Example sentences of "the [noun sg] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lack of feminist perspective is emphasized by statements such as : ‘ There can be no doubt that women and girls have failed to make full use of the opportunity now open to them ’ , which implies an ideologically and materially unfettered equality of opportunity . |
| 2 | The majority now believed that Bunker 's more realistic approach made more sense . |
| 3 | The majority now feel that , far from being irrelevant , the ‘ equality agenda ’ is crucial to influencing the long-term quality of working life for both women and men , and thus the credibility of the trade-union movement . |
| 4 | The Prince now has a strong team behind him , which is more in tune with his activities than ever before , and better qualified . |
| 5 | ‘ An' you watch fo' dat Gilda woman , boy , ’ the old man warned , referring to the hurricane now hitting the southern end of the Caribbean . |
| 6 | And the change now means that if a married woman , it does n't , as I say , it does n't affect single women , if a married woman now has n't earned income using all her allowances , so she does n't work has n't worked , never qualified for a pension , or does work but does n't earn more than that , and the couple have got investment income then it 's sensible to switch that into the wife 's name to give her income to use up her allowances . |
| 7 | After the disastrous storms and floods of 1890 in which vast sections of Grisedale and Garsdale were washed away , bridges destroyed and people made homeless , the stone lip of the waterfall was found to have been destroyed completely by the force of the water , so much so that instead of falling from an overhanging shelf a majestic hundred feet on to the rocks below , the waterfall now raced down in a series of cascades . |
| 8 | The struggle now became more equal , for the churned , blood-stained mud affected both sides ; and both were short of food and ammunition , since their supply lines had been largely demolished by rival artillery fire . |
| 9 | ‘ I had the sense he was rather sad , ’ the writer now remembers . |
| 10 | Similar attitudes of troops of occupation of all ages and in all places , from South America to India , help us understand the revulsion now felt by many Britons , some of whom may have been sympathetic to Rome and hopeful of recognition of their natural rights and dignity . |
| 11 | The board now seek control on only the parameters of profit , cash and broad strategic direction . |
| 12 | But the Board now asks the general assembly to look again at this part of our remit and to form a judgment about where this work should be most effectively done in future . |
| 13 | ‘ The hospice now needs to be furnished , so that we can provide respite for up to 15 patients a day . |
| 14 | While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc . |
| 15 | The throne now passed to Sophia 's son , a 54-year-old German , who automatically became King George I of England , the founder of a new dynasty , the Hanoverians . |
| 16 | What clearly frustrates him is that so much of the money now sloshing around in professional tennis , is being spent in damaging — or at least potentially damaging ways — rather than for the good of the game , as well as for the good of the individuals who are benefitting . |
| 17 | Before he left he wrote to Routh suggesting that if some of the money now wasted utterly in relief works were instead put into interest-free loans to the Irish railways , a great deal of employment would follow , not only on the lines but in the trade they would stimulate . |
| 18 | Fusion funding remains steady , but with the money now divided mostly between the two leading machines , the tokamak and mirror-fusion . |
| 19 | The Parliament now proposes , and the Council of Ministers has agreed , that an SE may be formed by a public or private company by merging or forming a holding company , or indeed , if it has a presence in more than one Member State , by transforming itself into an SE . |
| 20 | Each successive generation from the reign of Edward I. onwards has laboured to produce that complete political unity which is represented by the absolute sovereignty of the Parliament now sitting at Westminster . |
| 21 | As a result , the field now has one of the lowest per-barrel development costs of any in the North Sea . |
| 22 | This was because the field now included more subtle nasty strategies capable of preying ruthlessly upon such an out-and-out softy . |
| 23 | The computer now responds to the command SQUARE by drawing a square 50 x 50 units . |
| 24 | With the computer now established as an indispensable accessory in the workplace the volume of text available in a machine-readable format has become massive . |
| 25 | On 9 January 1872 the Minute Book kept by the clerk now called Registrar , recorded the commitment of Richard Piper sued by Henry Pierpoint for 5s ( money lent on 14 November 1871 ) . |
| 26 | The chairman now believes the recovery in Lucas 's profitability is gathering pace , even though ‘ delayed world economic recovery must inevitably dampen sales prospects for this year ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's a fine young gentleman and his lady come in a chaise in the parlour now taking some tea . ’ |
| 28 | Department of Health officials wrote to regional administrators in 1980 with details of a new plan — code-named Bittern — providing for ‘ the use of service ambulances and drivers in the event of an industrial dispute ’ — the decision now taken yesterday by ministers . |
| 29 | Department of Health officials wrote to regional administrators in 1980 with details of a new plan — code-named Bittern — providing for ‘ the use of service ambulances and drivers in the event of an industrial dispute ’ — the decision now taken yesterday by ministers . |
| 30 | Caroline explained that as well as checking claims in the advertising material you get through the post , the ASA now prevents companies from misusing any personal data they collect . |