Example sentences of "now [to-vb] the [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 | Nothing would stop him , yet she struggled now to contain the fear that was in her , spreading like some pernicious cancer . |
| 6 | But I have n't got time now to discover the reason . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Now to try the rocket jets . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Wilson had sown the wind ; he was now to reap the whirlwind . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Suppose that the student has answered the first question in the other way ; is he now to answer the second ? |
| 15 | A chance now to identify the family traits . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Everything was broken ; it is difficult now to imagine the devastation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Now to put the other to the test ! |
| 21 | It is easy enough now to mock the film industry 's seeming paranoia about the Film Society screenings . |
| 22 | He had decided by now to draw the water out of Charles Roe 's old Deep Mine to the depth of the Deep Level . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was strong enough now to attribute the man 's parting shot about his drawings to sheer malice . |
| 25 | We got X and nought one two three four , but now to start the calculation we 're going to put X squared in first . |
| 26 | We need now to consider the question of the nature of pedagogic research , how it differs from other kinds of research activity , and what implications arise from such considerations for the education of teachers . |
| 27 | In moving now to consider the fate of the third PNP aim — that concerned with the promotion of ‘ flexible teaching strategies ’ — we stress the close connection with our discussion of curriculum in the previous chapter . |
| 28 | I wish now to consider the timetable for negotiations . |
| 29 | Now to consider the establishment of the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea ( DPRK ) and the character of the state as it developed between 1948 and 1950 . |
| 30 | Father James Morrow , a Roman Catholic priest and pro-life campaigner , emerged from the hearing of his application by magistrates in Bingley , west Yorkshire and said : ‘ It is up to me now to pursue the matter in the next court . ’ |