Example sentences of "now [vb pp] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That what I always call a family , is now referred to a lot a lot as a family . |
| 2 | Matters have now come to a head . |
| 3 | A most distinctive bird , formerly widespread in N Africa , but now confined to a portion of central Morocco between the oueds Bou Regreg and the upper Oum-el-Rbia ; also found in S France . |
| 4 | Curtis is now confined to a wheelchair after a stage accident in 1990 but this album — great value at £7.99 for CD and £4.99 for cassette — reminds us how good he was . |
| 5 | The government and the TUC were now committed to a concordat to bring inflation down to 5 per cent over three years , while new TUC guidelines were issued over picketing and the operation of the closed shop . |
| 6 | In the mud , which the shelling had now turned to a consistency of sticky butter , troops stumbled and fell repeatedly ; cursing in low undertones , as if fearful of being overheard by the enemy who relentlessly pursued them with his shells at every step . |
| 7 | Now applied to a form of footwear , this term originally referred to the tapes or straps used to fasten a shoe over the foot or round the ankle . |
| 8 | Labour has now moved to a position of adopting EEC laws and institutions as weapons against Conservative economic policy . |
| 9 | The Schedule has now grown to a total of 5,600 sites in Scotland , with over 300 being added each year . |
| 10 | Er , the I I also make the point , that er , my understanding is having now talked to a number of the other C A B's , that in fact they were looking to Thamesdown money advice centre because this money was actually to replace funds that previously had been er , available through the Allied Dunbar sponsorship scheme , and which has , which I gather was withdrawn er , at very short notice , and they were looking to Thamesdown to er provide that support and resource as a county resource , and I I therefore felt that it was right to bring it forward . |
| 11 | Banbridge Council has now agreed to a request that the bog be designated as in the area of special scientific interest on account of its wild flowers , fauna and geological features . |
| 12 | The company has long-standing permission to commence operations , but has now agreed to a government request for an environmental impact assessment , the result of which is expected soon . |
| 13 | Among her achievements was writing the school song , which is now sung to a tune composed by Miss R. C. Evans , music mistress at the school from 1924 to 1949 . |
| 14 | Volunteers from Spokes have now contributed to a number of path-building projects , and for most of these I have acted as the co-ordinator . |
| 15 | Now reduced to a shell with news that members are believed to have backed out of providing their $3.5m dues ( CI No 2,143 ) , the organisation must now offer its testing services on other chip architectures if it is to survive in any form . |
| 16 | Now reduced to a shell with news that members are believed to have backed out of providing their $3.5m dues — see front page — the organisation must now offer its testing services on other chip architectures if it is to survive in any form ( UX Nos 424 , 429 ) . |
| 17 | Swan Hunters was reprivatized in January 1986 and is now reduced to a work force of some 3000 and one building berth at Wallsend , although other yards are being used for preliminary fabrication . |
| 18 | Once found throughout the Yangtze , as well as the adjacent Futon River , the baiji , 2.5 metres ( 8 feet ) long , is now reduced to a handful of sub-groups . |
| 19 | This means the account client , calling on his ex-directory priority line , is now linked to a cab in his area by computer and the taxi despatched to pick-up in seconds . |
| 20 | The perverted originality of Iago 's ruse , now linked to a cause , thereby loses its lurid gleam . |
| 21 | At the foot of the lane stands a most interesting little building , formerly associated with Frogmarsh , although now converted to a house . |
| 22 | The hall at the bottom of the stairs was a tiny square , a door on one side opened to what had been designed as the best parlour , but was now converted to a waiting-room for the surgery , which was a lean-to structure at the back . |
| 23 | Although now signed to a major , The Wedding Present still retained their parsimonious values . |
| 24 | The newspaper published an article alleging that material distributed from St Botolph 's has included ‘ the kind of stuff you would expect to find in a San Francisco bath-house , not a Church of England ’ , and , more broadly , that ‘ militant clerical homosexuality has now spread to a point where many of the ancient City churches are open pick-up joints . ’ |
| 25 | For the drawing room he printed golden lyres on what has now faded to a gold background , bands of crisp white ivy leaves on brown paper in the study , with dark green stripes on a green background for the dining room . |
| 26 | It is now determined to a degree it never was in the past to put an end to beef intervention being viewed , by the Republic of Ireland in particular , as a market it has a right to supply . |
| 27 | It issued a warning to all shipping to stay outside its territorial waters ( now extended to a distance of 12 miles ( 19 km ) from its coastline ) and more generally outside the ‘ Iranian half of the Gulf up to the median line between the two coasts . |
| 28 | No , a Sierra , a Sierra the whole lot comes up , yes , but they 've now changed to a Sapphire and the Sapphire is just the boot , yeah ? |
| 29 | This is very clear in Masefield 's analysis of one such romantic hero , the almost impossibly self-denying Captain Margaret , who has vowed his life to the service of a woman long loved and now married to a villain : |
| 30 | ‘ You Bring Me Flowers ’ is more of that adolescent yell now married to a punch and swagger light years from schoolyard bravado . |