Example sentences of "[subord] it now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this early re-appraisal only in 1971 did the responsibility for the care of the mentally handicapped move back to the local authorities , where it now remains . |
| 2 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
| 3 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
| 4 | In 1977 it reformed as a more practical campaigning organization and moved to Mexico City where it now works with low-income women . |
| 5 | The Community 's authority would be extended to many areas , like health and education , where it now has no legal remit ; majority voting in the Council of Ministers would be reinforced ; the European Parliament would be given extra power to block laws it does not like ; and a small step might be taken towards a common EC defence policy . |
| 6 | It will maintain a sales and support network in the 150 countries where it now has a presence , but there may be cuts in both Wang employee numbers and the type of facilities it will operate . |
| 7 | This moved , long since , up to the campus , where it now has premises on one side of the main gateway . |
| 8 | Externally , much of the building retains its 19th century heritage , although it now houses the sophisticated roller mill system installed in 1976/77 . |
| 9 | It suggests Middlesbrough needs a wider choice of entertainment , bars , restaurants and shopping facilities than it now offers . |
| 10 | If the economy is weaker than it now appears — because , as some economists suggest , the government 's data have been inflated by unseasonably warm weather in January and February — then shares could fall sharply to reflect continued declines in company earnings . |
| 11 | The results show that Sweden can spend less than it now expects on district heating and electricity and still cut CO 2 emissions by 35 per cent by the year 2010 ( see Figure ) . |
| 12 | ‘ It used to live on us , on the surface of our skin , and eventually followed our skin — which falls off all the time in minute flakes — so it now feeds away from us , on those fallen skin scales . |
| 13 | From the beginnings of Christianity in the first century , the movement has continued t– spread until it now embraces every continent on earth . |
| 14 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 15 | If it now emerges that the Department of the Environment was over-generous to any of the water authorities last year , OFWAT has no choice but to live with the consequences . |
| 16 | If it now seems self-evident that monitoring of the global environment is necessary , indeed is even vital , the prediction of what is likely to happen is almost as important : the 170 000 people in the Maldives are understandably worried about the prospect of global sea-level change since no part of the islands is more than 2 m above present sea-level ! |
| 17 | Whores would sometimes don men 's apparel , leading to Charles I to issue an order forbidding it , because it now made whores more difficult to detect , but this was generally ignored by the soldiery . |
| 18 | By 1966 , the Church was better able to take advantage of the new interest in its separatist stance because it now had a core of Ulstermen who had been converted under Ian Paisley s preaching and who had grown up with his politicized evangelicalism . |
| 19 | Nor is the road between , say , Salisbury and Winchester necessarily medieval just because it now links the two medieval towns . |
| 20 | Sequoia Systems Inc , Marlborough , Massachusetts , is sinking deeper into the mire and now says it will restate its financial results for the year ended June 30 for the second time , and will amend its annual report on form 10K , because it now finds that it overstated its turnover . |
| 21 | Despite his casual dress of jeans and shirt , there was still an air of sophistication about him that was in sharp variance to those around him , and she cursed Donal again for his stupid sense of humour because it now put her in the most ridiculous position . |
| 22 | Bayfield says the US business can remain profitable at lower volumes because it now has a reduced cost base . |
| 23 | Under these altered conditions , emulation is increasingly significant as a strategy by means of which people lower in a given social hierarchy attempt to realize their aspirations towards higher status by modifying their behaviour , their dress and the kind of goods they purchase , since it now becomes possible to mistake a poor nobleman for a wealthy trader . |
| 24 | The Holme Post , recording a drop of 3.9 metres since 1850 , presents an unrealistically optimistic picture of the problem , since it now stands in a damp nature reserve . |
| 25 | This is officially the last of the Zodiacal constellations , though since it now contains the Vernal Equinox it really ought to be the first . |
| 26 | Aslib 's Index to Theses is the other source of thesis information , greatly improved since it now includes thesis abstracts . |
| 27 | Since then , the forces of continental drift have continued to pull the two continents apart , widening the Atlantic , but the habit of returning to the sea each year to spawn has never been broken even though it now involves such an immense journey . |
| 28 | And so , in synthesis , there are still the exploited and exploiters , there is still economic manipulation and surplus value ( though it now encompasses the emotional as well as the physical ) . |
| 29 | It is a good example of construction in masonry though it now possesses only four of the original 22 arches which spanned the river . |
| 30 | The plans , like those prepared in 1939 , included structural provision for two transepts , near the pulpit , to be built at a later stage , though it now seems unlikely that this will ever happen . |