Example sentences of "now [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Due to cutbacks in Adult Education last year , Margaret was made redundant from her part-time post as lecturer for Special Needs in Wandsworth Adult College ; she is now Curriculum Manager for Basic Education , Special Needs , Physical Education and Complementary Health with Surrey Adult and Continuing Education Service and enjoys this work very much . |
2 | Until last year , Longchamp was the only place to be , but now Phoenix Park in Dublin , where the Cartier Million will be staged for the second time tomorrow , provides a tempting alternative . |
3 | Now Saturday night in Street , we used to call it the waits , Street waits , every Saturday night . |
4 | We are in the middle of a small Shaw revival , with recent productions of Caesar and Cleopatra , The Philanderer , and now Heartbreak House at the Theatre Royal , Haymarket , and Pygmalion at the National Theatre . |
5 | During 1949 as the first stage of the tram scrapping programme was drawing near , V. J. Matterface , formerly of the Metropolitan Electric Tramways and now Tramways Engineer to Leeds City Transport , was able to persuade his new masters that the modern Feltham cars might be a good buy when London Transport had finished with them . |
6 | Particularly eminent nowadays are her former tutor , Ian Brownie , now Chichele Professor of Public International law at Oxford , David Williams , now Vice Chancellor of Cambridge , and also John Smith , now Professor Smith , CBE , QC , LLD , FBA , and recently retired from the Department . |
7 | Kieran has now Rostrevor home to Dublin for six months where he intends , as he puts it , to ‘ lie low ’ for a while , writing songs and preparing for his and Frances 's second album . |
8 | ( 3 ) Implicit acceptance of responsibility for providing a wide range of services to our patients — In taking a fund we accept responsibility for purchasing hospital services , drugs , and now community care on behalf of our patients . |
9 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates , generally regarded as the wealthiest person in the US , is no longer the country 's most eligible bachelor — he became engaged over the weekend to 28- year-old Melinda French , a Dallas-born product manager at Microsoft who joined Microsoft in 1987 and is now product manager for the Microsoft Publisher desktop publishing programme . |
10 | Due to the growth of the course , there is not now examination space in the Polytechnic to examine the total number of students registered for modules in each examination session . |
11 | The former writer and fund manager , now deputy chairman of the renamed Maddox Group , has just backed his younger brother , Paul , and a partner in buying the Hush Puppy factory in Kilmarnock from Burlington International , the shoemaker which called in the receiver last month . |
12 | The DES has been anxious to promote a national system of transferability and , to this long-term end , it set up a working party in June 1977 to examine all aspects of a national credit transfer agency , under the chairmanship of Peter Toyne , formerly of Exeter University and now Deputy Director of the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education . |
13 | We know that Rod Mansfield of Ford 's SVE ( now engineering director at Aston Martin ) fought a battle to get decently shaped seats in the SVE-developed cabrio , and a huge difference to that car they make . |
14 | Clarke is now tournament professional at the K-Club , Straffan , County Kildare — he has just switched from the equally fashionable Mount Julliet , County Kilkenny — and manager Andrew Chandler believes a European victory is definitely on the cards for Ulster 's emerging star . |
15 | This part of the Soviet Union , has always been self-sufficient , now people talk of hunger , even malnutrition . |
16 | In Australia , with no research body equivalent to the BLR&DD or the CLR , the onus for the establishment of the national clearinghouse was taken by a single library , Caulfield Institute of Technology ( now Chisholm Institute of Technology ) . |
17 | Now Americans boast of their own ‘ princess ’ — Maria Shriver , attractive niece of the late John F Kennedy , wife of film star Arnold Schwarzenegger and powerful TV news anchorwoman . |
18 | Now yard inspector at er Street Station , seemed a there were there were va there were only f half a dozen sidings , outside the station at Street , see . |
19 | This domanial regime suited large-scale landlords with far-flung holdings ( great monasteries were landlords of this type ) , and by Charles the Bald 's reign , it had become general in much of what is now France north of the Loire with some examples also further south in Poitou . |
20 | An artist and a writer who 's now centre stage with publication of her first novel . |
21 | He began his career as intake foreman at the maltings when it was built and is now barley buyer for the south of England . |
22 | Mr Stevens , now Chief Constable of Northumbria , also had a separate meeting at the offices of the Director of Public Prosecutions Alasdair Fraser . |
23 | Oh we go to our place for , now women stage for |
24 | They were commissioned by John Cox who worked with Hockney at Glyndebourne and who is now Production Director of the Royal Opera . |