Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] now [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her never-failing enthusiasm and dedication helped to build the strong support now enjoyed in this area , and although she is now retired , she still attends a weekly class . |
| 2 | But Scotland , with an economic base now concentrated on light rather than heavy industry , and services and decision-making centres far away from Edinburgh and Glasgow , can not hope to be spared the effects of recession . |
| 3 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
| 4 | Interim review now included by auditors |
| 5 | Charities for the homeless report that 5,000 new people a year arrive on the streets and that the total figure now stands at a staggering 300,000 for the whole country . |
| 6 | They drove slowly around the streets of old houses now cramped by lines of parked cars . |
| 7 | Among the different groups now contending for influence , the most important are the democratic reformers , the men and women who stood in recent local elections on platforms that broadly advocated multi-party politics and bolder economic change . |
| 8 | In an era when the commercial opportunities now open to leading players often become a bigger issue that the game itself , the recent actions of the USA Eagles make news for an entirely different reason . |
| 9 | The wet skirt and jumper , and the black , curly wig now hang across two chairbacks , before the hearth ; their owner , I think , looks rather fetching if completely out of character — in one of Anya 's flannel shirts and a pair of faded denims with the cuffs rolled up . |
| 10 | The broken bricks now lie in the living room . |
| 11 | These are deep waters , but our cultural future now crawls with signs of a barely rational obsession with great memorial feasts , a never-ending British Day of the Dead . |
| 12 | Have you proper guards now looking after the horses ? ’ |
| 13 | He fought Christ 's battles there for ten years — it must have been like our brave missionaries now going into the wildest and most uncivilised parts of Africa — because the pagan King Morken was his enemy and envied the fame of Kentigern . |
| 14 | For example , where does informed thinking now stand on the future of the railways , or , for that matter , the development of alternative energy sources ? |
| 15 | 2.5 The second , and more important , cause of action that English law now allows on death is the independent cause of action given to the near relatives of the deceased who have been deprived of his or her support or services . |
| 16 | Ace was lounging on the sofa next to her , his shoeless feet now resting on the table next to the coffee , Kate 's glances of distaste having been completely ignored . |
| 17 | It was evidently during the reign of Harthacnut ( 1040 – 2 ) that a St Omer churchman wrote the untitled Latin work now known as the Encomium Emmae . |
| 18 | British membership now stood at 1,639 but the overnight total had been augmented by many European trampers , a trend which was widely welcomed as a sign of real internationalism : ‘ This summer our hostels housed a miniature League of Nations ’ , claimed the Manchester and District Ramblers ' Federation Handbook in 1932 . |
| 19 | A heart-breaking wail now rose from those who had not been killed outright . |
| 20 | Middlesbrough battled every inch of the way to gain a creditable 0–0 draw and only a second leg at Old Trafford now lies between Middlesbrough and their second Wembley Cup Final in two years . |
| 21 | Suppose that such a ‘ Bill ’ received the ‘ Royal Assent ’ having passed both Houses , and that a disgruntled Scottish Unionist now seeks from the Court of Session a declarator that it is still in business . |
| 22 | The high sea levels of the Pleistocene , corresponding to the interglacials , are often held to have been responsible for highly degraded marine terraces now found at altitudes up to about 70 m ( 230 ft ) above present sea level . |
| 23 | The old by-streets now swarmed with passengers and vehicles of every kind ; the new streets that had stopped disheartened in the mud and wagon-ruts , formed towns within themselves , originating wholesome comforts and conveniences belonging to themselves , and never tried nor thought of until they sprung into existence . |
| 24 | In view of his admission some weeks ago that this Government have imposed the heaviest tax burden in British history , will the right hon. Gentleman now apologise for the Chancellor 's wholly inaccurate statement to the House yesterday that the Government have been cutting taxes ever since 1979 ? |
| 25 | Should not the right hon. Gentleman now apologise for the false promises that he made in 1991 ? |
| 26 | ‘ Sixty per cent of British trade now goes to EC countries and the UK is the most attractive country for direct inward foreign investment after the States . |
| 27 | All my different uniforms now smelt of ‘ Ziggi ’ . |
| 28 | Also significant was the high priority now accorded in allied air war strategy to targeting the mobile Scud launchers used in the attacks . |
| 29 | A 200-year-old French aristocrat now living in New Orleans , he is sexy , funny and highly charismatic . |
| 30 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |