Example sentences of "now [vb base] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , as we now make plans to go home , we are sad at the thought of leaving this country and the people we 've met . |
| 2 | First , quite a lot of people now make money from Superfund . |
| 3 | One reason for being hopeful is that we now make machines which do some of the things that brains do , although we must remember that there may be important ways in which brains and existing computers work on different principles . |
| 4 | Never , The Smiths now make Duran Duran , Nik Kershaw or Michael Jackson look years out of date so how could they have been seen as old fashioned at the start ? |
| 5 | Such surveys routinely now make use of various inductive statistics to secure the generalisation from sample to population . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , bookmakers William Hill now make Forest odds-on favourites for relegation , but champions Leeds are not far behind at only 5-1 . |
| 7 | Lawrence is now branch manager of Newcastle , prior to which he was a successful sales manager with the Healthcare division . |
| 8 | He 's speaking of this time now and this age when it is now harvest time . |
| 9 | From this plinth had , a long time ago , fallen sideways a tall figure which now lay face-down in a puddle , narcissistically gazing at itself . |
| 10 | A return to downland would be popular with walkers , with Britain 's 3 million paid-up members of nature conservation organisations , its 10 or 20 million ‘ green consumers ’ , with local people who now suffer spraydrift , and with consumers of water . |
| 11 | And now backpain week has been designated by doctors and osteopaths to make us more aware of the problem . |
| 12 | Some authorities now favour homes taking fifteen to twenty children , particularly for the difficult medium-term cases where the child is away from their natural home for more than a few months . |
| 13 | Although it may not seem much in terms of substance , part two of the treaty which deals with European citizenship raises the intriguing idea that in the one member state in which there is not a written constitution we now gain access to the treaty additions and to the written constitution which already exists in the Community . |
| 14 | Stockbrokers never more than now lack enthusiasm for the small client . |
| 15 | Hospitals now sell patient care including operations , X-rays , and blood tests , charging for everything . |
| 16 | Several manufacturers , including Pioneer , Panasonic and Mitsubishi , now sell video disc players and VCRs which can play NTSC tapes through some PAL sets . |
| 17 | We now sell Book Tokens only when people ask for them . |
| 18 | Now Dance Energy House Party , it seems to be moving away from dance altogether , in favour of ‘ off-beat ’ comedy sketches and the dubious attraction of Normski in drag . |
| 19 | Now Trust workers are working to reveal the oak in all its glory . |
| 20 | Now change legs — can you do this effortlessly or do you find you have one leg stronger than the other ? |
| 21 | Ecstasy tablets now change hands for £20 a time . |
| 22 | The batsmen now change gear and for the next 25 overs try to raise their run-scoring — ‘ strike-rate ’ in television jargon — to five or six an over without conceding more that three of four wickets . |
| 23 | Now repeat exercises 3 — 8 working the opposite leg . |
| 24 | We now combine greenhouse and solar forcing to determine whether a better fit between modelled and observed temperature can be obtained by including the solar component . |
| 25 | For filtration , I now combine undergravel with external and , as with all heavy feeders , you need to turn over the capacity of the tank at least three times an hour . |
| 26 | Ministers now fear Chancellor Norman Lamont — or his successor if he is forced to quit — will have to produce an emergency Budget . |
| 27 | The fact that Oslear has been stripped of his position as the umpires ' boss at their annual meeting , means that Palmer , Hampshire and the England team now fear Allan Lamb 's sensational Daily Mirror revelations may never be backed by cricket 's dithering chiefs at the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 28 | We now develop node 7 and find an optimal solution to LP7 by making the indicated pivot in the σ 2 -row in P1/LP5 . |
| 29 | The 1987–8 statistics show some improvement : female postgraduates now outnumber men in social sciences , languages , librarianship and medical studies ( i.e. subjects such as pharmacy and nursing ) as well as education ( UGC 1988 ) . |
| 30 | Coming to the middle distance , I now encounter trees . |