Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] now [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A question mark now hangs over the future of the yard , but nephew Peter Cheesbrough has been granted a temporary licence to continue operations . |
| 2 | A cash injection now followed by income from transfer tribunals would guarantee their immediate future and dash Halifax 's hopes of escaping relegation to the Vauxhall Conference . |
| 3 | What it means for ‘ us ’ is not so much the resurrection of ‘ anti-pop ’ , but a culture of margins ; a disdainful gaze upon the terrain we once occupied , a satellite relationship to a pop centre now barred to us . |
| 4 | On the thorny question of the failure of the Goya ‘ Portrait of Dona Maria Teresa de Vallabriga y Rozas ’ ( lot 342 ) , unsold at £600,000 Charles Beddington noted that prices for Goya paintings are still puzzlingly low ( particularly as the record price for a Goya drawing now stands at £600,000 ) while he felt that a recession-led caution may have contributed to the lack of interest in the Zurbarán , bought in at £900,000 ( est. £1.2–1.6 million ) . |
| 5 | An eighteen-year-old boy who had flown from India to marry a Calcutta girl now living in Liverpool was detained for three days by the officials , who suspected him of being under age and of using marriage as a trick to get a work permit . |
| 6 | The survey told us that we had very few 11-19 year old visitors — an age group now catered for increasingly by our educational activities . |