Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun] now [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dublin-born Le Brocquy , who is 77 this autumn now lives in the south if France . |
| 2 | It is my pleasure and privilege to present to members of the Chartered Institute of Transport in the UK the first separate Chairman 's Report and Accounts since we in the UK became one of the nine National Councils now established by the Institute under the successful re-organisation approved by the Council . |
| 3 | IN pursuance of the said agreement and in consideration of the sum of FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS now paid by the Purchaser to the Vendor ( the receipt of which sum the Vendor hereby acknowledges ) the Vendor as beneficial owner hereby conveys unto the Purchaser ALL THAT Garage known as Number 47 West Street aforesaid in the County of Gloucester all which said property is more particularly described in the annexed plan and outlined in red TO HOLD the same unto the Purchaser in fee simple together with the benefit of but subject also to a restrictive covenant contained in a Conveyance dated the Twenty-fifth day of May One thousand nine hundred and thirty-four made between the Stroud Brewery Company Limited of the one part and William Thomson deceased of the other part but otherwise free from incumbrances . |
| 4 | Hay fever has increased four-fold over the last 20 years , with some five million people now suffering from the condition . |
| 5 | A committed runner himself and one of the original running shoe repair specialists , Davis claims that compared with the boom years of the mid-eighties fewer people now look to the skills of the cobbler . |
| 6 | The first paper bag , by my left knee , had held the four little packets now strewn beside it . |
| 7 | The French kept the two substantial islands now known as Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island , just to the north of the peninsula , and also the area of the mainland between the peninsula and the St. Lawrence which is now known as New Brunswick . |
| 8 | Thirty thousand people now worked for the brothers ' resource companies in addition to the many thousands they employed in the construction of their property . |
| 9 | Having spent a couple of hours checking his rabbit snares around the low Severn grounds , the two fat rabbits now secure in his waist bag would indicate that this could be his lucky night It was now one thirty a.m . |
| 10 | More than 6 million single people now live in their own home . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , at France 's repeated entreaty and in a spirit of generous cooperation , two Russian armies now advanced into East Prussia in order to honour that commitment . |
| 12 | More than a million expatriate Britons now live in South Africa , taking advantage of the higher standard of living caused by excellent exchange rates . |
| 13 | 1.68 Automatic directions now apply to the interlocutory stages of most personal injury actions in the High Court and personal injury actions in a county court . |
| 14 | An answer can only be given in the kind of perspective which the processes of East-West reconciliation and arms control may , in any case , create : a perspective in which the strategic factors progressively diminish in importance , until the 19 Soviet divisions now stationed in the GDR have no more significance than a knight or bishop stranded on a square of a chessboard which no longer figures in the game . |