Example sentences of "now [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mum and Mrs Quigley were now ritting on the arm of the sofa , their eyes glued to the screen , as Quigley paced around the room . |
| 2 | In this case the misgivings appear to be unfounded , but it does highlight the need for adequate controls on such experiments , both from a national and international perspective , since it is always possible that genetic engineering firms , which are now proliferating in the USA , Japan and northwest Europe , will turn to those , usually developing countries , where regulations are not as strict as those of , for example , the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in the USA . |
| 3 | Laurentius is now collaborating with the technological giants Philips in Eindhoven to perfect the image of the X-ray using computer-boosting techniques , so that a clear positive print of the watermark and the structure of the paper can be achieved . |
| 4 | ICL itself admits to be investigating a parallel processor architecture that will use HyperSparc , sources say this is likely to grow out of a 256 CPU parallel system that the company is now building under the auspices of the European Community 's Esprit project . |
| 5 | A large body of " spreading " data is now accumulating in the cytogenetic literature , spanning all eukaryote species from plants to man . |
| 6 | The Boulby potash mine in North Yorkshire , working Upper Permian Zechstein evaporites at a depth of 1100m , began production in 1974 and is now producing at the rate of 770000t/y KCl . |
| 7 | Rincewind found that he was now hanging onto the end of a tongue of bark and fibre , lengthening as it peeled away from the tree . |
| 8 | They 've also been lucky : a box of curtains bought for £20 , for resale , yielded the magnificent tapestries now hanging in the study . |
| 9 | The directors of this company have therefore ignored the legal requirements now attaching to the allotment of shares and are liable to a default fine for each infringement ( see Sch 24 , CA1985 ) . |
| 10 | However I notice that Wyre Borough Council workmen are now fencing off the area immediately around the swings etc . |
| 11 | ‘ The IOD welcomes the evidence in this survey of the degree of responsibility companies are now accepting for the effective management of redundancy situations and the high level of concern and care which they evidently feel for employees . ’ |
| 12 | It is now said to have completed the main porting work and is now wading through the device driver work . |
| 13 | Sammy stood on the mat shaking his fur by the open door and looking out at the sheets of rain that were now whipping across the graveyard . |
| 14 | Ace was lounging on the sofa next to her , his shoeless feet now resting on the table next to the coffee , Kate 's glances of distaste having been completely ignored . |
| 15 | Improved Director Class D11 , 506 ‘ Butler Henderson ’ is now resting in the Great Hall flanked by two other famous locomotives . |
| 16 | British consul David Hook was in Waco liaising with the authorities and checking on the health of the three British children released earlier and now recovering in the care of the local child protection agency . |
| 17 | Peggy Holmes , who is in her 60s , is now recovering in the City Hospital . |
| 18 | She saw with disappointment that Rupert Stonebird was not among the little group that Sophia was now bringing into the room . |
| 19 | This was the status the Mighty Minogue was now enjoying in the Land of the Rising Sun . |
| 20 | It is astonishing that health ministersn now grappling with the financial disasters of the NHS internal market further down the line , should be so complacent in the early stages of their much-vaunted mixed economy of care . |
| 21 | The CBoT and CME , once deadly rivals , are now cooperating over the development of a screen based electronic global trading system called Globex . |
| 22 | The PDS-3 machines , which the company says it is pitching between Sun 's Sparcstation 2 and Sparcstation 10 offerings — will be available in the UK from Pinnacle Data Systems Europe Ltd , Dunstable , Bedfordshire — formerly known as Unix Solutions and now trading under the Pinnacle name — with European distributors being lined up . |
| 23 | In June 1992 , Wood Group Engineering Limited acquired 100% of the issued share capital of Marioff Services Limited ( now trading under the name of Wood-Way Hydraulic Services Limited ) . |
| 24 | While the situation in the south remains a major concern , greater violations of human rights are now occurring in the North and Eastern provinces of the island , where government security forces are engaged in a full-scale civil war with elements of the Tamil-minority population . |
| 25 | The explosions were now occurring in the area they had just evacuated , probably inflicting casualties on the British troops who had taken over the German trenches . |
| 26 | The alley walls absorbed the shock and a bloody mushroom cloud rose above the devastation now occurring behind the Tomorrowman Tavern . |
| 27 | FULL-TIME Communication , the satellite television company who have offered English football £500 million over 10 years , are now bidding for the glamorous final stages of Europe 's premier competition , the European Cup . |
| 28 | Nick Graham and Melvyn Relly are now applying for the Sheriff of Nottingham 's job ! |
| 29 | Quality DJs from all over the country have been coming to Middlesbrough for the last couple of years , including London DJs who are now returning through the Flying organisation . |
| 30 | There was a newsflash at nine to say that the rescue party had reached the injured man and were now returning to the surface , and then nothing until almost midnight . |