Example sentences of "now [verb] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a development that is expected to have at least some impact on the current jockeying for positions between the Unix factions , a 200-person UK software engineering firm , Praxis Systems plc , Bath , has now completed an evaluation ANDF installer for the Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc , which it says , ‘ exceeded the original performance targets . ’ |
| 2 | Now painted an off-cream colour , the house had a forlorn air of sagging decrepitude , the paint flaking . |
| 3 | The police complaints authority will now supervise an investigation into the exact circumstances of the shooting . |
| 4 | FIATA now supplies an air waybill form which allows the freight forwarder-consolidator to sign as a contractual carrier , in a box in which he fills in his full name and his capacity as a contractual carrier . |
| 5 | McColm is now demanding an apology , a full explanation and compensation from Cathay Pacific . |
| 6 | A process so hedged about with medical mystery and old wives ' tales that no man was allowed to share in it now became an experience he must not miss for the world . |
| 7 | McLaren 's conviction that Branson wanted revenge , to find a way to seize control of the Pistols for good , ‘ and cut me off at the pass ’ , now became an obsession . |
| 8 | As in religious autobiographies of ‘ confessions ’ ( St Augustine is relevant here ) the poet is steadily driven to despair as one by one the hopes and promises of his early ‘ vocation ’ are withdrawn ; the restoration of his imaginative powers is the subject of the final books of the poem , and the new placing of the ‘ spots of time ’ passage now offers an explanation of this recovery , besides connecting the end of the poem with the ‘ childhood ’ scenes of the now almost forgotten first two books . |
| 9 | These claims may be inflated for Crockett and Tubbs , but they do suggest strengths in Mann 's latest project , The Last Of The Mohicans , an American adventure story set in the 18th Century , written in the 19th and now given an energy forgotten by all but a few '90s action directors . |
| 10 | Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works . |
| 11 | The two are now completing an album they 've titled ‘ Intercourse ’ . |
| 12 | Kate had had one glass of wine with dinner and was now enjoying an armagnac . |
| 13 | But British authorities are sceptical of its importance and do not intend to add it to their evidence to the Sizewell public inquiry ( which is now enjoying an Easter break ) . |
| 14 | Richard Branson now headed an empire that encompassed some fifty different companies , incorporating records , studios , nightclubs , video production and distribution , film-making , book-publishing and property . |
| 15 | Chris Blackshaw , who studied children at seven junior schools in Peterborough , Cambs , now wants an overhaul of PE lessons . |
| 16 | In its place the councillors now found an amalgam of interest groups , some class-based , some not , some based on workplace issues , others concerned with matters of production . |
| 17 | The lathe has been modified and now has an indexing system with a range of divisions with 16 , 32 or 60 stops . |
| 18 | Motif/X Window spreadsheet , which now has an SQL link to Ingres . |
| 19 | It 's a shame that it 's now become part of a genre rather than the opening salvo it might have been , since Juice now has an air of predictability about it . |
| 20 | There are many gaps in his legal knowledge that he now has an opportunity to make good , as he never will again . |
| 21 | The Minister now has an opportunity to clarify that position . |
| 22 | The Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill , which affects my constituency and is returning to the House for the third time , now has an EIS which has been published and is freely available to the hon. Members in the Vote Office . |
| 23 | Northern Cyprus now has an occupier whose crime is to protect those rights and whose chief affront to the majority is to remain there passively . |
| 24 | Turnover at the group , which now has an interest in three onshore fields , rose 4.4 per cent to £1.9 million in the 12 months to 31 December , but operating profits shot up from £2,000 to £32,000 . |
| 25 | Germany now has an economy roughly twice the size of that of Britain . |
| 26 | If the phobic now has an explanation for his or her terror and an actual experience on which to base it , the feelings of stupidity disappear . |
| 27 | The area of Green Belt has been doubled since 1979 , and now covers an area roughly the size of Wales . |
| 28 | Anne was on night shift , Maureen was now driving an ambulance at night , and Pat was using his skill as a builder to rescue people from bombed houses . |
| 29 | Now Want an outline do n't we ? |
| 30 | She underwent open heart surgery in a bid to solve the problem , but now needs an artery widened using the new techniques . |