Example sentences of "now [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last I came to the start of the mad little road to Lochinver , I followed it over the bleak moorland , Stac Polly now appearing as a black spire in a halo of sunlight . |
| 2 | The ultimate situation would be that such as Rank Xerox are now operating on a small-scale experimental basis whereby some senior staff work for the company from home on a free-lance sub-contractor basis . |
| 3 | The UDA/UFF is now operating under a reorganised leadership which was dealt a heavy blow by the Stevens Inquiry into security force collusion with loyalist paramilitaries . |
| 4 | West Custom Marine are now establishing in a modern yard nest to Lymington station . |
| 5 | Ginny was now living on a part-time basis with David , Leo 's son by his first marriage ; Leo hoped that Ginny and David would marry and produce a host of little Quests for him to dote on in his old age . |
| 6 | The outcome was that John moved in with his father , who was now living in a pleasant flat at Houghton Heights , Johannesburg . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ We are now living in a post-apartheid era and it is about time member of the Labour group came to realise that . ’ |
| 8 | Today , many people who might earlier this century have been in hospital are now living in a residential home . |
| 9 | Mike Bettsworth , a freelance writer and Press consultant now living in a converted chapel in the small village of Bere Alston , on the banks of the Tamar Valley at the edge of Dartmoor , says it is the slowness of life in the West and the wide open spaces which appeal to him . |
| 10 | And one of one of the things that I 've got on a regular basis is the many of the things Harlow Council put on like pop concerts country and western have actually been used by people who who perhaps live outside of Harlow so the Council are now looking at a charging policy but also we should also gon na introduce into the theatre is the leisure card which actually includes that the people actually live in the town local and the reproductional sort of show if they can do so they should buy . |
| 11 | A CANINE hero who helped save a dog which was dying from rat poison is now looking for a good home . |
| 12 | They are now looking for a good buyer who would be willing to continue their lifetime 's work , and either buy the stock separately , or as a whole package complete with factories . |
| 13 | As Gargy Patel reports , he 's now looking for a new challenge . |
| 14 | Gorham and Dudley , who demonstrated the prototype last week , are now looking for a British company with expertise in optics and electronics to invest £250 000 . |
| 15 | Therefore I am now looking for a larger tank . |
| 16 | Leigh is now looking for a larger space . |
| 17 | Subsequent attempts to model this in terms of winds driven by Alfvén waves met with limited success , but interest is now developing in a theoretical approach involving reflection of Alfvén waves . |
| 18 | and now conspiring with a senior employee of the council , and of course , . |
| 19 | At the ‘ top end ’ in the open space between the design studio and the pattern room , the car park has been upgraded and extended , covering the sunken stream now passing underneath a bright shiny new tarmac surface . |
| 20 | She is now growing into a confident speaker , prepared to say what she thinks . |
| 21 | The traffic along Western Avenue had been quiet , and it was only an hour and a quarter after leaving Oxford that Lewis was speaking to the Night Sister on the third floor of the hospital , a neat , competent-looking brunette who appeared rather more concerned about the unprecedented police interest in matters than in the medical condition of her most recent road-casualty , now lying behind a curtained bed in Harley Ward . |
| 22 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 23 | He is now lying in a military cemetery near Florence . ’ |
| 24 | Such observations have given rise to the notion of the ‘ invulnerable child ’ and are now leading to a radical re-appraisal of the results of risk research , with a shift of emphasis towards trying to understand the factors that enable some individuals to survive , or even profit from , their disposition to insanity . |
| 25 | His voice was now re-forming into a pleasant tenor and his clamp of a memory could breeze him through Welsh songs and hymns , music-hall ditties and comic specialities half the night . |
| 26 | and erm you know , she 'd come from Hampshire apparently and she an an yo you know , er we got talking about ma and she 's taken her child away from the local school and sen , is now going to a little private school up the Tin Valley , near Tingrace apparently . |
| 27 | Sometimes the simple national ensign is no longer enough : in Corsica , now going through a violent secessionist campaign , it is advisable to have both the French ensign and the Corsican flag . |
| 28 | The family are now celebrating at a secret location . |
| 29 | The lands of the lord of the manor at Hinton were reallocated to the peasants in the sixteenth century , and the manor house , now remaining as a moated site , was abandoned . |
| 30 | Hopefully the new home which you are now considering as a prospective purchase will be suitable for your needs in every way , but it may well be that a need for some renovation or refurbishment is indicated from the surveyor 's report or that you will wish to make improvements or alterations of your own . |