Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] now [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ?
2 We are increasingly accustomed to questioning the eternal validity of social roles , and we now recognise that the way in which we define masculinity and femininity , ‘ motherhood ’ and ‘ fatherhood ’ , even ‘ childhood ’ , are culturally specific and often bear little relationship to the expected or ascribed roles in other cultures , nor are they , of course , simple products of biology .
3 IBM Corp is leaving launch of the new top-end mainframe disk drive to its AdStar unit in San Jose , and it now appears that the introduction has been brought forward to tomorrow — perhaps in an effort to steal Hitachi Data Systems Inc 's thunder .
4 However , it should be noted that Scrutton LJ 's words were said in a case involving a contract between commercial parties and it now seems that the insistence that public policy is primarily concerned with holding people to their agreements is now out of favour .
5 The original enquiries about this were directed to the County Surveyor 's Department , but I now understand that the work on the boundary sign was done on behalf of the County Planning Department .
6 But we now know that the dominant leader of the herd is the old matriarch and that the big bulls are forced to live out their lives in solitary splendour on the fringes of elephant society .
7 Without calculating moments of inertia about three Cartesian axes we can not be sure which band-type corresponds to which of the three IR-active symmetry species , but we now know that the B-axis is associated with a 1 vibrations , and is therefore the z axis .
8 For instance , in 1936 the style of certain Athenian coins was compared with that of other arts , and the conclusion was drawn that the coins were produced at the same time as the other objects , i.e. , 565BC ; but we now believe that the true date of these coins is some sixty years later .
9 Except for the first two days , the decaying component is well fitted by an exponential with 18-day time constant , but we now see that the glitch also leaves a nondecaying increase in rotation rate .
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