Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [pron] [be] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trick is to give away what you reasonably can , to put straight into the waste-paper basket everything which it is not absolutely necessary to do anything about , or which it is now too late to do anything about , and then to begin to nibble away at the rest . |
| 2 | But now apparently there 's a , this with this seating or something there 's now can hold thirty one . |
| 3 | PERESTROIKA and Glasnost have been the buzzwords coming out of the USSR ( or whatever it is now going to be called ) in recent years and the aviation world too , has been buzzing with exciting words like Fw 190 , Hampden , Hurricane , and Yak-1 . |
| 4 | In the Bishop 's case the brewery is Scottish and Newcastle in the local it is Camerons or Wolverhampton Breweries , or whatever it is now and there was no choice . |
| 5 | For the hazard he now claims to recognise is essentially that which several of us have been patiently trying to explain to psychiatrists and others for the past twelve years or so and one which is now officially acknowledged in several overseas countries . |
| 6 | Giverny has become a monument to America 's infatuation with Monet — an infatuation which has been at least partly responsible for the exorbitant prices until recently given for his paintings , and one which is now shared with the Japanese Monet had lived there since 1884 , first renting a farm house with two and a half acres , then buying it , gradually making additions such as a studio , and extending the attached land to accommodate his famous Japanese garden and lake . |
| 7 | His own father John Melia ( no relation to actor Joe ) was a professional , if reluctant , boxer , and he himself is now 47 , the age Mills was when he died . |
| 8 | George Storr told me that his father , John Robert Storr , organised it originally and he himself was now involved in the organisation . |
| 9 | Surely you see a difference between me , who wrote long , incoherent , and enthusiastic letters , enjoyed perfectly the songs of birds and the sight of a sundown , believed in the possibility of perfect happiness , perfect beauty , perfect purity , and a perfect world , all perfected , too , by that thing Nature which was so real to me ; a difference between me then and thus , and what I am now , dull unenthusiastic , unimaginative , but more coherent and prudent , though still imprudent enough to write such things as that Sonnet , which even you esteem bad , I think … . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the level of unemployment in 1979 , 1983 and 1987 ; and what it is now . |
| 11 | The system may have developed from seed parasitism , but it itself is now parasitized by other wasps ovipositing through the syconium wall . |
| 12 | But what we are now faced with more clearly than in his other claims for the consequences of literacy is an argument based on socially relative judgement and ideology . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not a lover of the verbal reasoning test , ’ he goes on , ‘ But what we are now doing is abandoning one system when we have n't perfected its replacement . |