Example sentences of "[verb] now [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas Brown has now been languishing behind Indian bars since the end of 1990 . |
| 2 | The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular . |
| 3 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 4 | NICOLA Delacour ( 18 ) , from Newtownards used to work in a building society but has now been modelling for nearly a year . |
| 5 | THE paper recycling pilot scheme at LASMO 's Broadgate office has now been running for six months — and the amount of paper being collected each week has doubled . |
| 6 | Shirley branch has now been trading for 3O years , and to celebrate its birthday a dinner-dance is being held at the Novotel Hotel in Southampton on October 16 . |
| 7 | And let's face it , Focus Now is going to be different . ’ |
| 8 | The majority of our assignment I would think now are getting to the resale position . |
| 9 | You could drink now be driving for hours . |
| 10 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 11 | The repatriation of Yugoslavs had now been proceeding for a week . |
| 12 | It is hard to believe that Joan and I have now been staying on the east coast for six months . |
| 13 | The first candidates have now been enrolling for the new , operational system , following the successful completion of the pilot phases of the Advanced Courses Development Programme during 1988–90 . |
| 14 | We have now been marching for more than four hours , it 's still very dark . |
| 15 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 16 | Both have now been running for over 12 months , and the operating figures indicate that in addition to encouraging returns from food sales , drink sales have increased by approximately 10 per cent . |