Example sentences of "now [verb] [prep] [det] " 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 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Now sit in that chair |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The countries of the Pacific are now inhabited by half the world 's people — 2,400 million of them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If you could please now think of all the products available to stamp collectors . |
| 10 | She might not now think of this as the action of a deflated bully , but the symptoms are classic . |
| 11 | She knew him well enough now to see through some of the camouflage — perhaps all of it . |
| 12 | It was some such hope which united the movement that now coalesced from all points of the spectrum . |
| 13 | For a band now irritated by most dance music — ‘ most of it 's cack , I hate going into bars where they 've got it blaring out from everywhere , you ca n't hear yourself think ’ — and uncomfortable with the accoutrements of clubbing — ‘ I ca n't stand being under strobes no more , do me head in , make me lose my balance ’ — it was inevitable the Mondays would rake up their rock roots , ‘ mature ’ their sound and make a major musical transition . |
| 14 | Hiatt is now regarded by many experts as the premier handcuff company in the world . |
| 15 | In France Bedford , acting for his nephew , strove to reduce the area of the country still faithful to the Valois ‘ claimant ’ , the dauphin , Charles , now regarded by many as Charles VII although , like his young English nephew , still uncrowned . |
| 16 | That avenue is now regarded in some quarters as not nearly as strategic as cuddling up with Novell , despite the disappointment USL employees might feel in not being able to cash in their stock and options that way . |
| 17 | Relatively little is known about such people , although in oral evidence to the House of Commons Health Committee the head of medical statistics at the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys remarked that ‘ one of the things that people are now suggesting about that other group who do not have an occupation is that they are forming … an under class . ’ |
| 18 | launched its new brand , Bakers Complete , supported by TV advertising and the product is now listed in most leading supermarkets . |
| 19 | More than half the schools in the United States are now experimenting with such tests . |
| 20 | ‘ There is a servant now to attend to all that . ’ |
| 21 | Our discussion now turns to this aspect of contemporary Britain . |
| 22 | A restaurant in Swansea is now catering for all tastes , by serving canine customers , as well as human ones . |
| 23 | The CCG team started work on the Channel Tunnel site in September 1987 and have built up until they are now catering for some 6,000 workers at two locations — Upper and Lower Shakespeare Cliff . |
| 24 | What was clearly stated was that the police have now powers as such to ban an event , unless it can be shown to be a public nuisance , and that they have no desire to fall out with all the local charities . |
| 25 | Indeed what we are now seeing in some cases as ‘ the genuine article ’ are quality brewery refurbishments dating from the 1920s and 1930s , good Brewers ‘ Tudor , maybe , but hardly the stuff of the ancient , inglenooky world that the modern myth-makers — the brewers and the tourism industry — would have us believe still exists . |
| 26 | Writers , artists and Bohemians now lived in some of the tiny terraced cottages facing the quay . |
| 27 | There were also photographs of his weak and charming father , who had read Pravda and the Daily Telegraph every morning , and his beautiful feckless mother , who 'd run off with an Italian and now lived in some palazzo in Rome , and of the huge house in which he 'd been brought up . |
| 28 | Night Goblins often take over abandoned Dwarf strongholds to live in , and much of the ancient Dwarf Empire is now infested with these creatures . |
| 29 | He said that imports through European Community countries now account for half of cocaine seizures , and ‘ the practical reality is we can not afford to have open frontiers with countries like the Netherlands , because the consequence is that drugs in increasing numbers come into our countries . ’ |
| 30 | Thirteen of the Pacific nations — the US , Canada , Japan , Australia , New Zealand , Hong Kong , Malaysia , Singapore , Indonesia , Thailand , Brunei and the Philippines — now account for half of the world 's growth . |