Example sentences of "it now [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , the forces of continental drift have continued to pull the two continents apart , widening the Atlantic , but the habit of returning to the sea each year to spawn has never been broken even though it now involves such an immense journey . |
| 2 | It 's hard to figure out what exactly is happening with Hunter Systems Inc , Palo Alto , California , since nobody 's returning phone calls : we did manage to find out that its venture capitalist Technology Funding Venture Partners IV in San Mateo , California bought back Hunter 's debt at that auction staged last week ( CI No 2,147 ) — presumably no money really changed hands , and it now owns all of Hunter — but is the company still in business ? |
| 3 | It now numbers some 40 people , as well as the Jersey cows , the Aberdeen Angus bull , the horse , three ponies , and a handful of fecund goats and breeding sows . |
| 4 | Its turnover has tripled in the past decade ; analysts reckon it now sells some £450-worth ( $880 ) of goods per square foot each year , against an average of £216 for all department stores . |
| 5 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 6 | It now seemed that Rose could n't even bear to touch him . |
| 7 | And when it comes to lipsticks , it now offers more shades than any other company in the world . |
| 8 | It now requires all Crown scheme participants to display charges beside telephones . |
| 9 | It now seems that tubercle bacilli cause human disease because of their ability to induce necrotic tissue reactions , analogous to the Koch phenomenon in the guinea pig , rather than protective reactions . |
| 10 | With the continued planned decline of the Canberra force — 100 Squadron are already re-equipping with Hawks — it now seems most unlikely that the OCU will reform . |
| 11 | On Nov. 7 the newly elected Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church , Pieter Potgieter , confessed his church 's guilt at the role it had played in establishing apartheid and said that it now considered that policy to be wrong . |
| 12 | It now has such favourable associations of secure wage-earning that we hardly bother to question it or look behind it . |
| 13 | Others will tell you that it showed cricket 's ability to absorb change , an ability it now has another chance to demonstrate . |
| 14 | Though it now has few East European customers it has proved that with cheap , intermediate technology and a limitlessly flexible approach to business , it is possible to sell exchanges to Russian cities . |