Example sentences of "now be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have now been marching for more than four hours , it 's still very dark . |
| 2 | The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular . |
| 3 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 4 | The first candidates have now been enrolling for the new , operational system , following the successful completion of the pilot phases of the Advanced Courses Development Programme during 1988–90 . |
| 5 | NICOLA Delacour ( 18 ) , from Newtownards used to work in a building society but has now been modelling for nearly a year . |
| 6 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 7 | The repatriation of Yugoslavs had now been proceeding for a week . |
| 8 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 9 | Shirley branch has now been trading for 3O years , and to celebrate its birthday a dinner-dance is being held at the Novotel Hotel in Southampton on October 16 . |
| 10 | Both have now been running for over 12 months , and the operating figures indicate that in addition to encouraging returns from food sales , drink sales have increased by approximately 10 per cent . |
| 11 | THE paper recycling pilot scheme at LASMO 's Broadgate office has now been running for six months — and the amount of paper being collected each week has doubled . |
| 12 | Mr Watson said the defence would now be looking for a ‘ courting couple ’ who were seen on the bus at the time of the incident . |
| 13 | The car would now be calling for him at seven . |
| 14 | You could drink now be driving for hours . |
| 15 | Yet even though he got the chance to fight Mr Bush , he would not now be heading for the White House if it had not been for the disaster which hit the President a few days after that TV interview . |
| 16 | THE paupers beat the princes and left Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear spe-culating how much his chairman will now be asking for his top players . |
| 17 | If he had n't posted bail for her she would now be preparing for her first night in jail . |
| 18 | UNIVERSITY STATUS : The Privy Council has granted Luton College the power to award its own research degrees and the college will now be applying for a change of title to the University of Luton . |
| 19 | Mr Knight said in a statement he would now be standing for re-election to Essex County Council as a Community Representative . |
| 20 | erm People who get the goals get the headlines do n't they erm so I 'm pleased for him erm John Durning now is missing for two games erm he misses erm Oldham and Swindon , so that 's pleasing to have Foyly back . |