Example sentences of "now [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention is to assemble data on rural social and economic change in the industrialising north which will complement the work now completed by this author on the more strictly agricultural counties in the south of England and Wales , making clearer the very different social and economic developments in the north and south between 1660 and 1870 . |
| 2 | It is from that sheet that the figures were transcribed on to the erm on to the pink and the , the , the , the , erm blue and the yellow sheets which have been circulated and which have been amended so that the figures now correspond on both sheets . |
| 3 | His black suit , now tinged with green , was shiny at the elbows and knees . |
| 4 | Is it any wonder that every one of my hon. Friends is now inundated with more complaints about housing matters than at any time since we have been in the House ? |
| 5 | This is very much the same as sample 3 , but the tucking needles are now tucking for two rows before knitting two rows . |
| 6 | Once again , the same format as the previous two samples , but needles are now tucking for four rows before knitting for four rows . |
| 7 | They make good employees for ‘ us ’ : a transfer has now occurred , for the pronoun now refers to commercial enterprises , financed by the World Bank . |
| 8 | Wilkinson 's Royal Berkshire side went on to beat Raynes Park and now qualify for next Saturday 's final at the Puma Centre in Welwyn . |
| 9 | Now sit in that chair |
| 10 | For greater accuracy of assembly , major body panels such as the doors are now formed in one piece . |
| 11 | We roped up for one awkward pitch before reaching the summit , which was now cloaked in thick mist , the weather deteriorating rapidly . |
| 12 | Equalization is not so much between classes as between individuals within a population which is now treated for this purpose as though it were one class . |
| 13 | I have now treated with Marine Cure and have increased the temperature to 80°s ; F. |
| 14 | Most earlier official documentation is now treated with extreme scepticism . |
| 15 | She herself was now treated like visiting royalty when she went anywhere . |
| 16 | The only significant opportunities for low-income people to decentralize locally ( as opposed to the longer-distance moves facilitated by the New and Expanded Towns programmes ) have derived from the re-cycling of older and poorer quality housing in the inner suburbs and from the development of spare peripheral sites by city councils-the ‘ outer council estates ’ which now suffer from major social and physical problems because of inaccessibility , limited facilities , faulty design and inadequate maintenance . |
| 17 | The countries of the Pacific are now inhabited by half the world 's people — 2,400 million of them . |
| 18 | The rooms had ancient crusty mouldings and an iron-handled bell-pull for calling servants from the basement , now inhabited by Thin Lizzy 's road manager , a man who had the misfortune , so Eva informed me , to have hair growing out of his shoulders . |
| 19 | The bristles are now arranged in two vortices : why should this be ? |
| 20 | The spectators — now arranged in two ranks , Lhose at the front squatting , those behind standing upright — hurriedly finished placing their bets . |
| 21 | Swindon police are now liasing with British diplomats in Pakistan to check on her welfare . |
| 22 | The total storage available at Imperial Dock to meet the increasing demands of the Distillers now amounted to 55,000 tons . |
| 23 | Regardless of where their support came from , the fact was that possession of 38 seats in the Volkstag meant they could now rule with little or no reference to the other parties . |
| 24 | The Treasury Lords regarded the rejection of Hall 's Bill ‘ as a virtual abandonment of the whole scheme by the House of Commons ’ , and as the site was now limited to that authorized under the 1855 Act , they did not see why the plan prepared for that site should not be used . |
| 25 | Nuclear tests are now limited to 150 kilotons . |
| 26 | The airlines insist the pilots must submit their claim to the regulated wage-fixing system , under whose guidelines most pay rises are now limited to 6 per cent . |
| 27 | as part of a longer term review of legal aid policy , to pay modest sums to firms who allow their trainees and young solicitors to undertake the more straightforward cases now undertaken on legal aid . |
| 28 | Such matches and mismatches change over time , and so therefore does the use of the argument , and subjects which were previously regarded as vocational even if only in relation to a teaching career — are now justified on general grounds . |
| 29 | The President is assisted by a Prime Minister and a Cabinet composed of representatives of a number of political parties ; although the parties continue to exist , political activity is banned , and elections to the National Resistance Council ( NRC — hitherto comprising 98 appointed members ) were conducted on a non-party basis in February 1989 [ see p. 36455 ] , since when the NRC , now consisting of 210 elected and 68 presidentially appointed members , has acted as a legislative body for the interim period until a new constitution is framed . |
| 30 | But what fact is there in virtue of which the disposition then created was a disposition now to go on one way rather than another ? |