Example sentences of "and now [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The neutral umpires thought the pitch was playable after overnight rain , but it had not been marked and now Connahs Quay plan to protest .
2 A 750 delegate Conference Centre , a new Exhibition level at Olympia , new restaurants and now Earls Court 2 — a brand new 17,000 sq m hall — these are all part of our recent investment programme .
3 And now cigar smoke I quite like .
4 It 's becoming fashionable to buy in rather than build specialised servers — IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp are both doing it , and now ICL Plc has gone to Burlington , Massachusetts-based Xylogics Inc for the Annex Three and Micro Annex XL communications servers under an OEM agreement that will see the UK company marketing them as the DRS local network terminal server line with its DRS 6000 range of Sparc-based and DRS 3000 iAPX-86-based Unix systems .
5 Since the war a Liberal , Labour ( now Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos ) , a Conservative ( the unfortunate Keith Best ) and now Plaid Cymru member , Ieuan Wyn Jones , have sat for Anglesey .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Fidel Ramos , a former army chief and now defence secretary , could point out to voters that he had loyally defended the president in the numerous coup attempts against her .
9 Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked .
10 Sparc has never been used for that before though Sun ( UX No 399 ) , and now C.Itoh Electronics are believed to be building one .
11 IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all .
12 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 .
13 Harris Corp has switched to PowerPC ( UX No 410 ) , and now Encore Computer Corp says it will use Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha AXP architecture in future designs of Infinity 90 Series .
14 and now page number is sort of out there
15 This is generally thought to have been done deliberately , to improve drainage in the days before clay and now plastic field drains .
16 ( 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 .
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