Example sentences of "now [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 2 | This was well captured by George Orwell who , in Coming up for air ( 1939 ) , describes the return of George Bowling , after 18 unimaginative years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda , and now shaken by the fear of a future war , returns to the village of his childhood : Lower Binfield . |
| 3 | He envisages that a change in outlook may derive from appreciation of the complex event sequences that new techniques have now exposed in the Quaternary ; from appraisal of the classical models of change to accommodate the realization that extreme rapidity of change now has to be considered when evaluating chronological biotal and geomorphological processes ; from adjustment of geomorphology to new knowledge of Quaternary change such as rate of ice sheet growth and decay ; and similar adjustment of biogeography and of palaeoclimatology . |
| 4 | Relatively few influential activists would now quarrel with the recognition that markets are an effective way of generating wealth and indicating consumer preferences . |
| 5 | Her wrists were by now fastened to the post , and she was helpless . |
| 6 | ‘ Lafayette ’ may have been the name of a French noble woman , but it now refers to a brand new and stunning range of carpets launched by Stoddard Templeton . |
| 7 | The steel stanchions will now disappear with the net supported by ropes and a pole . |
| 8 | Putting strands from each side into curl rags , she said , ‘ Now sit by the fire and brush the rest dry , while I collect the eggs . ’ |
| 9 | The chairs now sit in the corner of a bedroom by a window , bringing a touch of Continental elegance to an otherwise very English interior . |
| 10 | The loop is now formed around the bobbin case , and the thread drawn back through the needle by the take-up lever usually found on the front of the machine . |
| 11 | That what I always call a family , is now referred to a lot a lot as a family . |
| 12 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Oct. 23 was also sceptical of the Sunday Times report , claiming that it ran counter to the " general view in Damascus that it is the president 's son Basel al-Assad> who is now favoured for the succession " . |
| 13 | Their movement was direct and purposeful , quite unlike the earlier , haphazard approach of those who were now gathered in the ditch . |
| 14 | The name Piercea is , however , now treated as a synonym of Rivina . |
| 15 | My mum and Mrs Quigley were now ritting on the arm of the sofa , their eyes glued to the screen , as Quigley paced around the room . |
| 16 | Safely buried , Osiris now arose from the grave to train his son Horus for the punishment of Seth . |
| 17 | That is a principle which is now honoured in the breach , most notably in the power extended to police officers to issue instructions to prevent an apprehended breach of the peace , a power which apparently is subject to very little effective judicial scrutiny or control . |
| 18 | Inland is the great lowland plain of the Levels — once a marshy sea but now drained by the ruler — straight ‘ rhynes ’ . |
| 19 | Dr. Ethelwynn Trewavas , well-known to cichlid keepers for her work on African Cichlids , and I are now collaborating on a paper on this subject . |
| 20 | By 1980 , recombinant-DNA had declined as a burning public issue in the US and the character of remaining concern , now limited to the cognoscente , had shifted . |
| 21 | Now pick on a word which describes your new self-image ( e.g. winner , adventurer , sparkler , powerhouse , inventor , joybringer , enthusiast , philosopher ) . |
| 22 | A child , named Lewis after his father , was born to Goram and his wife 18 months ago , and added another stabilising dimension to the life of a player now consumed by the need to make the most of the gifts that were handed down from father to son . |
| 23 | Whether or not the Commission had now fallen under the influence of the CEGB , it seemed taken by surprise when the Scottish Friends of the Earth invited Dr Joachim Puhe from Professor Ulrich 's team at Gottingen University to survey British sites ‘ likely ’ to show forest decline . |
| 24 | Hairy cell leukaemia is now regarded as a variant of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and has been grouped with it . |
| 25 | The ideal manager is now regarded as a coach who helps others develop their skills and can act as a role model , rather than as an authoritarian figure issuing orders by virtue of his or her overt status . |
| 26 | Today elegans and livingstonii are still considered valid , but lanisticola is now regarded as a synonym of livingstonii , and ‘ livingstonii likoma ’ as possibly a further synonym of the same species . |
| 27 | They add : ‘ A little touch of the old Tory pragmatism would have avoided what is now regarded as a policy fiasco . ’ |
| 28 | The appointment of a non-computer person , Louis Gerstner , as the new chief executive , now regarded as a near-certainty , did nothing to improve sentiment , and late on Tuesday , the shares tumbled $3.125 to $51.125 , fuelled by a profits warning from Amdahl Corp . |
| 29 | The ex-MetropolitaN Feltham cars followed their ex-L.U.T. brethren to Telford Avenue and some were allocated to Brixton Hill depôt which was now regarded as an annexe to Telford Avenue and had no traverser . |
| 30 | Central Asia was now regarded as the cradle of humanity , a view endorsed through into the 1930s by H. F. Osborn and other eminent paleontologists . |