Example sentences of "a [noun sg] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More likely , they followed a route now reduced : like Kipling 's road through the woods , ‘ weather and rain have undone it again and now we shall never know there was once a road through the woods . ’ |
| 2 | These inspectors , although originally instituted to inspect schools receiving grants from Parliament — a function now replaced by the task of reporting to the Secretary of State for Education on the quality of educational provision — have always had the aim of seeking to improve education in the institutions they visit . |
| 3 | No well er I , I expect you 've caught up a bit now have n't you ? |
| 4 | A decision now has to be made about whether this rearrangement is acceptable for the time being or whether some further rearrangement might be more satisfactory . |
| 5 | What the men did next is also not disclosed but clearly something impressed the ladies again because before the year was out they spontaneously and bountifully agreed to ‘ always let the men through directly they are in any way pressed ’ , a decision now overtaken by the bye-laws . |
| 6 | Brian has joined the faculty from South Devon College of Arts and Technology , where he was senior lecturer for 25 years , teaching BTEC National and HND courses in hotel and catering institutional management , a course now franchised to the University of Plymouth . |
| 7 | He suffered , like Vincent , from depressive attacks , of a kind now seen as indicating acute anxiety neurosis . |
| 8 | We can improve on our previous gloss for now , by offering " the pragmatically given span including CT " , where that span may be the instant associated with the production of the morpheme itself , as in the gestural use in ( 53 ) , or the perhaps interminable period indicated in ( 53 ) Pull the trigger now ! ( 54 ) I 'm now working on a PhD Now contrasts with then , and indeed then can be glossed as " not now " to allow for its use in both past and future . |
| 9 | The firm occupied 10 of the 23 floors in a building now owned by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority . |
| 10 | Henry Fielding , whose sister lived at a cottage now called Widcombe Lodge , knew the Bennets well . |
| 11 | Vaillancourt , a Canadian now living in California , had nothing to lose by his all-out effort , but would still have been beaten by George Lindemann if Larry , one of his two World Cup horses , had not hit the last fence . |
| 12 | They came from Rick Todd , a Canadian now making his home in El Paso , Texas — Trevino country — presumably because he studied golf at the University of Texas-El Paso and decided to stick around , although you ca n't help but notice that he could n't have settled much further from Canada if he 'd tried . |
| 13 | It seems that the only recourse a sufferer now has is to appeal to the landlord . |
| 14 | It is possible to buy and sell foreign exchange in ‘ futures ’ markets : that is , it is possible to conclude a contract now to buy foreign exchange at some specific future date at a price specified now . |
| 15 | Recalling Thatcher fortunes when they were at a low ebb , Baroness Castle of Blackburn , as she now is , reminds us that Margaret Thatcher was at one stage rated the most unpopular Prime Minister in history a tag now attached to John Major . |
| 16 | A fight now ensues ( see below ) . |
| 17 | It 's a story now told only to children . |
| 18 | The former Soviet Union made a similar pledge to destroy tactical nuclear weapons , a responsibility now carried by Russia . |
| 19 | This cash haemorrhage intensified after 1982 , when the society hired as its director James Bell , a genealogist now demonised as the administrator most responsible for the institution 's demise . |
| 20 | Its list of down-under clients is embarrassing : Mr Christopher Skase 's defunct media conglomerate , Qintex ; a bankrupt trans-Tasmanian property developer , Equiticorp ; Rothwell 's , a dud Perth-based merchant bank ; the fraud-ridden National Safety Council of Victoria ; and Mr Alan Bond , to whom the bank is thought to have had almost $1 billion in loans outstanding at the peak , a figure now cut by half . |
| 21 | ( Cottage cheese seems to be a term now applied almost entirely , and characteristically , in our looking-glass culinary language , to the thin and acid skim-milk product of big dairy factories . |
| 22 | Anyone nominated for a partnership now has to go through a two-day assessment and take part in simulated exercises that test the ability to display initiative in seeking new business . |
| 23 | He was buried at Nespelem , where a monument now stands . |
| 24 | It was such a pleasure now to wake each morning in the knowledge that she was near to her friends , and had no need to make a journey , in all weathers , to the school . |
| 25 | On the cold hill , a fence now surrounds the circle , and it interferes not at all with the mood or countenance of the rocks . |
| 26 | The formulation of a course for validation placed a greater burden on college resources than offering a centrally devised course but he felt that this was offset by the ability which a college now had to react quickly and flexibly to meet local demands . |
| 27 | Contesting articulations of musical practices could as a rule now arise only at the level of consumption . |
| 28 | ‘ The money people will have learned their lesson after the Arne Glimcher flop ’ , said a journalist now working on a script about another art world story . |
| 29 | At the southern end of the valley where the sky was brighter , a horseman now appeared , his dark mount reined in , its head pulling to one side as it slowed then came to a halt . |
| 30 | Here at the former farm was a pond now covered , but the rivulet still flows alongside Court Road . |