Example sentences of "[noun sg] have now [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This retailer has now taken it off the shelves whilst Gloucestershire 's Trading Standards Department investigates .
2 Externally , apart from general repair work , replacement of the windows , and landscaping , little has changed , although the building has now lost the look of a working mill .
3 The Ministry of Agriculture has now concluded that there is virtually no problem from salmonella in eggs ; and what problem there is will not be eased by going around the country slaughtering flocks of hens .
4 IBM Corp has now fallen back on the reliable method of pre-announcement for its OS/2 promotion campaign .
5 Nippon Steel Corp has now reached agreement for Hitachi Ltd to transfer to it the technology to manufacture 4M-bit memory chips : the chips will be made at NMB Semiconductor Ltd , which will become Nippon Steel Semiconductor Corp when the steel company acquires the Minebea Co unit later this month ; Hitachi will take some of the parts and sell them under its own name ; Nippon Steel says it has already concluded similar agreements with Intel Corp and Sony Corp on production of other types of memory chip .
6 Bell Atlantic Corp has now reached agreement to sell 108.9m shares in Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd to BZW New Zealand Ltd , leaving it with 29.56% of Telecom , in line with government demand ; settlement is due next week ; no price given .
7 Fraud-ravaged Guntersville , Alabama-based Comptronix Corp has now completed the restructuring of its bank credit agreements and is ready to execute its 1993 business plan .
8 Cambridge , Massachusetts-based Spinnaker Software Corp has now completed the acquisition of Power Up Software Inc for $18.5m in cash , plus the assumption of some debt : the acquisition was financed through the purchase of preferred stock by Harvard Management Co , which bought $23m of series B preferred stock redeemable at the company 's option and convertible into shares of common stock at a rate of $1.50 or $2.25 per share .
9 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp has now confirmed that it hopes to reduce its workforce by 33,000 positions by the end of March 1997 .
10 Microsoft Corp has now confirmed that general availability of NT has slipped into 1993 — January or February , it says .
11 IBM Corp has now wrapped up the deal under which it hands over MAPICS to Marcam Corp in return for 1.615m new shares in its partner .
12 With Ingres Corp and Informix Software Inc already won over to CAFS Content-Addressable File Store-based database Search Accelerator hardware , ICL says that Oracle Systems Corp has now signed to implement a version of its database for the system , while Sybase Inc is waiting in the wings to follow suit .
13 Canton , Massachusetts-based Perception Technology Corp has now signed definitive agreement to be acquired by Brite Voice Systems Inc : Perception holders get one share of Brite common for each Perception held .
14 Redwood Shores , California-based Communication Intelligence Corp has now signed with the Nantong Electronics Development Investment Co in China the outline terms of its proposed joint venture to market pen-based business computer systems to China 's business and government sectors ; the US company will invest some $2.6m in cash , shares or both .
15 As expected ( UX No 394 ) , Unify Corp has now launched the Accell/TP toolkit it has developed in league with ICL .
16 Expanding on the agreement that AT&T 's Computer Systems Division forged with Banyan Systems Inc last year , NCR Corp has now sealed a pact with the Westborough , Massachusetts-based company , said to be worth $25m over the next three years : NCR is to market and support Banyan 's Unix-based Vines network operating system — in the US and Canada initially , worldwide at a later date — whilst Banyan distributors will be able to sell NCR products .
17 Expanding on the agreement that AT&T 's Computer Systems Division forged with Banyan Systems Inc last year , NCR Corp has now sealed a pact with the Westborough , Massachusetts-based company , said to be worth $25m over the next three years : NCR is to market and support Banyan 's Unix-based Vines network operating system — in the US and Canada initially , worldwide at a later date — whilst Banyan distributors will be able to sell NCR products .
18 IBM Corp has now shipped 700,000 copies of OS/2 2.0 since it announced the product on March 31 and claims it has exceeded its initial unit sales projection — ‘ We 're well on track to surpass many industry expectations , ’ it said , but Reuter notes that IBM has previously said its expects to sell ‘ millions ’ of copies of OS/2 this year but has never provided a specific forecast .
19 That settlement has now come through you 'll see the details in the papers er but we also want to have regard to the fact that the award for the and bridges has actually been reduced substantially by thousand pounds the total reduction in that area approach one point five million pounds .
20 The story has now prompted a response from Mr John Dumigan , acting chief officer for the South Eastern Group of Councils for Building Regulation Control , who has outlined the exact situation faced by buildings open to the public .
21 If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium .
22 A vicar has now joined the ranks of the unemployed and signed on the dole .
23 Salt has received much bad publicity in recent years as a major contributory factor to heart disease , but the initial hysteria has now given way to the theory that salt in quantity will only be to the detriment of those people prone to heart disease from other causes .
24 For a few months , I entertained a ray of hope that after many , many years there was now less need for young men to face death in battle , but that hope has now died .
25 The speaker driver has now found its way onto many private BBS systems as well , and we would n't be at all surprised to see it popping up in shareware catalogues very soon .
26 ‘ I believe the storm has now blown itself out and that 1993 is a year for recovery and replanting . ’
27 Economic and political change has now blurred differences between ways of life then distinct .
28 The 23-year-old back rower has now made it clear that he wants to play Rugby League in England this season after scrapping his contract with Australia 's champion club Penrith .
29 The score at Dens Park and Parkhead decreed that Willie Miller 's defence has now conceded fewer goals than any other club in the top flight of the Scottish game , the Aberdeen rearguard having been breached only 26 times .
30 The sculptural group for which it was originally intended as a pedestal has now gone and the proportion of the arch appears too tall and narrow .
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