Example sentences of "now [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 First , ski-guiding — now widely offered by tour operators .
2 The servants were by now so confused by beer and excitement that they were not sure of anything at all .
3 In this connection it is perhaps significant that the boundary between the parish and Snodland was the old track or Ridgeway , now largely destroyed by chalk quarries , which , keeping to the highest and driest line over the downs is thought to have formed the main east-west route at this period , crossing the River Medway at Holborough as Mr Margery suggested .
4 With the exception of bulk traffic like coal and other minerals , the world 's collection and distribution systems are now largely operated by road .
5 Finally , the 25th section ( now substantially re-enacted by section 49 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ) contains a general provision that in all other matters where there is a conflict or variance between the rules of Law and the rules of Equity the latter are to prevail .
6 The conductance of the fracture system with the original fracture volume V , , now partially filled by crystallisation so that the fraction of V2 representing connected voids is , and with a fracture cementation exponent , saturated with the same Cw , will have a conductance
7 ‘ the concentration on actual or ostensible authority being ‘ given to the husband to act on behalf of the bank ’ may not be a reliable way of applying the test now well established by authority , albeit … that the real question is whether the bank were content to leave it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature upon the charge .
8 ‘ Again , the concentration on actual or ostensible authority being ‘ given to the husband to act on behalf of the bank ’ may not be a reliable way of applying the test now well established by authority , albeit since this judgment was delivered , that the real question is whether the bank were content to leave it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature upon the charge .
9 Whether or not these family resemblances are accurately identified , this kind of inheritance is now firmly established by experience and science .
10 Encouraged by the long minority of the new Stadtholder it helped to influence Dutch policy in a pro-French and anti-British direction during the Seven Years War ( the Orange family , now closely associated by marriage with that of Hanover , was generally pro-British in outlook ) .
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