Example sentences of "now [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She became a pilot and now flies jumbo jets between Bali , Hawaii and Los Angeles . |
| 2 | The Sun now emits ultraviolet radiation , but a young T Tauri type star would have emitted up to 10 000 times more . |
| 3 | As a result of the United Kingdom initiative , the Internal Market Council of the European Community now receives regular updates on the implementation of single market measures . |
| 4 | The Library now receives Current Contents on diskette as well as paper copies . |
| 5 | Well I think it 's it 's a hiccup , nothing more , but I think the trend is clearly established , and it 's very much agreed , it 's recognized in the Labour Party , that the world outside has changed , women are now half the workforce , women are now half the college and university graduates , women 's work now represents forty percent of our G D P , so we have to increase women 's representation to recognize the world has changed . |
| 6 | The payment of interest on consumer credit now represents some £2,500 million a year , making this a vital area of consumer concern . |
| 7 | United States judges also have gone abroad on rare occasions , e.g. , to England in the Westinghouse case , but it is understood that the United States now discourages this practice . |
| 8 | Two fields that came on stream in 1992 are helping maintain this level of output : Miller ( BP : 40% ) now produces xx barrels of oil a day ( b/d ) and yy million cubic feet of gas a day ( cf/d ) , while Donan ( BP : 100% ) produces yy b/d . |
| 9 | Timex 's plant in Dundee has stopped making watches ( it now produces printed circuit boards ) , and its workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred . |
| 10 | Parfums Christian Dior , internationally renowned for its quality and vitality , now produces six fragrance lines for women and three for men , as well as a large variety of beauty care products and make-up . |
| 11 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 12 | None of these large animals could possibly have passed over the arms of the sea which now separates these countries , and their presence plainly indicates that a land communication must have existed since the origin of the species … ’ |
| 13 | Frequently , such furniture now displays longitudinal splits in the boards . |
| 14 | ‘ To know the law now offers such protection should help some of the difficulties associated with house purchasing which , for many , can be an extremely harrowing experience . |
| 15 | And at Zen Cargo , on the old Coconut Grove site , Lawrence Leun , owner of Zen , now offers European food with oriental influences . |
| 16 | The range now offers two patterns in 10 soft colourways sympathetic to current bathroom decor trends . |
| 17 | And when it comes to lipsticks , it now offers more shades than any other company in the world . |
| 18 | The company now offers user-based licences tailored to the particular software product and its possible usage patterns . |
| 19 | Persisting with the injunction now offers foreign publishers another opportunity to humiliate the government and over legal principles which this time look trivial beside those at stake in the ’ Spycatcher ’ affair . |
| 20 | The murder inquiry based at Mere Way police station now involves sixty officers . |
| 21 | Small as his or her influence may be — and it may not be small — the situation is one which now involves two people instead of one , a triad instead of a dyad , a family-plus-an-outsider rather than a family on its own . |
| 22 | Finding out whether you could save money by having a meter fitted now involves considerable research and complicated calculations . |
| 23 | It was used for the German Grand Prix in 1985 but its return as a championship circuit was shortlived and it now plays second string to the Hockenheim . |
| 24 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
| 25 | The US now emphasises political stability and the need to decrease the size of Central America 's military machines . |
| 26 | Maternity Rights The law now places legal obligations on employers to pay women [ who qualify under the statutory rules ] on maternity leave and to allow them to return to work afterwards . |
| 27 | Paul now adds another element . |
| 28 | Age Concern now wants elderly people worried about keeping warm to contact its officers or the fire brigade for advice . |
| 29 | Ironically , the properly market now wants more certainty about the future . |
| 30 | Mr Davenport now worries that re-engineering is passing from a fad to a cliché . |