Example sentences of "now [vb pp] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The STOP-SPOT red-breasted rarity had been swamped again and was now hidden from view . |
| 2 | The first reach of the canal is to be crossed by the retained portion of the new Black Country Spine Road , now downgraded from trunk road to local highway . |
| 3 | Just as Coleridge in 1796 abandoned political life in dismay , so Wordsworth now turned from politics in search of another version of his friend 's ‘ deep Sabbath of meek self-content ’ . |
| 4 | Farmers now suffered from inflation caused by the industrial boom of the war years . |
| 5 | Instead , dentures are now made from methyl-2-methylpropenoate — with no acronyms . |
| 6 | Cotton paper used to be made with cotton rags but is now made from cotton linters , which refers to the second harvest from the cotton plant . |
| 7 | Ann Johnson , who is now separated from husband Andrew , said she and their three children have rebuilt their lives following their nightmare . |
| 8 | Dissanayake had competed with Premadasa for the ruling United National Party 's nomination as presidential candidate in 1988 ( as had Lalith Athulathmudali , now transferred from Agriculture to Education ) , and had subsequently differed with the President on such issues as the handling of the withdrawal of Indian troops from Sri Lanka . |
| 9 | For example excitation is now transferred from phase A to phase let at 8=-n/6p . |
| 10 | John Gummer , now shifted from agriculture to environment , has been around too long , but is an old chum of the prime minister . |
| 11 | Where the Children 's Bureau had now advanced from restraint to diversion as a treatment for masturbation , Isaacs was giving a brief account of Oedipal conflict and advising parents that they were ‘ far more likely to do harm by rushing in to scold or correct than by leaving the child to deal with it himself — in a general atmosphere of calm goodwill ’ , and was citing Dr Ernest Jones in her support . |
| 12 | One interesting name quickly out of his blocks ( o.k. , corny ) was former Olympic hurdler Nigel Walker , now retired from athletics and back with Cardiff for whom he played youth rugby . |
| 13 | A current member of the Finance Committee although now retired from teaching . |
| 14 | OF THE 28 Tory Stinkers who voted on St Valentine 's Day in support of a socialist 's motion to ban hunting , four have now retired from politics — Mudd , Braine , Rossi and Clark — while a further five have been thrown out by the electorate . |
| 15 | He was the man who knew all the best positions and though he has now retired from football to run golfing weekends at places like the Meon Valley Hotel Golf and Country Club near Winchester , he assures you that once you 've scored five times a night you never forget it . |
| 16 | This leaves Scottish hopes in the hands of Gillian Stewart , Cathy Panton-Lewis and Julie Forbes , now recovered from flu . |
| 17 | Even the two youths who had attacked him had by now disappeared from view . |
| 18 | Many railways also have collections of historic coaches , freight wagons and other equipment and use the semaphore signals , most of which have now disappeared from use on the modern rail network . |
| 19 | In contrast to operations in Germany , where 70% of revenues are now generated from software , services and hardware maintenance , the UK earns between 5% and 8% from selling software products , 40% from hardware , and between 52% and 55% from software services , maintenance and support . |
| 20 | A winning Club was now led from dummy and East was trapped . |
| 21 | Otto 's house was now concealed from view behind groves of sombre cypresses . |
| 22 | Within each section of the company workers were now rotated from job to job automatically , regularly , and compulsorily , and this system covered a range of levels , not just the most de-skilled of the jobs . |
| 23 | As a result of this rule , and many carefully orchestrated publicity campaigns , the motor industry 's image has now changed from polluter to pal of the earth . |
| 24 | Many beehives have been destroyed by spray drift landing on the flowers from which bees collect pollen ; timber treated with the household chemicals lindane and dieldrin ( now banned from use ) is extremely toxic to bats and continues to be so for decades after treatment , and many bat colonies have been eliminated in this way . |