Example sentences of "[pers pn] now [vb base] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I now use a small plastic bucket to keep the worms and feed them on bread and milk . |
| 2 | I now use a wooden wedge between the chuck and the bed bars , held at the back by an elastic band so that you can rotate in one direction but not the other . |
| 3 | I now see a certain awkwardness in the way Summerchild sits on the other side of my desk . |
| 4 | ‘ I now have a great deal of choice about everything I do , which is the great blessing of old age . |
| 5 | Pat and I now have a small group of wild-caught Yellow Swords from one of the new collecting sites . |
| 6 | Whether the men used me or not , I now have a better understanding of relationships and what I want from them . |
| 7 | I now have a regular exercise programme which I enjoy and I am a trim one-and-a-half stones lighter which makes all the difference to how I feel about myself " . |
| 8 | I now have a new sweater and a clean conscience ! |
| 9 | I now wear a blue sweater beneath a navy anorak , dark slacks , anonymous . |
| 10 | Unless you now make a determined effort to exert your authority and independence , you will be stuck in the same rut and feeling hurt , angry , isolated and out of step with partners or close companions . |
| 11 | If you now use a low compression ball and swing at 110 mph , you will compress it too much and realise less than 220 yards . |
| 12 | You now have a complete record of the super season in which Mansell became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels . |
| 13 | Remove the four bolts each side which bolt the backrest brackets to the body sides and you now have a two seater . |
| 14 | Craftsmen are experts in making barrels from the wood of trees , you have the use of barrels , except for storing the oil , you now have a large quantity of barrels available . |
| 15 | Fold the edges over 3/4 inch ( 2cm ) top and bottom , so that you now have a double thickness 1½–2 inches ( 4–5cm ) wide with a clean folded edge top and bottom . |
| 16 | After all , in every other aspect of economic behaviour we now espouse a liberal philosophy . |
| 17 | On the contrary , we now know a great deal about Jesus 's milieu , and far more than most practising Christians realise about Palestine in the first century — its sociology , its economy , its politics , its cultural and religious character , its historical actuality . |
| 18 | Although we now know a great deal about person identification by face , we know very little about voice identification and almost nothing about how face and voice information are combined . |
| 19 | If we now compute a weighted sum , or what is the same thing , the sum of the A-measures at each exposure , then for a given subject area this sum will increase as the reflected light intensity increases , since more pixels will be seen at each exposure . |
| 20 | We now introduce a key property of Riemann spaces , namely that it is always possible to match any arbitrary region of such a space by a flat space provided that the region is taken small enough . |
| 21 | Having obtained B , we now select a pivotal element in it for the next step ; the selection is arbitrary except that the element must be nonzero and must not be in the second row , which contains the unit . |
| 22 | ‘ We now need a new party , one that is the heir and not a mere continuation of the present one . |
| 23 | We now describe a simple framework intended to link some of the conceptual aspects discussed above to the theoretical and empirical sections that follow . |
| 24 | We now consider a particular case , a simple ordered overlayer surface . |
| 25 | Keegan said : ‘ We now have a clearer picture of where we are going and we want to get the squad down to a manageable size . |
| 26 | A Hampshire Police spokesman said today : ‘ We can confirm we are reinvestigating the circumstances leading to the death of Steven Jarvis and we now have a 15-year-old girl in custody helping us with our inquiries . ’ |
| 27 | On a lighter note , if the ‘ body ’ got David Mellor into trouble , we now have a new Minister for Culture ( called National Heritage ) . |
| 28 | In the middle of the worst recession since the war we now have a new crop of party political broadcasts , and a fresh set of posters , both crafted with skill by the advertising industry 's finest , which have had an immediate effect . |
| 29 | ‘ But we now have a strong cash flow able to fund substantial development programmes , and decided it was time to tidy up the balance sheet . ’ |
| 30 | In other words , we now have a certain expectation of the sort of courtesy and level of service which we can receive from our public servants and that is something we have not had in the past . |