Example sentences of "[vb -s] now [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the government has now bowed to pressure and announced that it would act as ‘ insurer of last resort ’ for terrorist bomb damage on the British mainland . |
| 2 | That number has now increased to some 340,000. 95% of patients are detained without their consent , at a rate of 250 per 100,000 population , compared with just 2.5 per 100,000 in Europe . |
| 3 | The first prize has now gone to Dr Richard Gentle , a specialist in fluid mechanics at Nottingham University . |
| 4 | Mr Habibullah is still missing , the matter has now gone to the Lahore High Court , and the assembly 's fate will be decided when Mr Sharif 's friends produce the unfortunate Mr Habibullah next week . |
| 5 | In an essay written with Watt in 1963 ( in Goody , ed. 1968 ) , Goody sets out to counter-balance the relativism of his colleagues in anthropology which , he feels , ‘ has now gone to the point of denying that the distinction between non-literate and literate societies has any significant validity ’ . |
| 6 | He reckons the pendulum has now swung to the other extreme where people acquire false regional accents to enhance their campaign cred . |
| 7 | The formerly reviled ghetto culture has now begun to be absorbed by fashion designers of the Nineties , who are discovering beauty in deals outside the white middle-class mainstream . |
| 8 | Suppose for example there are two remaining producers in an industry which has now contracted to the point when it can profitably support only one firm . |
| 9 | When I purchased the Emperor it was 1½″ long but has now grown to over 3″ . |
| 10 | The WHAM team has now grown to over 350 people and we are pleased to announce that they will all be coming to QP on the first Wednesday in April to lead the business meeting . |
| 11 | The idea behind this policy was to try and expand the software and services side of ICL 's business , which has now grown to £600m a year . |
| 12 | He has a small ‘ spot ’ on the side of his nose , which has now grown to the size of a sesame seed . |
| 13 | Nick Wright of the Photo Co-op also took four or five groups around the exhibition , and some 400 Education Packs were sent to schools around the country , explaining what Magnum is , how it started with a small band of six , and how it has now grown to over a hundred , with offices in New York , Paris and London . |
| 14 | Although this literature has now grown to gargantuan proportions , Owens has also managed to discern a number of themes and trends . |
| 15 | The Schedule has now grown to a total of 5,600 sites in Scotland , with over 300 being added each year . |
| 16 | The business that Mike began has now transferred to new premises , it no longer makes cider but apple juice . |
| 17 | But the problem has now transferred to the town centre , where crowds of young people , sometimes in excess of 150 , are gathering at weekends . |
| 18 | This company has now expanded to three other yards including the former British Shipbuilders Hadrian Yard ( Clellands ) at Wallsend , and the Wallsend Slip way which had been operated by Howard Doris Ltd. for the offshore industry until the demise of that operation in 1986 . |
| 19 | One year after the Intifada began , some 49 per cent of the population favoured it ; according to the latest poll , the number has now risen to 52 per cent . |
| 20 | The population in 1961 was 629 but has now risen to just over 800 and will probably remain at this due to the closeness of BP Chemicals which dominates the skyline at Saltend . |
| 21 | Membership of the Open Software Foundation has now risen to 350 , the organisation said last week . |
| 22 | For example , in the mid-1960s less than a third of the students at university were girls ; that figure has now risen to over 40 per cent and is probably still rising ( Blackstone , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | That has now risen to around 11:1 and if the squeeze goes on could go even higher . |
| 24 | That figure has now risen to some 86 per cent. , which shows the Government 's achievement . |
| 25 | I understand that that estimate has now risen to £58 million . |
| 26 | The council observes that the estimated total cost , including preliminary expenses , has now risen to in excess of £63 million , and that that does not include the costs of disruption during the construction period . |
| 27 | The search for other materials to analyse has now progressed to copper alloys . |
| 28 | Scotch Whisky 's decline has now accelerated to the extent that sales in the UK are collapsing at the rate of 1 million cases per annum . |
| 29 | With Wang in Chapter 11 , Sun has now ascended to the Standard & Poor 's 500 . |
| 30 | The search for animals which can identify kin has now led to the discovery that honey bees discriminate between full and half sisters . |