Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] [be] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not the political elite which is now paying the price for any mistakes — it is the disease-ridden baby , the mother who starves herself to feed her children , the farmer without hope of land or work . |
| 2 | Where the main impetus towards collective action on the part of employers related to the regulation of trading and commercial matters what are now called trade associations were set up . |
| 3 | If the hon. Gentleman would listen rather than talk , he would learn that the price formula for gas has also been revised : where it was minus 2 on the controllable costs it is now going to minus 5 — another tough target . |
| 4 | The truth , since that seems to be the painful area we are now entering , is that when I was last measured , which was in the fifth form at school , I entered the official records at 5ft 8½in , thanks largely to a tempestuous hairstyle , and by the cunning device of raising myself onto my toes as the sports master lowered the wooden measure . |
| 5 | Some of the social processes we are now coming to consider can be seriously reduced in significance if we take the ‘ sociological ’ emphasis in too narrow ( and unfortunately common ) a sense . |
| 6 | In the large public company it is now accepted as part of conventional wisdom that the shareholding is so widely dispersed that each shareholder does not own a significant enough proportion of the company to perform any of the functions of monitoring and supervising the directors that the legal model casts upon him . |
| 7 | There 's a very interesting table which is now produced by the D of E , not by Labour Weekly or anybody else , which lays out the amounts of money that are set aside in order for the collection . |
| 8 | When we speak of the electronic office we are now referring to an administrative system based largely on computers , word processors and associated communication devices . |
| 9 | The shocking true story of Alison Gertz who , at the age of 22 , learns that because of a one-night stand she is now dying of Aids . |
| 10 | These representatives corresponded regularly and sometimes very frequently with the governments for which they acted ; from the early sixteenth century onwards their despatches and reports , preserved in the official archives which were now beginning to be formed , are one of the most important sources of information available to the historian . |
| 11 | It should be said that the forecast figures have probably turned out to be slightly high , particularly for 1991 , since it seems unlikely that the US Department of Commerce would have foreseen the downturn in the global economy which is now biting so hard in all industries . |
| 12 | I thought the half bottle of wine we left was symbolic of the extravagant life I was now entering , though I must admit it did go against the grain and I did think vaguely of ‘ bowser bottles ’ . |
| 13 | One of the oriental features of this very special Victorian garden which is now owned by the National Trust |
| 14 | These roads lead to that part of the old Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard which is now leased to the first defendant , Medway ( Chatham ) Dock Co . |
| 15 | Heidrick and Struggles , which had previously never really made much of an impact in the UK scene , although they were strong worldwide , reorganised in the mid-1980s and attracted a strong team which is now giving them a significant presence in the UK search market . |
| 16 | The 9000-year-old agriculture there is now based largely on cultigens , including taro and bananas of south-east Asia , arriving before 4500 BP , but earlier phases could have been sustained using native species , including indigenous bananas , yams , pandans and sugar cane . |
| 17 | A dozen times a day she pictured the woman with prematurely white hair who was now holding Angel to her breast , and she ached with longing to change places with her . |
| 18 | She shows that unequal access to cash is a source of friction , and that rows about money are a common cause of the domestic violence which is now coming to light ( Pahl , 1983 , 1985 ; see also Brannen and Wilson , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | They will see the work of Christian Aid-funded projects in Eritrea and attend the final meeting of the Emergency Relief Desk , a cross-border consortium which is now closing down in Ethiopia and Eritrea . |
| 20 | So far there have been very few legal challenges to disciplinary action falling short of exclusion , apart from those concerning the use of corporal punishment which is now banned in the state sector . |
| 21 | It is inevitable that as continental markets become more streamlined business which is now done in Eurocurrencies in London may move back to national financial markets . |
| 22 | The organisational changes we are now proposing are still within the overall framework of AEA . |
| 23 | The flood of tormented flesh appeared to be one single myriad-headed entity which was now compressing itself insanely till eyes started , skin split , till blood vessels sprayed . |
| 24 | The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts . |
| 25 | Her encounter with Count Alan led to a strange and passionate romance which is now known only from two of Anselm 's letters . |
| 26 | Against that , Labour in the person of Harold Wilson had a more widely respected leader then it has now , and many experienced Tory canvassers are convinced that thousands of former Tory voters who are now thinking of defecting will gloomily return to the Tory fold within the next few days as they come face to face with the possible reality of a Kinnock government . |
| 27 | Already in Britain there are plans for putting into communication the computer-based personal information systems of DHSS , the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Centre , the Police National Computer and the Inland Revenue ; and the embossed plastic cards with unique machine-readable numerical identifiers which are now issued automatically to all school-leavers to mark their entry into the National Insurance scheme will in a few years ' time be , in effect , national identity cards . |
| 28 | Zamaron , the friendly policeman who was now promoted to Secrétaire Général of the Prefecture of Police and had bought Modigliani 's early work , came to the apartment to buy . |
| 29 | It so happened that the Gulf War in Kuwait was filling our attention , and so I switched on a video tape whenever something attracted me and I found that I would be most likely to record the daily sessions on the BBC 's Newsnight with Peter Snow discussing the disposition of troops over the battle zone using a visual aid which is now known as the sandpit . |
| 30 | ‘ We sincerely hope that the increased sales we are now seeing will be sustainable , although we must all be aware that the recession remains deep and we are still vulnerable to market conditions . ’ |