Example sentences of "now [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former parachute instructor who was paralysed in an accident is now helping other people with spinal injuries to lead an independent life . |
| 2 | Little fish can now swallow bigger fish . |
| 3 | Well I think it 's it 's a hiccup , nothing more , but I think the trend is clearly established , and it 's very much agreed , it 's recognized in the Labour Party , that the world outside has changed , women are now half the workforce , women are now half the college and university graduates , women 's work now represents forty percent of our G D P , so we have to increase women 's representation to recognize the world has changed . |
| 4 | The payment of interest on consumer credit now represents some £2,500 million a year , making this a vital area of consumer concern . |
| 5 | Small as his or her influence may be — and it may not be small — the situation is one which now involves two people instead of one , a triad instead of a dyad , a family-plus-an-outsider rather than a family on its own . |
| 6 | With the hot spell set to continue , doctors now fear some people may expose themselves to the risk of skin cancer.Gareth Furby reports . |
| 7 | To the ice algae are now added open-water species , all proliferating ; from September to January the amount of chlorophyll a present in surface waters climbs rapidly , keeping pace with incoming solar radiation ( El-Sayed , 1971 , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | They 've been art celebrities since then and , although the scale of their work has increased — pictures can now include several people , and stretch up to ten metres across — the real subject remains G&G ( as they sometimes describe themselves ) . |
| 9 | Now employing two people , this is the only one-stop bike shop in the area and has been built up into a thriving business as people have become more aware of the need for a healthy lifestyle . |
| 10 | The company , now employing 15 staff , is run by Unix ‘ guru ’ Brian Eberhardt , and concentrates on training , product development and consultancy . |
| 11 | Age Concern now wants elderly people worried about keeping warm to contact its officers or the fire brigade for advice . |
| 12 | In 20 years of running the flock — now numbering 150 sheep — at Broadview Farm , Blacknest , he had not delivered one set of quads , let alone two in one week . |
| 13 | Our richest wildflower meadow now has 62 species of plant , including the trefoils , vetches , sorrels and wild grasses essential as breeder plants for butterflies such as meadow brown , ringlet , large and small skipper , small heath , common blue and small blue copper . |
| 14 | A new plant opened in Coventry last September now has 60 people working on armoured vehicles . |
| 15 | Anglo-Welsh now holds 4. 1m ordinary shares in Palatine , representing 22.5 per cent of Palatine 's issued ordinary share capital . |
| 16 | Marlborough , Massachusetts-based , Stratus Computer Systems Inc says its XA/R fault tolerant processing systems now support Financial Data Systems Inc 's financial trading software , Caesar . |
| 17 | Local authorities now support elderly people in their own homes as far as possible , or in the local authority homes in the areas in which they live , so that they may be near to relatives and friends and their old associations . |
| 18 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
| 19 | But the police are now warning other people to call them immediately if they 're every approached by anyone suspicious . |
| 20 | Freelance 2.0 now embraces some multimedia functionality with an enhanced screen show routine . |
| 21 | Can I borrow this , this cup now to fish these fish out . |
| 22 | Not only have we been successful in raising the level of understanding of AI , expert systems in particular , but we have also now got several people within the Branch who have practical knowledge of applying the techniques ; although not necessarily active in the field at the moment , this expertise must pay dividends in the future . |
| 23 | This has been recognised in particular by UK companies , and only a minority of large UK companies do not now use graphical means of data presentation in their corporate annual reports . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ What is the housewife going to do when she is told that the price of her electricity has now reached 10 pence per unit . |
| 25 | MN&N , which was formed after a number of senior managers left Watson & Philip in 1991 , now employs 215 people throughout Scotland . |
| 26 | Cowley now employs 5,000 people , compared to 28,000 in the early 70s . |
| 27 | Roseberry Construction , the cooperative he launched with a handful of jobless locals four years ago , now employs 34 people in building low-cost homes ‘ for working people like themselves ’ . |
| 28 | Council workers : Gateshead Council now employs 11,680 people , including 79 registered disabled , according to latest figures from the authority . |
| 29 | Mantes now employs 136 people and productivity per head has increased by well over 20 per cent in one year . |
| 30 | ( The group now employs 56 people in publishing , appointing one new editor per quarter , and 120 in book distribution . ) |