Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] now [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am now writing a history of the company in readiness for its centenary in 1999 . |
| 2 | I am now using a polyfilter and carbon to remove the copper . |
| 3 | My name is David and I 'm now doing a course in Materials Engineering . |
| 4 | And then he added that , of course , writers had nothing better to do most afternoons and since I was now writing a movie for him , he knew how to keep me happy . |
| 5 | You are now facing a building ( 18/183 ) currently owned by the Red Cross . |
| 6 | She 's spent 6 years researching his life and she 's now written a book which describes him as a talented , but essentially ordinary man . |
| 7 | Despite her failure to enter the teaching profession , she 's now published a book promoting phonetic teaching . |
| 8 | She is now seeking a sponsor to help her reach her dream of a place in the 1996 Olympics . |
| 9 | Mrs Johnson , who also has a three-year-old son Andrew , said she was now taking a law and sociology course at the nearby Fender Neighbourhood College . |
| 10 | By ten-thirty , Beth had cleared away the breakfast things , washed the dishes and stacked them into the big dresser , wiped down the kitchen table , taken the coconut matting from the floor and hung it over the line outside where she beat every speck of dust from it before replacing it over her freshly scrubbed quarry tiles ; all that done she was now enjoying a cup of tea , before setting about the drawing room . |
| 11 | We are now developing a programme of measures to implement this target . |
| 12 | We are now reaching a position in which growth and investment will reoccur and , as we saw throughout the complete period of the 1980s , there will be a growth in the absolute number of jobs . |
| 13 | Given that the appalling tragedy in the Horn of Africa will not end until there is peace , and given the changes in the pattern of the United Nations ' work in recent years , which our Government have so actively supported , does the Minister think that we are now reaching a stage where British troops could be deployed under a United Nations banner in humanitarian action as a precursor to effective aid ? |
| 14 | We should be clear about what ‘ allowing market mechanisms and incentives to do their job ’ means — the consolidation of the two-thirds society ; the perpetuation of the spiral of poverty , by which we are now seeing a generation of young adults emerging whose parents have never known regular employment , and who no longer expect — or even seek — it for themselves ; the creation of a permanent underclass , its anger turned in upon itself , its hope for the future devoured in poverty , crime , violence and despair . |
| 15 | Although we are now debating a piece of works legislation , it represents a major reform of parliamentary procedure , so I put down a marker at this stage to the effect that the Minister should be more forthcoming in considering whether we should have new procedures for dealing with orders . |
| 16 | ‘ After the autumn of shock caused by tremendous price rises , we are now facing a winter of discontent , ’ said one deputy . |
| 17 | They are now fighting a rearguard battle and losing . |
| 18 | Some of our members have lost their consolidated rate and it 's now become a bit of a running sore on the pay negotiations from last year , it needs to be sorted out , if confidence is to remain in last year 's pay , pay deal . |
| 19 | The name being dropped enthusiastically in cities down the M1 and along the M62 , it 's now earning a reputation as one of the grooviest nights in the north . |
| 20 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 21 | The brewery says it 's now found a buyer and the White Horse will stay in business . |
| 22 | With 120 stores throughout Scotland and the North of England , it is now considering a summer stock-market flotation to help with further expansion into England . |
| 23 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota says that it is now offering a workstation version of its UniChem molecular modelling program written for its supercomputers : the new version is available on Silicon Graphics Inc workstations and a version for other Unix workstations will be offered later this year ; prices start at $45,000 , compared with $130,000 on a supercomputer . |
| 24 | He is now writing a follow-up and wants to include others reminiscences of the time on topics such as rationing , the black-out , evacuation , all forms of civilian war service , the Home Guard , and more ! |
| 25 | That is why he is now writing a book for the ‘ home cook ’ . |
| 26 | Though he says the courts here are subservient to the regime , he is now fighting a lawsuit he has brought against the Department of Lands . |
| 27 | He 's now organising a letter writing campaign , and wants people to send a specially prepared letter of protest direct to the Iraqi Government . |
| 28 | He 's now taken a step upwards or sideways or whatever it is , he 's gone to the Met Office Headquarters , and he 's more concerned with other matters . |
| 29 | Oh , but there was a thing on the on the radio the other day talking about little boys , and they let him out he was now got a karate class for young boys in the South of England somewhere . |