Example sentences of "now [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The front two pews were removed ; a raised platform was built for the Communion table and choir who now sit inside the new , straight Communion rail . |
| 2 | Local libraries and Citizen 's Advice Bureaux hold lists of solicitors practising in a locality and many firms now advertise in the Yellow Pages . |
| 3 | Blue chip shares now sell on a phenomenal 37 times their earnings — but that is half as phenomenal as the ratio of three years ago . |
| 4 | We have made real progress in developing our non-oil related businesses where sales now account for a good proportion of the Group 's turnover |
| 5 | Publisher 's themed series now account for a significant part of the market , but are too many thought up by designers and marketing departments rather than horticulturalists ? |
| 6 | The net result is that enterprises with some form of linkage to the global market now account for the largest part of the global production structure — in raw materials , manufactures and services . |
| 7 | Fear on the inside and now fear on the outside as well . |
| 8 | Should not the right hon. Gentleman now apologise for the false promises that he made in 1991 ? |
| 9 | Mr. Michael : In the light of the White Paper , what importance should the public in Wales now place on the 10-year plans being prepared by health authorities and considered by his Department ? |
| 10 | The updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost . |
| 11 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern : too many companies decide that if the product is having a tough time in the market , the answer is to change the packaging , and DEC is tarting up its famous lower-case ‘ digital ’ logo , which has stood the company in excellent stead since 1957 ; the updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost . |
| 12 | Foreign Offices of a modern kind , specialized in their functions , subdivided ( usually on a largely geographical basis ) into departments with still more specialized duties and employing considerable numbers of experts of all kinds , now appear for the first time in the major European capitals . |
| 13 | YOUR favourite Mr. Men characters now appear in a new show , Mr. Men in Happyland . |
| 14 | ‘ The British diet has started to change , but a far greater rate of progress can be achieved if we now shift to a positive message about what to eat , rather than going down the old road of saying do n't eat certain foods . |
| 15 | ‘ No , no , I now rank as an important contact , a senior opinion-former , or so she flatteringly told me . |
| 16 | Their manners now border on the vulgar , and they are terribly arrogant . ’ |
| 17 | Although few people now reside in the immediate locality , it is a gathering point for young people , who hang around the shopping area and occupy the bench seats located in a landscaped approach . |
| 18 | Every note , every school report , every passing wheeze of the P'daytabird is here ; and since , by a strange series of chances , the Lewis Papers now reside in an air-conditioned cavern in the suburbs of Chicago , we may suppose that they will survive for ever , perhaps long after Oxford and Ulster have been lost to sight . |
| 19 | Does he accept that the Government are reducing to fewer than 300 ships the number of vessels that now sail under the red ensign and that they have treated with utter contempt the red ensign , which has served this country well in times of peace and war ? |
| 20 | They now worship at a new hall , but the pastor admits that many older villagers miss the little chapel . |
| 21 | There are many prostitutes who now collaborate with the revolutionary organizations . |
| 22 | In Wall Street journals now speak of an irreversible decline of the middleman — the suave dealmaker who carves a chunk out of the real workers ' profits by flitting with bright notions from door to door . |
| 23 | The SDLP need not now worry about Sinn Féin breathing on its neck , and Ulster Unionist sources now speak with a little disdain of Mr Paisley 's ranting style . |
| 24 | Few Marxists now hold to the traditional claim that the state is nothing but the executive committee of the bourgeoisie . |
| 25 | Many of us in the industry feel that British Gas have broken the agreement by altering er the review dates , now put on a three monthly basis rather than a six monthly . |
| 26 | Fax machines now mix with the deep armchairs and ancient oils of the clubhouse , easing communications with the world outside . |
| 27 | They buy always from fellow dealers , never at auction , and now exhibit at a dozen major fairs each year . |
| 28 | I shall readily contribute any thing in my Power , tho' I fear that is very little : But , upon making a thorough Search among my Papers , I have found Two or Three of hers , that were mislaid when the other were sent to Mrs. J … ; which I here send you , with two or three Copies wrote in her Childhood , that have since been alter 'd as they now stand in the printed Book |
| 29 | On either side of the thrones the pictures of George III ( 1760–1820 ) and Queen Charlotte are by Harrington Mann , copied from the original paintings by Reynolds that now hang in the Royal Academy . |
| 30 | Some affairs actually now begin with a medical procedure . |