Example sentences of "now [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olney , 22 , who cost £700,000 from Aston Villa during the summer , has now completed a three-match ban from last season and has been added to the squad which hit five goals against Nottingham Forest last Saturday . |
| 2 | Unless you now make a determined effort to exert your authority and independence , you will be stuck in the same rut and feeling hurt , angry , isolated and out of step with partners or close companions . |
| 3 | The three now make a valuable contribution to the IWM 's collection of naval aeroplanes on display at Duxford . |
| 4 | I have now received a polite letter from B.T. together with a phone card worth 30p . |
| 5 | The EPLF , however , now sought a UN-sponsored referendum on the future of Eritrea . |
| 6 | The province 's four main tournament organisations have broken away from the controlling Northern Ireland Karate Board and have now formed a rival umbrella group of their own . |
| 7 | The North Oxford brigade had by now formed a coherent clique at one end of the room , separated by a buffer zone of bare carpet from the jolly tradesmen . |
| 8 | The Burnham Committee , which had since the First World War been responsible for determining the salaries of teachers , now produced a unified scheme , making no formal distinction between the remuneration of teachers in Primary , secondary modern , or grammar schools . |
| 9 | We 're going to stay with racing now to see a sporting dream come true … |
| 10 | As we 've mentioned before , Davie Phillips is now on Real [ a company with connections to New Deal UK ] , they 're now producing a no-pro deck called a Blank Stare . |
| 11 | He now launches a parallel attack on the idea that individuals are by nature the sort of creatures who can come to know things through their experience of the external world . |
| 12 | Fresh from wringing an admission of guilt from multinational competitor Hitachi ( New Scientist , 17 February , p 428 ) , the firm is now accusing a small band of its former employees in Silicon Valley of stealing trade secrets used in transferring information to and from computer discs . |
| 13 | In London an area forming an arc east of Charing Cross , from Lambeth through Docklands to Islington now represents a major concentration of deprivation , the dominant characteristics being high rates of unemployment ( racially concentrated ) , high population density , a poverty of housing stock and a disadvantaged environment for a population with its distinctive sub-class of welfare dependents . |
| 14 | But since that time , his name has grown in stature and now represents a multi-million pound business the globe . |
| 15 | Once you have chosen a suitable frame and you know which pressed flowers are at your disposal , you must now make a definite decision about the exact colour scheme of your design by choosing the backing for the picture itself |
| 16 | A lot of the points discussed had also been considered by the cricket committee and we shall now make a thorough investigation . ’ |
| 17 | An expert can now make a final determination about the construction of documents provided he asks himself the right question . |
| 18 | Foreign relations now became a major factor in the final fall of the Tokugawa , whose impotence to resist foreign demands became apparent to all . |
| 19 | Electricity , indeed , now became a major loophole in the rationing system by which common sacrifices were imposed on all . |
| 20 | The symptoms that he had put up with for 20 years now became a real problem . |
| 21 | The day was declared National Reconciliation Day at a ceremony held in San Salvador , the capital , and attended by President Alfredo Cristiani Burkard , senior government officials and military officers , and leaders of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , which now became a political party . |
| 22 | What had been occasional in the fifteenth century now became a general rule . |
| 23 | The mass rally now became a powerful expression of national feeling . |
| 24 | What had started out as a quest for metallic hydrogen now became a serious hunt for fusion . |
| 25 | Talbot Square now became a focal point on the tramway system , where the new town routes met the busy Promenade track , newly relaid and extended to the Gynn . |
| 26 | At this point the excitation switches almost instantaneously from phase A to phase B and the motor now produces a positive torque , causing the system to accelerate towards the phase B equilibrium position at 8=2n/3p . |
| 27 | HCIMA has now developed a full range of distance learning material which can be used in a variety of ways for those seeking supervisory or management qualifications without full or even part-time attendance at college . |
| 28 | Cameron now expected a glancing reference to Exodus 32 and a figuring of Aaron the idolator as the rebel and troublemaker who seduced the honest Israelites with the golden calf of dangerous principles . |
| 29 | Two of ACE 's founding fathers , Compaq Computer Corp and Santa Cruz Operation Inc are now being widely tipped to stymie their respective MIPS-based ACE development work ; not just because MIPS is about to lose its independence to Silicon Graphics Inc , but also because the Intel Corp 80586 ( P5 ) bandwagon is now gathering a full head of steam , whilst DEC is also doing its damnedest to undermine the whole MIPS effort with its Alpha RISC ( see below ) . |
| 30 | SCO 's Doug Michels claims , ‘ You can now build a PC-based workstation , server or departmental mini that will outrun virtually any computer based on today 's Risc microprocessors or proprietary CPUs . ’ |