Example sentences of "now [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Holyhead road at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch , now mercifully abbreviated to Llanfair P.G. , is a white toll-house on the former turnpike road , part of the new Holyhead route engineered by Telford ( q.v . ) . |
| 2 | The move is Zurich 's response to structural changes in the insurance market which threaten a ruinous price war in the familiar ‘ off-the-shelf ’ products that are now widely sold to households and companies . |
| 3 | This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion . |
| 4 | The international sympathy achieved by the Palestinians as a result of the intifada was now largely transferred to Israel , widely commended for its policy of " restraint " in the face of numerous Iraqi missile attacks . |
| 5 | Even at the end of the 1980s , while the British left was now largely reconciled to membership of Community , the British remained hesitant Europeans . |
| 6 | ECT is now largely restricted to patients suffering from ‘ endogenous ’ depression — often working class women who become depressed , even though no dramatic misfortune has befallen them . |
| 7 | Although expert determination would be entirely suitable , the tradition of the trade prefers arbitration and disputes of this sort are now generally referred to commodity arbitrations , discussed in 15.6.5 . |
| 8 | In January 1967 , there was the famous Human Be-in at Golden Gate park in San Francisco , and Allen Ginsberg , now suitably converted to Buddhism blew on a conch shell and chanted Hindu sayings and recommended that every healthy American over the age of fourteen should try LSD once . |
| 9 | Kodak world-wide is now totally committed to TQM . |
| 10 | The increasing stocking density evident in Powys over the last 3 decades also explains the broadleaved woodland regeneration problem and clarifies why such woods are now often grazed to billiard table-like turf when in the more distant past grazing levels must have been low enough to allow regeneration . |
| 11 | The hardest task for his subordinates is to decide what the phrase ( now often shortened to NWO and not to be confused with the airline that used to be called Northwest Orient ) might mean . |
| 12 | The Orion Quartet , now well known to audiences throughout Northern Ireland for their recitals and evening ‘ Soirees ’ , are delighted to be returning to Bangor with another ‘ MUSIC BOX ’ series featuring guest players from the Ulster Orchestra . |
| 13 | The Scots , perhaps only now fully acclimatised to Australasia , trained for an hour at Daramalan College before their 35-minute flight to Sydney , where they were due to collect reinforcements in the shape of scrum-half Andy Nicol and forward Derek Turnbull , before their four-hour flight to Fiji . |
| 14 | It is a handsome style , now sadly relegated to holidays in the desert or hunting excursions . |
| 15 | Elizabeth was not altogether in favour of the last choice but as Lamb was now officially betrothed to Martha , she had given in . |
| 16 | Now happily married to actress Gwen Humble , 38 , Ian found himself studying an action replay of his early days as a hell-raising Hollywood star as it ran through his mind — and he winced at what he saw . |