Example sentences of "[noun] now [verb] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most schools now offer classes on radio , television and film techniques . |
| 2 | The Department now offers classes in music , dance , art and sculpture as well as courses in theatre , scriptwriting for TV and film , journalism and creative writing . |
| 3 | Although not all the Tory dissidents now discussing tactics over individual bills were among the 60 who withheld their votes from her last Tuesday , the arithmetic of the leadership election does raise the question of whether she can rely on her Commons majority in the coming battles . |
| 4 | The insurers now have groups of approved repairers and it is often easier for a customer to use those , than to go off and find their own repairer . |
| 5 | Mr Peter Shuker , the principal , said the college now had links with France , Germany , Italy , Greece , Spain , Portugal , Denmark , Czechoslovakia and Hungary . |
| 6 | More than one in ten of youngsters now gets clothes from Adams . |
| 7 | In its first few lines , the rewritten passage now offers reasons for organising the essay in the way that has been chosen , and so connects the answer more directly with the question . |
| 8 | Birmingham 's neo-Classical Town Hall now hosts concerts by many visiting orchestras and smaller ensembles too . |
| 9 | In one fell swoop , Virgin had acquired that most elusive of qualities , ‘ street credibility ’ ; the company roster now boasted groups like Magazine , Penetration , the Members , the Skids — what was becoming known as New Wave , a marketing term used to denote almost any performer that had emerged in the aftermath of punk who did not spit in his audience 's eye . |
| 10 | Yet most countries now have rules against insider dealing , not least because it can put outside investors off securities markets . |
| 11 | Most supermarkets now stock packets of mixed rice . |
| 12 | Similarly , the pre-First World War diction now creates moments of unintentional comedy , as when the figure of Christ says to John , ‘ You must play fair , ’ or when John 's plunge into the pool of faith is described as ‘ he took a header ’ . |
| 13 | The majority of British universities now send copies of their theses to the British Library ( BLDSC ) for microfilming . |
| 14 | Nissan now assembles engines at Smyrna and Washington from imported kits ; it now plans to spend $600m on a new engine plant at Smyrna . |
| 15 | The Group now holds interests in 20 fields in production . |
| 16 | A thick black slick now covers parts of Cannop brook , where once the water flowed clear . |
| 17 | Consequently , some Brazilians now regard BNDES as a relic of the 1950s , useful in its day but no longer a major instrument of development policy . |
| 18 | It is another offering from Epic Megagames whose name now guarantees hours of fun . |
| 19 | Finally many sociology departments in higher education now run courses on Gender Divisions . |
| 20 | Since the SSL had received an increasing number of enquiries about standards , and as BSI now places restrictions on the type of standards it is willing to lend , the SSL now has complete sets of the Standards of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers ( IEEE ) and the American Society for Testing of Materials ( ASTM ) , and Comité Consultatif International Télégraphique et Téléphonique ( CCITT ) blue books . |
| 21 | The 1987–8 statistics show some improvement : female postgraduates now outnumber men in social sciences , languages , librarianship and medical studies ( i.e. subjects such as pharmacy and nursing ) as well as education ( UGC 1988 ) . |
| 22 | Turns out that that Game Genie sold by Lewis Galoob Toys Inc in the US that enables players to alter the parameters of games , and which Nintendo Co failed to persuade the US Supreme Court to declare illegal ( CI No 2,135 ) , is a British product : according to the Mail on Sunday , the thing comes from Codemasters Software Ltd of Leamington Spa , whose share of the $15m award to Lewis Galoob came to $3.4m ; Codemasters now has sights on Japan . |
| 23 | Staff in Virgin 's international department grew to accept the fact of opening Music Week to read that Virgin now had offices in fifteen countries ( a slight exaggeration ) , and would shortly open in a further five ( It 's the first we 've heard of it , Richard has to be kidding ! ) . |
| 24 | Going via Hamburg , Harry now had troubles in the form of a punctured front tyre , and ‘ tummy-trouble ’ resulting from a surfeit of apples and vegetables . |
| 25 | Ecstasy tablets now change hands for £20 a time . |
| 26 | Few library authorities now give allocations to individual service points , since the benefits of gearing stock provision to a larger geographical area are widely recognized . |
| 27 | I believe that Eton now admits women to its sixth form , but nevertheless there could be no serious doubt about which was the man and which was the woman . |
| 28 | Amelia now spends weekends at home with her parents and during the week boards at the Lord Mayor Treloar College in Hampshire , from where she was nominated to join Dreamflight . |
| 29 | Caroline explained that as well as checking claims in the advertising material you get through the post , the ASA now prevents companies from misusing any personal data they collect . |
| 30 | Sometimes the rug is simply washed in water and then left out in the sun to dry , but many weaving groups now add chemicals to the water in order both to alter the tonal intensity of the colours and to give the pile a gloss or matt sheen . |