Example sentences of "now [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus accommodation here is fresh and modern , and the management now prides itself on offering the most comfortable of stylish , up-to-date amenities . |
| 2 | ICL now reckons itself to be the second largest supplier in the UK , John Bennett , ICL 's Director of Marketing Support and Communications told the audience at a recent briefing . |
| 3 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |
| 4 | Having publicly backed his wife 's move , Mr Ozal now finds himself at odds with the party he founded and led for more than six years as prime minister . |
| 5 | Funnily enough , Mr Goodfellow now finds himself in a similar situation to the late Leo Fender , having left his original company bearing his name ( now owned as a registered trademark by Lowden ) . |
| 6 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
| 7 | Pete , who honed his career up at Hope Street in productions like John McGrath 's The Bofers Gun , now finds himself in the thick of more flak in the new movie , The Last of the Mohicans , which opened last night . |
| 8 | Morgan Grenfell , once the high-flyer of British merchant banking , now finds itself with few British allies . |
| 9 | In other words , conscience begins to have marked effect , as the attitudes and strictures of which the child has bad experience during its upbringing are supported or modified by the beginnings of life within society , and is built into the sexual persona of the boy or girl ( increasingly meaningful terms at this stage ) which the child now finds itself to be . |
| 10 | The electron now finds itself outside an electrically neutral system , namely the positive proton and the close-in negative muon ; the electron escapes and where once was a hydrogen atom is now muonic hydrogen . |
| 11 | If in doubt about what to do next , keep yourself busy by going around and changing all the name plates : in a move scarcely calculated to do much to restore battered confidence in the company , IBM Corp 's shrunken Cadam Inc , the Burbank , California company that now confines itself to the microcomputer versions of the computer-aided design software , has changed its name to Altium , effective immediately : it says the Altium name is part of its plan to secure the unit 's position in the desktop market and ‘ a part of the larger renewal ’ of IBM . |
| 12 | Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) . |
| 13 | Take particular care that you insert a modification record with a issue number larger than 00.00Z ( the alpha character on the end of the issue number , the Development Code is mandatory ) , and that you then update the package 's pointer to itself so that it now selects itself at this new issue number . |