Example sentences of "it [modal v] now [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surge of inquiries for new cars after the five per cent tax cut in the Budget was subdued by election uncertainty ; it should now become a flow of firm orders . |
| 2 | It could now face a flood of prosecutions across the country . |
| 3 | What was crucial here as far as Chicago was concerned was that it could now boast a movie theatre as good as anything in New York and that the movies had been decisively disassociated from ‘ immoral ’ ragtime music by now being coupled with the Symphony . |
| 4 | It would now take a motorist burping their horn or a dog barking nearby to get her hopping mad , which was real progress . |
| 5 | UK , Cambridge-based Tadpole Technology plc is putting bells and whistles on its SparcBook notebook : it can now offer a colour active matrix display and up to 360Mb of disk . |