Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] now [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The paragraphs which now follow single out some of the more important , more specialised , local collections , and particularly those which are likely to be of value to researchers working over a fairly wide geographical area , or concentrating on a single subject .
2 All the Smarties have gone from the plates which now have small pink morsels on .
3 Inevitably the early history of anthropology became closely allied to the history of Darwinian evolutionary theory and many controversies which now seem obscure relate to the burning debates surrounding the concept of natural selection .
4 Nowell , a solicitor , and his wife Penny have taken thirty years to develop the lovely garden at Baubles which now boasts ornamental and wildlife ponds and a wide variety of trees , shrubs , a tennis court and a swimming pool .
5 Yet she felt little had been done to address this problem in school and if in these circumstances she now accepted residential school she would be giving up on Tom .
6 But the main intended beneficiaries of the new law are unlikely to be able to afford the rents at places they now have legal access to .
7 There are stone pots and earthenware ones with luxury glazes , ancient pots that you find at house sales in the country , and , of course , plastic pots which now come textured and coloured so closely to terracotta that they can not be told apart .
8 But the finding has worried council officers who now want urgent talks with Harwell .
9 It seems rather ironic that we are going to make life more difficult for the vast majority of English speaking North American graduates when under European Community regulations we now grant full registration to doctors from several European countries .
10 But the pivoting glances which now fell full upon Sam and Vera Kronquist almost immediately reverted to Chief Inspector Morse as the latter rounded off his background summary .
11 This example of failure to protest may seem too vast in the context of life in Britain in the 1980s and the many smaller , separate issues which now generate domestic protest .
12 In an attempt to avoid rural unrest , Chamorro confirmed that it would be impossible to return land confiscated and distributed among peasants who now held legal title or that which had been confiscated for important public purposes .
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