Example sentences of "and [vb mod] now [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The bill , which makes it an offence to carry a knife and puts the onus on the carrier to prove he had good reason to carry the knife , will have its third reading on Friday and could now become law before summer after the Scottish Office accepted a Labour amendment that the act should come into force on the day it is passed rather than at the end of a two month period . |
2 | The shop , now double the size it was a year ago , was ‘ very healthily up ’ , and could now take advantage of the last minute frenzy by being able to accommodate more people inside . |
3 | It began to lose money , and would now owe banks some £250m-300m if its contracts were enforced . |
4 | The world No 7 from Thailand raced into a 7-1 lead and will now face Steve Davis . |
5 | McGregor , who was found guilty , has received the Humane Society Award for saving life and the Strathclyde Police Award for bravery , and will now face police disciplinary action . |
6 | Cantona 's Gallic temperament baffled Sheffield Wednesday manager Trevor Francis , exhausted Howard Wilkinson 's patience at Leeds and will now test Alex Ferguson 's man-management skills to the full at Old Trafford . |
7 | The audition planned for the early Autumn has now been postponed until after the Crystal Palace Reunion and will now take place on December 5th . |
8 | Paris-based Advanced Computer Research International SA is designing a massively parallel processor around DEC 's Alpha RISC ( UX No 422 ) , and will now develop Fortran 90 compilers and applications for use on parallel systems with Cray Research Inc . |
9 | They beat Warwickshire by three wickets , and will now play Leicestershire at Lords . |
10 | On May 8th Halifax Town ignominiously plunged out of the Football League and will now play soccer in the minor leagues . |
11 | In the run-off poll on March 24th Mr Soglo won two-thirds of the vote , and will now become president . |
12 | The company has also invested £100,000 in mobile equipment and can now loads ships at the rate of 5,000 tonnes a day . |
13 | Already the tenants here have seen their fuel bills reduced to about £7.00 per week for whole house heating and can now grow fruit instead of mushrooms and other varieties of fungus ! |