Example sentences of "[be] now [subord] " in BNC.

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1 They 're now considering taking their campaign to the European Court .
2 I am now considering planting another small group in one of the paddocks and have chosen a group of native hawthorn which are quickgrowing and suit any soil or position and can be trained as standard trees .
3 I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference .
4 are now considering awarding them a permanent memento .
5 Many of the water companies are now considering installing meters so that they can charge us for the amount of water we have actually used .
6 Though the wider wrongs of intimidation and interference with trade by unlawful means may protect mere expectancies , there is no doubt that for the purposes of the tort we are now considering there must be interference with a subsisting contract between B and C. Hence if the contract allegedly broken proves to be void there is no tort .
7 Other companies within the Group are now considering joining M&ETA to ensure the standard of their personnel and gain a commercially competitive edge .
8 The Irish Ladies Hockey Union are now considering staging the Cup Final on May 22 and moving the play-offs back a fortnight .
9 As a result of this feedback , we are now considering adding extra modules to the original specifications for some of the first phase of general SVQs .
10 We are now considering calling in other groups in Scotland so we can defend ourselves . ’
11 You come to spend more time together than you are now because you go home in the evenings she goes out .
12 Magic thus represents a view of causation utterly at variance with the concepts of the Christian scientific West , which are now as much a part of the African 's world as is ancient tradition . ’
13 The Smiths had their day , made the '80s safe for ironic excitement and indie pop that was n't crap , and are now as much a part of the nostalgia industry-chart museum as The Rolling Stones .
14 The rules were considerably simplified in the 1988 Budget , and , except for previous maintenance arrangements , are now as follows :
15 Such hopes are now as battered as Bishopsgate .
16 On the whole , however , CD-ROMs are now as physically integrated with computers as any other peripheral ; indeed , more so since new generation microcomputers are increasingly being designed with built-in CD players alongside the conventional magnetic floppy and hard disc drives .
17 But they and the families which ran them are now as much a part of local history as pits and shipbuilding .
18 American and Britain are partly responsible for the way the Russians are now cos we finance most of their industry in the second World War
19 ‘ Coincidentally , we are now seeing coming out of Eastern Europe that same broad attitude being adopted , not only by the democratic socialists and social democratic parties which are emerging in the East , but also amongst the reform wings of the old Communist parties led by a new generation who realise the command economy Stalinist game is completely up .
20 ‘ You could never have imagined the club would be where they are now when you look back on the liquidation crisis , ’ he said .
21 A year ago Chloe was a pretty little girl and she would be now but for this man , eighteen year old Jason Levy .
22 But they , of course they may be now cos we booked them back in Feb
23 What would he be now if he had become , say , a civil servant allotting housing finance , or a policeman , poring over bits of hair and skin and thumbball prints ?
24 I 'd like to know where you 'd be now if it was n't for Father 's African interests .
25 Where would you be now if it were n't for me ?
26 She wondered how he would be now if he 'd been brought up in the Down Manor Orphanage .
27 In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration .
28 She accepted our brief presence with disinterested dignity — as if she herself were now as symbolically dead as her husband was still symbolically alive .
29 Since the question is now whether a government exists , there is no room for more than one government at a time nor for separate de jure and de facto governments in respect of the same state .
30 She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost .
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