Example sentences of "now [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he knew why the moment he entered the old schoolroom , for after allowing him to pass her she closed the door and stood with her back to it , her pale face , now tinged to a deep red , thrust out towards him as she cried , ‘ Think you 're smart , do n't you ? |
| 2 | With planning consent now received for an improved access for the physically handicapped and an extension to provide a parish office and toilet for the disabled , tenders will shortly be invited for the building works . |
| 3 | Dismissals are now explained as an inevitable response to pressures beyond managerial control be they the result of higher taxes to pay for the public finance deficit or the need to introduce even greater levels of mechanization to meet world competition . |
| 4 | In creating the replica pavement , Mr Bob Woodward , a builder by trade , has undertaken such thorough background research that he is now regarded as a leading international expert on Roman mosaics . |
| 5 | About his men , Lancaster is quoted as saying : ‘ A tramway servant is now regarded as a responsible public servant and not , as formerly a drudge ’ . |
| 6 | Gairloch is now regarded as an early Besshi-style Cu-Zn deposit ( Jones and others , 1987 ) . |
| 7 | Swallowed saliva is now regarded as an important mechanism for neutralising acid within the oesophageal lumen and esophageal pH exhibits an incremental increase with repeated swallows . |
| 8 | Similarly , conspicuous consumption or display is now regarded as an acceptable form of behaviour . |
| 9 | They were reactions against what was now regarded as an old-fashioned evolutionism . |
| 10 | The woman , identified as Roberta Jones , is now listed in a serious condition on Sunday night at Harbourview Medical Centre , according to the hospital 's nursing supervisor . |
| 11 | The aircraft had gone , the space it had occupied now filled with a small single-engined plane . |
| 12 | We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way . |
| 13 | That quality has now developed into a tremendous presence . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There was a time when photographs were used merely to break up a page of type , but it 's now developed into a fully-fledged art form of its own , ’ he observes . |
| 15 | What was a traditional farming and market garden community of some 290 population , has now developed into a large sprawling suburban area of over 3,000 , the majority employed in the city of Hull . |
| 16 | Perhaps this has now developed as a whole group drama , with the children playing the townspeople of Hamelin . |
| 17 | In reality , though this was not generally known , Verdun was now guarded by a single line of trenches — and a single line could be penetrated by the enemy with relative ease , whereas two could not . |
| 18 | the idea has now blossomed into a successful mail order business with customers from both the UK and overseas . |
| 19 | The traditional political " families " still vied with each other in pursuance of their particular objectives ; but the old clans of Catholics , monarchists and Falangists were now joined by a new breed of apolitical technocrat and a new kind of Falangist . |
| 20 | They were a group of twelve , mainly Icelandic , but with two Norwegians and a Canadian , and now joined by an English cyclist who pretended , when convenient , to be Welsh , The intended route was up the south-west side of the Öræfajökull , the glacier being climbed during the night , although in June the sun only barely dips below the northern horizon at midnight . |
| 21 | They 've now frequented by an increasing proportion of traders in assumes in many cases a market type of status . |
| 22 | The new latrine now situated in a quiet corner of the orchard has been given a permanent status ; a shithouse clerk has been appointed . |
| 23 | Government spending had already been reviewed and cut substantially , but the time had now come for a great public gesture ; this was supplied by the appointment of the Geddes Committee , a typical Lloyd George manoeuvre using businessmen instead of MPs or ministers . |
| 24 | Well it 's now come under a general invited round to us all |
| 25 | Central to Thorngumbald was the blacksmith 's shop , hub of working activity for a large area , now rebuilt as a modern garage but still owned by the fourth generation of Willinghams . |
| 26 | Art depends a lot on contrast and in urban areas there is plenty of that — even in a place like Darwin repeatedly bombed by the Japanese in World War 11 and further flattened by Cyclone Tracy in 1974 , now rebuilt as an up-to-date hotelsville in a style of architecture that , trying hard to be modern , succeeds in being already dated . |
| 27 | Funnily enough , Mr Goodfellow now finds himself in a similar situation to the late Leo Fender , having left his original company bearing his name ( now owned as a registered trademark by Lowden ) . |
| 28 | It is now owned by a civic trust , and the royal Lyceum Theatre Company has established a high reputation for its enterprising productions . |
| 29 | The greengrocer 's shop and delicatessen across the street from the apartment , whose number Quinn had obtained from the London telephone directory in the sitting-room cabinet , was called Bradshaw , after the man who had started it , but was now owned by an Indian gentleman called Mr Patel . |
| 30 | The head office was now located in a converted Victorian property on the litterstrewn thoroughfare of Ladbroke Grove , opposite a particularly combative Irish pub . |