Example sentences of "[noun pl] now [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light was not on in his room behind him , and from outside Mr Wolski might have seemed no more than an insubstantial shape , the reds and blues of his pyjamas now turned into grim black stripes against white , such as some of the prisoners in Nazi death camps of the Second World War had worn . |
| 2 | It 's not just ice hockey players ; there are several teams of figure skaters now left without a rink to practice or compete on . |
| 3 | After closure , the majority of parents expressed preference for the larger schools now attended by their children , though their links with the school had diminished . |
| 4 | Secondary education , mainly in schools now known as grammar schools , was available nationally for 20% of children over the age of eleven , with pronounced regional variations . |
| 5 | If homoeopathy is such an individual way of treating you — for example , one person with influenza may have quite a different medicine from another person with it — what is the value of homoeopathic remedies now seen on many chemists ' shelves which could be used by people who are not aware that the choice of a remedy has to be selected according to a number of factors , not just by a simple set of symptoms ? |
| 6 | Worries now shifted to the higher prices and to what became known as the ‘ recycling problem ’ . |
| 7 | The first paper bag , by my left knee , had held the four little packets now strewn beside it . |
| 8 | Purley depôt was deemed to have completed its task as an annexe to Charlton Works by 29 November 1949 and was available to take the cars now housed at Thornton Heath . |
| 9 | From the elegant small lounges to the beautifully appointed bedrooms located in the villa ( or in the neighbouring annexe residence at a reduction ) , and the former stables now turned into a charming restaurant , everything here speaks of innate good taste . |
| 10 | His eyes now lit by a weak leer of hope , Barometer Barnes closed me out on the pink 35–43 . |
| 11 | Then , ‘ I thought you beautiful before , ’ he remarked quietly , his sincere dark eyes now fixed on her large green ones . |
| 12 | In the tense silence which followed this remark , all eyes now turned upon the couple who had been fetched from their bedroom ; the couple who had decided that any further diet of delightful architecture would have amounted to a sort of cultural force-feeding . |
| 13 | The relatively cumbersome medium of microfilm has never presented the sort of opportunities now presented by digitisation , for bringing together collections of complementary material which have been physically separated for decades or even centuries . |
| 14 | The windows were mere arrow-slits now blocked by wooden shutters ; the air was so damp with a pervasive chill that Queen Margaret insisted fires be lit in her rooms before she retired for the night . |
| 15 | Perhaps half of those who had previously voted for the middle-class parties now voted for the NSDAP . |
| 16 | Rallies began in Dushanbe , the capital , organized by the " united bloc of democratic forces " ( the opposition parties now included in the government coalition ) , demanding Nabiyev 's resignation because of his poor control over the situation . |
| 17 | There were about 350,000 marriages last year and 174,000 divorces compared with 398,000 and 156,000 respectively in 1981 and remarriages now accounted for 36 per cent of all marriages . |
| 18 | Civilians will be employed as office supervisors , research assistants , counter staff , clerks , detention officers and general administrators posts now filled by police officers . |
| 19 | Shoes now priced at £56.95 will be £26.95 , others at £72.95 will be down to £32.95 . |
| 20 | On the other hand , standard NT ‘ will include at no extra charge many of the same functions now handled by NetWare . |
| 21 | Since the loss of their monopoly as the ruling party , the communists now accounted for half the Politburo ; the rest represented the different parties who now shared power . |
| 22 | ‘ The Robin ’ was originally created in 1862 , and is one of 367 rare colour plates now held at The Natural History Museum , London . |
| 23 | Poland had already , in the spring of 1991 , joined the list of countries now considered by the Spanish immigration authorities to enjoy democratic political systems . |
| 24 | This is especially true of those pubs now targeted by the breweries as centres for family eating . |
| 25 | These are the areas now ruined by salt . |
| 26 | Downland breeding species such as the Dartford Warbler , Grasshopper Warbler , Stonechat , Wheatear , and Stone Curlew used to be found in areas now covered by residential and industrial development , and some species dependent on beaches have been severely reduced , such as the Little Tern and the Ringed Plover . |
| 27 | Although the basic position of the continents had remained unchanged since the Mesozoic , variations in the sea level might have opened up land passages between areas now separated by shallow seas . |
| 28 | They appear to have been settled in the seventh century in areas now known as Kosovo , Montenegro and Bosnia . |
| 29 | With a third of all health authorities and trusts now thought to be entertaining the idea of introducing job evaluation schemes for nurses , warning noises are beginning to be sounded from all quarters . |
| 30 | Underlying the offences now found in Part III is the assumption that a serious threat to public order is inherent in certain forms of expression . |