Example sentences of "now [verb] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But having given Labour false hopes , will the media now make sure that Labour suffers from false despair ? |
| 2 | It now looks likely that pension schemes will only have to backdate any equalisation of benefits between men and women to those in service on or after 17 May 1990 . |
| 3 | The napkin now weighed heavy as death in my hands . |
| 4 | Although the concept of tumour cells producing degradative enzymes is appealing , particularly in the light of Liotta 's three step theory of invasion , it is now becoming clear that production and regulation of metalloproteinases in health is a delicate host derived balance . |
| 5 | If it now seems self-evident that monitoring of the global environment is necessary , indeed is even vital , the prediction of what is likely to happen is almost as important : the 170 000 people in the Maldives are understandably worried about the prospect of global sea-level change since no part of the islands is more than 2 m above present sea-level ! |
| 6 | These have dramatically altered and of course improved archaeologists ' knowledge about the duration of various episodes within pre-history , and it now seems possible that archaeology , and particularly prehistoric archaeology , will eventually have a dated historical sequence as clear as that used by historians . |
| 7 | Many say that the donkeys from Poitou in France are particularly suitable for siring mules , perhaps because they are particularly large , but it now seems doubtful that size is of any special virtue in obtaining the hybrid . |
| 8 | Many trade union studies units in colleges of further education have now closed ; trade union tutors from colleges , extra-mural departments and the WEA are now spending all or part of their time in organising and teaching courses for unemployed people and others . |
| 9 | People living in towns and cities can hardly be denied their quite reasonable and legitimate desire either to reside in or to visit the countryside and without them many villages would now lie abandoned and semi — derelict . |
| 10 | Frequently , however , items that now have low and/or back vowels , are given with [ Ε ] : these include rether for ‘ rather ’ ( a rural Scots residue ) , e for a in single nasal environments in polysyllables such as exemine , Jenuary and in nasal cluster environments such as demsel , exemple , Entrim ( 'Antrim' ) , slent , bendy ( 'bandy' ) , brench . |
| 11 | Nowell , a solicitor , and his wife Penny have taken thirty years to develop the lovely garden at Baubles which now boasts ornamental and wildlife ponds and a wide variety of trees , shrubs , a tennis court and a swimming pool . |