Example sentences of "and [pron] be now [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the subject of strange names , let me tell you this ( and I am now serious ) : The sweet-shop at South Portland Street , opposite our tenement , wherein most of our pocket-money was spent , was owned by a tall , bearded , orthodox Jew . |
| 2 | ‘ Will you write Charles Napier that I made his man Moncrieff a lieutenant , ’ Keith wrote , ‘ and I am now obliged to invalid him to prevent his being dismissed by a court martial . |
| 3 | Since then I have progressed and I am now able to waitress with confidence . |
| 4 | From my angle Edward and I were now firm friends . |
| 5 | Sydney is a big as Los Angeles , and I was now far from the two teams I liked — Wests and St George . |
| 6 | Parish registers are the best example of records that were first kept during the Tudor era and which are now invaluable sources for the genealogist . |
| 7 | Then she picked up the tall glass she had carried down with her , and which was now empty , walked sedately to the water 's edge , filled it with ice-cold water and returned to see that he had not shifted . |
| 8 | If you lose 2 days work you will qualify because there are 6 days in the social welfare week and you are now unemployed for 3 of them . |
| 9 | Perhaps your domestic circumstances have changed , and you are now able to resume what was once an enjoyable way of earning a living . |
| 10 | The Association is experiencing an increase in welfare casework , particularly from those who served in the Air Force during the Second World War , and who are now elderly and in need of our support . |
| 11 | Witness to this are the large numbers worldwide who came to Glasgow to work with him and who are now distinguished practitioners in their own right . |
| 12 | • What your intense desire for Jim tells me is that you are a highly sexual person : one who has managed to heal herself after a difficult marriage and who 's now ready for a physical relationship . |
| 13 | During this time he introduced himself to the Governor of New South Wales , who received me most kindly and offered me every assistance ’ , and paid his respects to Captain Philip Parker King , who had commanded his expedition with Lady Franklin to Recherche Bay the previous December , and who was now resident in Sydney as Port Officer and Superintendent of Government Vessels . |
| 14 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 15 | Oliver had reassured her that Sir Thomas could not possibly have committed suicide through anguish at her rejection and she was now prepared to enjoy the rest of the week immensely , even if it did involve a murder investigation . |
| 16 | We waited patiently to see how the new Council would emerge , and we are now delighted to have established a Partnership Plan between ourselves and CCW . |
| 17 | Normalising this with x3 , we obtain unc and we are now able to deflate A further to unc Since unc and unc is the only remaining eigenvalue , unc and unc can be written unc which completes the solution . |
| 18 | Computed tomography is a poor technique for staging prostatic cancer and there is now substantial evidence to demonstrate that MRI is significantly better . |
| 19 | They have not used their powers and there is now total deregulation in this country . |
| 20 | That is a technique which has been practised in this country for many years , and there is now increasing pressure for it , and increasing use of it , in relation to Community legal texts . |
| 21 | The early promise of desmopressin in this role has faded and there is now little to support its routine use except in patients with uraemia . |
| 22 | The youngest group has in effect become more stratified in educational terms and there are now new gradations of educational attainment that mirror differences in social background . |
| 23 | However , the weaving of Turkoman rugs has taken a different direction in each country , and there are now certain variations in the overall quality and characteristics of the rugs , as well as in the manner in which they are made . |
| 24 | They have asked me to remind you that the end of year obligations imposed on employers are becoming ever more complex , and there are now serious penalties for not complying . |
| 25 | He paused , and there was now utter stillness in the room . |
| 26 | They have been encouraged to purchase houses with high mortgages , and they are now desperate and worried . |
| 27 | And he is now certain to be banned in France under rules which forbid professionals returning to play Union . |
| 28 | Bob lives next to an adult activity centre and he is now fully-occupied with swimming , photography and language classes . |
| 29 | However , as a result of the accident , he has completely lost the use of his arms and legs and he is now able to communicate with other people only by using his parents to interpret his signs . |
| 30 | And he is now able to say : ‘ I 'm afraid of nobody . ’ |