Example sentences of "now [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You do n't need a line to God now to see the way things are going .
2 Well it 's time now to hit the road with the London Sydney car marathon .
3 Well it 's time now to hit the road with the London Sydney car marathon .
4 She was near enough now to swing the basket viciously against the pickpocket 's hand , making him yell as he extracted the girl 's purse , which he dropped as he fled .
5 Adam stopped now to light a cigarette , contemptuously confident of his ability to manoeuvre and control .
6 Nothing would stop him , yet she struggled now to contain the fear that was in her , spreading like some pernicious cancer .
7 Wagner later told Community Care : ‘ The time is ripe now to establish a forum .
8 But I have n't got time now to discover the reason .
9 There would be time now to see Mr. Fynney , the chief debenture holder on the line , and take his opinion , which I believe has not been given on the position but he , unfortunately , a short time ago lost his brother , and could not attend to business , and there would be time now to obtain the consideration of the promoters of the points above named , before the bill passes the House of Lords .
10 I sort of start running now to find a way out quick , but this wire fence goes all the way down to the wall at the other end and I ca n't find no door in it .
11 Ministers should take the opportunity offered by falling school rolls to act seriously now to increase the quality and quantity of science education in schools .
12 Now to try the rocket jets .
13 ‘ When the son returned to his father , he was not rebuked , for the father knew that the son had already learned what was necessary now to trust the father .
14 Our technique of solving the above equations has improved , and of course we are in a much better position now to evaluate the material constants , but fundamentally electromagnetic theory stands now as it stood a century ago .
15 Wilson had sown the wind ; he was now to reap the whirlwind .
16 She was fired with enthusiasm now to visit the border counties and soak up their atmosphere — the twisting Wye Valley , the Malvern Hills ' first harbingers of the rugged Welsh mountains beyond , unspoilt Shropshire 's towering Ludlow fortress .
17 Suppose that the student has answered the first question in the other way ; is he now to answer the second ?
18 The term heterotactic is used now to define a triad which is neither isotatic nor syndiotactic .
19 A chance now to identify the family traits .
20 Some said there would be no more than a brief lull to refurbish and reprovision , and then another attempt ; others maintained that the troops would be paid off — if they were so lucky as to be paid ! — and disbanded from Shrewsbury , for it was too late in the year now to favour an invasion .
21 It is difficult now to imagine the splendour which the vast incrustation of ornaments must have presented to the eye by the time the church was complete .
22 Everything was broken ; it is difficult now to imagine the devastation .
23 He has plans now to buy a property in Venice : ‘ I love the palce so much : a five-room apartment there costs about the same as studio flat in Tufnell Park . ’
24 To my mind , it would be a stylistic improvement if Community legal texts were now to abandon the use of the word ‘ whereas ’ for the purpose of introducing their recitals .
25 English Heritage chooses now to stress the responsibility of the many boroughs of which London is made up : ‘ Our policy is , in consultation with the boroughs , and over an agreed programme , to withdraw from the exercise of our powers where we are duplicating their functions ’ .
26 Now to put the other to the test !
27 It is easy enough now to mock the film industry 's seeming paranoia about the Film Society screenings .
28 He had decided by now to draw the water out of Charles Roe 's old Deep Mine to the depth of the Deep Level .
29 Now to calculate the hazard ratio on these two groups , those patients with counts of greater or equal to twenty one were two and half times more likely to die of their disease than those with counts of less than twenty one .
30 He was strong enough now to attribute the man 's parting shot about his drawings to sheer malice .
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