Example sentences of "now [vb -s] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American stockmarket now trades on a not-cheap price-earnings ratio of 14 based on Wall Street 's profit estimates for 1990 . |
| 2 | The house now belongs to a buxom blonde from Lyon , wife of a driving instructor . |
| 3 | The wreckage of the gantry now lies in a dry dock . |
| 4 | It will include a tour of the White House , arranged with the help of President Bush — whom Joe now counts as a personal friend — and visits to New York , Disneyland , Universal Studios in Hollywood , and finally the New Year 's Day Parade in the Pasadena Rose Bowl , California . |
| 5 | After starting out a special interest magazine , Skin 2 now looks like a mainstream style mag ( sometimes you feel it ca n't be long before S&M will make it into M&S ) . |
| 6 | Charities for the homeless report that 5,000 new people a year arrive on the streets and that the total figure now stands at a staggering 300,000 for the whole country . |
| 7 | The Church of the Kapnikarea , built originally c. 875 and enlarged in the thirteenth century , now stands on a small island in the centre of Athens traffic . |
| 8 | He has multiplied his numbers to plague proportions , caused the extinction of 500 species of animals , ransacked the planet for fuels and now stands like a brutish infant , gloating over this meteoric rise to ascendancy , on the brink of a war to end all wars and of effectively destroying this oasis of life in the solar system . |
| 9 | The Holme Post , recording a drop of 3.9 metres since 1850 , presents an unrealistically optimistic picture of the problem , since it now stands in a damp nature reserve . |
| 10 | He now lives in a flat a little further uptown with his Japanese girlfriend . |
| 11 | But 29-year-old Davey , who now lives in a lavish Florida mansion a long way from the two-up two-down terraced house he was brought up in , has no guarantees of success . |
| 12 | Jenny now lives in a terraced ground-floor flat in Queens Park with family friend Michael Saffer , Samantha , 22 , and Gina , 19 . |
| 13 | Heather Krohn , widow of Raleigh Krohn , now lives in a converted windmill on the island of Porto Santo . |
| 14 | The car has also become a huge hit with millions of visitors to the world-famous Universal Studios in Florida , where it now features as a popular ride based on the Spielberg films . |
| 15 | Regan is right to the extent that to talk of recognition in such circumstances does have a purpose , as it would of a dog 's staccato barks and tail-waving on hearing its master 's voice , but he fails to realise that the same form of words now features in a related , but different , language-game . |
| 16 | His blackness he now regards as a personal stabilizer rather than a means for rejecting society . |
| 17 | The notion that they will be circumscribed by a ‘ Joint Declaration ’ or a ‘ Basic Law ’ , so confidently advanced in 1984 , now seems like a distant dream ; 1997 , by contrast , suddenly seems very real , and very close . |
| 18 | What is more , the hand which until quite recently had hurled cricket balls at opponents now settles into a fine , rhythmic prose style . |
| 19 | Pip now falls into a snobbish habit of connecting high social status with moral superiority . |
| 20 | Next to the amphitheatre is an eleventh-century fortified tower , no doubt once part of the medieval town defences ; well maintained , it now serves as a Roman Museum . |
| 21 | The triple-towered castle which is today still a prominent landmark now serves as a historical museum . |
| 22 | In its present form it is substantially an early eighteenth-century building , and now serves as a local nursing home . |
| 23 | ‘ A tall , grizzle-haired fellow who now walks with a pronounced limp . |
| 24 | It now remains as a variable rule after /k/ before all consonants except /r/ . |
| 25 | The Vale of White Horse Gliding Centre now operates from a nearby farm , and will soon be offering flights seven days a week . |
| 26 | My father provided Maurice with a capital sum and leased him the property he now occupies at a nominal rental . ’ |
| 27 | Born in Darlington and still living there , 36-year-old Michael now works as a chemical processor at Seal Sands , and is a member of the naval reserve . |
| 28 | He now works as a general freelance feature writer for the Guardian , Independent on Sunday and Arena among others and has published several books including a biography of Prince . |
| 29 | Ameliaranne Stiggins , they suggest , has not been forced to take in washing to support the several children of her unfortunate failed early marriage — she did a New Horizons for Women course at her local community centre , passed her CQSW , and now works as a social worker in Tower Hamlets , where My Little Sister is her team leader . |
| 30 | She now teaches at a local girls ' school where she finds the all-female staff ‘ extremely supportive of each other ’ . |