Example sentences of "and [is] now [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chinese herbal medicine — for 4,000 years a mystery to the west — has become phenomenally popular in the USA and is now beginning to establish a foothold in Europe . |
| 2 | She split up with her husband some months ago and is now struggling to cope with two young children while facing continual abuse . |
| 3 | He used to spend millions on race horses and is now looking to spend his money elsewhere ! |
| 4 | Atreus has bought URSI , a dormant US company , transferred the listing to the UK , bought DB(UK) a small unlisted firm making screens and mirrors under the Selecta brand name , and is now looking to raise £5 million net of expenses through a placing of 11.25 million shares with clients of the broker , Sheppard , and a public share offer at 20p . |
| 5 | GORDON WATSON has emerged from the Hillsborough shadows and is now poised to spearhead Sheffield Wednesday 's UEFA Cup assault on Kaiserslautern tonight . |
| 6 | But Mr Major is likely be in power with the smallest Tory majority since 1951 and is now placed to take advantage of disarray in the Opposition parties and the expected economic recovery . |
| 7 | Since he has been in Deerbolt , he has passed his GCSE 's and is now trying to get a place catering college when he gets out next year . |
| 8 | His proud mother , Rita Coyne , said : ‘ He has struggled for two and a half years and is now determined to live life to the full . ’ |
| 9 | Mal Gibb joined a Lancaster scheme after a degree in systems modelling at Sheffield Polytechnic and is now helping to develop computerised production at Nairn Kingfisher , a wallpaper plant on the Lancaster quayside . |
| 10 | Mal Gibb joined a Lancaster scheme after a degree in systems modelling at Sheffield Polytechnic and is now helping to develop computerised production at Nairn Kingfisher , a wallpaper plant on the Lancaster quayside . |
| 11 | These maxima were subject to the proviso that ‘ in such shires and countries that where it hath been and is now used to give less wages , that in those shires and countries they shall give and the taker of the wages be compelled according as they have been used to take . |
| 12 | Naturally , the greater part of the volume of this room is within the roof space and a consequence of this is that a small pre-existing ventilation opening , which was sited high up below the eaves of the barn and is now glazed to form a window , has its sill at floor level . |
| 13 | He was also associated with the preparation of the 1988 White Paper on political reform , another constitutional milestone , and is now tipped to succeed Donald Liao , the outgoing Secretary for District Administration , as a member of the Sino-British Joint Liaision Group , the diplomatic body which monitors technical aspects of the transition . |
| 14 | Sarron spent his entire GP career with Sonauto and Gauloises and is now working to find new sponsors for the team . |
| 15 | This phenomenon was termed polar wandering and is now thought to arise from the movements of the continents themselves rather than from any significant shift in the location of the magnetic pole itself . |
| 16 | He enjoyed popularity during the eighties with his Gator deck , then faded away , and is now threatening to re-emerge stronger then ever . |
| 17 | PAUL MERSON has kicked the booze , tamed the gambling and is now battling to beat his addiction to … crisps . |
| 18 | The company has produced a first generation of plants from the modified seeds , and is now waiting to see if they will reproduce to a new generation , containing the implanted genes . |
| 19 | At this point he said , quite rightly , ‘ Sod this for a lark ! ’ and is now planning to have a batch of tensile steel rods made up by a colleague who owns an engineering firm . |
| 20 | Olivia — whose hits include You 're The One That I Want , Physical and Xanadu — still has a tough fight ahead , but she is a born fighter and is now planning to write a book to help other breast cancer sufferers . |
| 21 | Ralston did say that the first volume Knopf intends to publish ( and is now rushing to complete ) will be entitled French Masterpieces of the Barnes Collection , with an introduction by Richard Wattenmaker , an alumnus of the Barnes art appreciation classes , who is currently director of the Archives of American Art in Washington , D.C. Catalogue essays , by a team of ten writers five from the National Gallery in Washington , five from the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in France will examine eighty works from the Barnes to be displayed at the National Gallery , the starting point for the Barnes tour . |
| 22 | Venables inquired about Owers several months ago and is now expected to move in again — with an offer Sunderland would find hard to refuse . |
| 23 | DCE includes component technologies from various OSF members , and is now expected to become the future de facto — if not de jure — standard for creating distributed applications and allowing heterogeneous systems to share those applications transparently across client/server network architectures . |
| 24 | The suite was made in Nancy in around 1900 and is now expected to fetch FF1.2–1.8m ( £120–180,000 ; $215–320,000 ) . |
| 25 | Croft took a year 's sabbatical to recover from a string of niggling injuries and is now raring to go again . |
| 26 | A year ago Ross decided to change sex and is now bidding to become a top female model . |