Example sentences of "now [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Big Houses in the district were now mostly inhabited by people of his uncle 's generation . |
| 2 | Beyond it lay the Victorian Gothic church and some large houses of the same period , now mostly turned into flats . |
| 3 | Thanks to Lil , Engineering is now mostly run by feisty little females who seem to have been born with spanners in their hands and quantum physics on the brain . |
| 4 | In many cases the roofs were thatched , but are now mostly tiled . |
| 5 | The law concerning nullity and divorce has been considerably reformed in recent years , and is now mostly governed by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 . |
| 6 | This land is now mostly built upon and its value augmented by a contiguity . |
| 7 | The critical moment was not folly , and it has left monuments which , though now mostly neglected , deserve to last . |
| 8 | With 40,000 hip replacements a year , making joints is big business , now mostly done by multi-nationals companies . |
| 9 | In 1988–9 , local authorities in England employed 64,000 academic staff in further education , and 26,000 in higher education ( in colleges and polytechnics now mostly removed to the PCFC sector ) . |
| 10 | SOME SPECIES OF CLIMBING YAM CONTAINING HIGH LEVELS OF DIOSGENIN ( NOW MOSTLY SYNTHESISED ) TURNED OUT TO BE THE BASIS OF THE ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE INDUSTRY |
| 11 | Before leaving England he had been hankering after his American roots , not only in those sections of Ash-Wednesday which recall the New England coast , but also in his prose , invoking , for instance , his old master Josiah Royce , who was now mostly forgotten , ‘ but a great philosopher in his day ’ . |
| 12 | The corporate power-brokers who dominated Los Angeles a decade ago when the Olympics were about to be staged — the oil moguls , the aerospace kings , the old movie-studio emperors — have now mostly left the scene : their firms broken up , in the hands of bureaucratic managers or wholly owned by foreigners . |
| 13 | He was , however , a protestant , and now duly proclaimed King James III as King of England , the first such ceremony on English soil . |
| 14 | There is now little left for the creditors to salvage from the airline 's wreckage . |
| 15 | In Rene Reaumur , the academie had a first-rate technologist , but a man who is now little remembered . |
| 16 | I have the impression that the novels of Phyllis Bottome are now little read , though I remember my mother borrowing them from the local library in Barnsley in the 1930s , and speaking of them with respect . |
| 17 | This byroad was formerly the main highway ; it is now little used although it is kept in good repair to serve the few local farmsteads . |
| 18 | Chestnut is still in demand for fencing , although the trees are often grown to a greater girth , and hornbeam is now little used . |
| 19 | An extensive range of materials is now available in addition to PMMA , which is now little used . |
| 20 | Whilst Underwood 's somewhat arbitrary classification is now little used , the patterns which he detected , multi-strand lines and spirals , continue to be found by those who in some cases have had little contact with his original work . |
| 21 | Of the other contraceptive methods , the cap has remained almost exclusively a middle-class contraceptive , withdrawal predominantly a working-class practice , although now little used . |
| 22 | ( Although telegrams are now little used in business matters , the question could arise in connection with international cables . ) |
| 23 | Walking slowly through autumn streets he had been wrestling with the ways in which it appeared to him that Coleridge had made use of a now little known book , Ridley 's Tales of the Genii . |
| 24 | I have yet to come across another dog who began life in the same way Sadie did which has now successfully integrated into society . |
| 25 | Other studies in Oxford on the hypothalamus led to the discovery of compounds now successfully used in the treatment of sterility and cancers of the prostate . |
| 26 | His most recent success is Amouage , now successfully launched in Harrods . |
| 27 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 28 | Looking at the superior economic performance of the northern United States compared with the south , political economists had a simple explanation ( now vigorously disputed by economic historians ) : slavery . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll get back and keep out of my way , that 's what you 'll do , ’ said the man , by now justifiably irritated . |
| 30 | In any case , Deutsche is now wholly opposed and has coaxed powerful friends into buying Continental shares to help block the bid . |