was never any prospect of that happening and now the commitment has been downgraded to one whereby work will have started on all the sites by that date . |
| 9 | KC ‘ What worried me most er at the beginning and now the treat … and now fading to a great degree , was the extraordinary presence of another absence er of another kind of speaking . |
| 10 | Nay-sayers are more likely to surface in the middle than at the beginning because now the project is more of a threat , more a challenge to their own perceived status . |
| 11 | But that charge was thrown out at Gloucester Crown Court last month and now the prosecution has dropped a further assault charge . |
| 12 | It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda . |
| 13 | Then , in contrast , there is the Ottoneum , originally a baroque theatre and now the home of the Natural History museum . |
| 14 | Or maybe he knew that the Mob had files of their own , that Meyer Lansky , the one-time bootlegger and now the gambling mogul , had pictures which could ruin him : Edgar and Clyde , for once unambiguously tangled . |
| 15 | We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that . |
| 16 | The changes are marked particularly by modifications to the Local Authority Training Grants Scheme and the timed targeting of Education Support Grants , a decreasing percentage of local-authority expenditure received from central government and now the introduction of the Community Charge . |
| 17 | Whoever was on duty would move gently any part of the affected limb , trying as they did so to persuade Jimbo that now the pain was gone he might — I did not dare to say ‘ would ’ — be free soon to walk normally . |
| 18 | But her daughter has been placed into foster care and now the father is making an all-out bid to get legal custody . |
| 19 | ‘ I have put my Spirit upon him ; he will bring forth justice to the nations ’ says God through the prophet And now the Spirit had come , and Mark 's account of the baptism makes it abundantly clear that he sees Jesus as the Messianic Son and the Suffering Servant , equipped or his … stupendous task with the Spirit of God promised for the end-time . |
| 20 | Like virgins to the sacrificial altar , they followed Molly Malone to the place where it all happened ; where Wrens must learn to live in a men 's world because now the war was nearer to them than it had ever been . |
| 21 | Bemac 's workforce has fallen from 215 to 140 in the past year and now the firm has appointed a consultant to advise on the restructuring of the company . |
| 22 | Card fraud is costing the industry £165 million a year and now the battle against it is taking a hi tec turn . |
| 23 | Habitat , once Wallingford 's largest employer made staff redundant last year and now the town 's largest employer is the local supermarket . |
| 24 | On the N side the square at No. 1/269 is a low attractive building , originally a brewery , U Halánků and now the entrance to the Náprstek Museum or Museum of Australasian , African and American Cultures . |
| 25 | ‘ Then the sea and now the plant world . |
| 26 | Discussing informed consent , Foden & Beauchamp ( 1986 ) remind us that the nurse/patient and doctor/patient relationship used to be founded on trust but now the trend is for mutual partnership , patient involvement and patient autonomy . |
| 27 | Equation ( 8.22 ) is the expression for the combinatorial entropy of mixing of an athermal polymer solution and comparison with equation ( 8.7 ) shows that they are similar in form except for the fact that now the volume fraction is found to be the most convenient way of expressing the entropy change , rather than the mole fraction used for small molecules . |
| 28 | Pu our own Putney has been awarded the medal of honour , sixth highest medal of honour for erm services to the Danish industry and he 's coming over and they 're having a a caviar and champagne reception at the Danish Embassy and now the Queen of Denmark Queen Margarite is coming over . |
| 29 | The South Bank Show was a help in understanding how and why Brook has spent 15 years bringing this great poem to the stage and now the screen . |
| 30 | There are many who will never forget that sad time but now the East Lindsey coastline has a happy atmosphere ; sometimes throbbing with the joy of summer seaside thrills but more constantly pulsating gently in natural tranquility , . |