Example sentences of "now [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years of waiting , building work is now due to start on Stream Bank Cottage . |
| 2 | It is now possible to get on CD-ROM everything from the Yellow Pages to a civil engineering database . |
| 3 | He was a big , bald man who had toed the papist line for the past few years under Mary , and was now willing to return to Anglicanism should that be the wish of his Bishop . |
| 4 | ‘ Football on the continent has changed and the results in both groups of the Champions League show that sides are now willing to attack at home or in their away matches . ’ |
| 5 | If the new version of events is what they are now prepared to say on oath , you must accept it and reassess your case in the light of that knowledge . |
| 6 | One in three marriages is now likely to end in divorce and 60 per cent will involve children under 16 . |
| 7 | A further cut in base rates to 6% is now likely to stay on ice till next year . |
| 8 | Mr Delors is now likely to come under pressure to quit his Pounds 120,000-a-year job as commission president . |
| 9 | In May , Harvey wrote to say that he and his wife were now fit to return to duty . |
| 10 | This is processor-independent stuff , according to Heath , who says most Reduced Instruction Set Computing architectures already share common notions in these areas and most are now able to deal with software that is written to either Big Endian or Little Endian byte ordering styles . |
| 11 | This is processor-independent stuff , according to Heath , who says most Reduced Instruction Set Computing ( RISC ) architectures already share common notions in these areas and most are now able to deal with software that is written to either Big Endian or Little Endian byte ordering styles . |
| 12 | His strong , demanding fingers interrogated the lymph glands in my neck and armpits while Kenneth , now able to converse with authority on the subject , told him about John Habeshaw 's visit and our newly-arrived-at decision to visit Stanford University . |
| 13 | There is obviously something wrong with a portrayal of children as totally lacking in reason until they leap out of bed on their tenth birthday announcing that they are now able to act on principle . |
| 14 | Since then I have progressed and I am now able to waitress with confidence . |
| 15 | Deng Xiaoping , the moderniser , had survived several purges and was now able to rise to power and take centre stage . |
| 16 | After the completion of the Ring cycle , the Berlin orchestra now able to compete in territory that was once the special preserve of its Viennese cousin , Karajan both consolidated and extended the repertory during the 1970s , the music-making continuing to intensify both tonally , and emotionally as Karajan became older and more and more subject to personal trials and privations . |
| 17 | It is now essential to hold in mind that a femtoskirt ends fifteen inches above , and an attoskirt eighteen inches above the knee . |
| 18 | ‘ Just as it is now difficult to conceive of marketing without measurement , a PR agency seeking to change the perception of its clients … will begin by quantifying the scale of the problem … and the effect of its activities over time . ’ |
| 19 | Departments are now obliged to review from time to time the bodies they sponsor , and have received instructions that — whatever the precise degree of independence — the minister is answerable to Parliament for whether the body is working efficiently and economically . |
| 20 | We are now ready to examine in detail the assumptions in Marx 's and Engels 's work concerning the evolution of social aspects of human society . |