Example sentences of "now have the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvard now has the finest collection of such material outside of Korea ’ . |
| 2 | So , because it did n't ‘ take advantage of customers when times were good ’ , it now has the long-term advantage of customer loyalty . |
| 3 | Britain now has the best road safety record in the European Community — helped by Conservative legislation , including making the wearing of seat belts compulsory . |
| 4 | The former Charlton Athletic boss is an experienced wheeler-dealer on the transfer market and now has the rare luxury , for him , of money to spend . |
| 5 | The city now has the highest per-head rate of fatal police shootings in the country : double that of New York and nearly triple that of Chicago . |
| 6 | Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ? |
| 7 | Welsh manufacturing now has the highest productivity of any part in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Outside the US , the UK now has the highest number of cellular subscribers anywhere in the world , and by the year 2000 as many as 20% of the UK population are expected to be users . |
| 9 | So I 'm put into the hands of what used to be called ‘ Wardrobe ’ but now has the grander title of ‘ Costume Designers ’ , who are keen for me to join the twentieth century sartorially , which would involve climbing into one of those colossal suits . |
| 10 | In fact Washroom Hygiene now has the lowest termination rate of all services in the Division ! |
| 11 | But Britain now has the lowest ratio of spending to GDP in the European Community . |
| 12 | I am delighted that the recently privatised Harland and Wolff now has the longest order book in its history , with £565 million worth of orders , that it is competing successfully with the Koreans and the Japanese , that the future of 2,500 of its people is assured and that it is the premier shipyard in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | With stocks consisting largely of wines from Navarra and Rioja , the place now has the unusual advantage of both on- and off-licences for alcohol . |
| 14 | A senior official , Cheng Xianshun , stressed however that " although Tibet now has the bluest sky and cleanest water in the world , we should not be smug and must pay full attention to all environmental problems which will arise in the course of economic development " . |
| 15 | This site not only makes a picturesque scene , it now has the important role of housing the Dean Heritage Museum , a centre devoted to the recording and exhibiting of much of the Forest 's industrial heritage . |
| 16 | He now has the heart-breaking task of bringing her body home . |
| 17 | This eventually became institutionalized as the UN Centre on Transnational Corporations , which now has the difficult task of trying to reconcile the interests of the TNCs and the communities eager for their investments ( see Caplan , 1989 ) . |
| 18 | Vauxhall continues to close the gap on Ford , which now has the biggest market share by just 2.24 per cent . |
| 19 | The grant will now have the same effect as a non-distorting conditional non-matching grant of amount 25 ( in units of X ) and the individual will choose to move from E o to E 1 along the income consumption curve ICC . |
| 20 | One of the most important corollaries of the hypothesis of the turbidity current was that we could now have the geosynclinal trough without the geosynclinal sediments . |
| 21 | Laughed at when his US promoter described him as ‘ the new Marvin Hagler ’ ; now having the last laugh back home in Ilford |
| 22 | She now had the distinct feeling of nausea that sometimes accompanied overtiredness . |
| 23 | I now had the distinct impression that headvoice had been right all the time , that it was in fact down to me , or rather the old ‘ guilty conscience ’ ( which is well known to be capable of playing up without proper cause ) , playing tricks with my head . |
| 24 | Confident in the knowledge that he now had the general support of most of the top brass to his world control plan , Mueller considered that he was now in a much stronger position to start pulling the rug out from under the Regional Area Managers . |
| 25 | She could have hit the bastard , but she realised she now had the upper hand . |
| 26 | Hazel now had the clearest knowledge of where he was . |
| 27 | We now have the largest investment programme of capital investment in the national health service that we have ever had . |
| 28 | A succession of Conservative Home Secretaries have ensured that we now have the largest prison building programme this century , with nine prisons built and 4,000 places provided , and 12 new prisons on the way . |
| 29 | Laughable in an altogether more tragic sense are No Man , who now have the dubious claim to fame of featuring three ex-members of Japan ( Steve Jansen , Richard Barbieri and Mick Kam ) in their backing band , though to the uninitiated they come across as three craggy muso casualties looking more than ready for the knacker 's yard . |
| 30 | We now have the toughest set of controls on animal experimentation in Europe , and the number of animals used in experiments has fallen steadily . |