Example sentences of "it now [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price of software in Moscow has remained stable so far , despite the sharp drop in the dollar-rouble exchange rate last month : market researcher Soft Market polled 20 software dealers in Moscow and found that prices are steady in spite of the currency fluctuation and Borland International Inc 's use of a US dollar benchmark for its rouble products sold in the former Soviet Union — where it had set rouble prices according to local conditions , it now takes a dollar price and converts it into roubles at the market rate . |
| 2 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ? |
| 3 | The only problem is that it now takes a baffling turn . |
| 4 | However , although the Cross Country route has not emerged as a high-speed line per se , it now features a number of useful long-distance trains mainly aimed at the leisure market . |
| 5 | It now bore a long yellow blister , fag shaped and red round the edges , but there was still no pain , not even when I pressed it . |
| 6 | It now formed a terminus and for the final two miles to Bishop 's Castle the train had to reverse . |
| 7 | Greene King failed in its attempt to take over Morland ; it now owns a 29.32% stake in the Thames Valley brewer . |
| 8 | For record companies , it now became a question of who could pay the most money to secure the most in-demand acts . |
| 9 | It is emphasising these offerings rather than the connectivity software products for which it is traditionally known — what it now calls a secondary stream . |
| 10 | Ever since the ancient Alexandrians , textual criticism had been a highly valued activity ; it now acquired a new lustre . |
| 11 | It now forms a significant part of the country 's output . |
| 12 | It now forms a substantial part of the repertoire of several Persian . |
| 13 | San Jose-based Tatung Science & Technology Inc has been driven by Sun Microsystems Inc into cutting prices on its own Sparc-based workstation line , and as a result , it says it now offers a 40MHz system at $5,990 and a full range of colour systems at less than $5,000 . |
| 14 | By 1966 , the Church was better able to take advantage of the new interest in its separatist stance because it now had a core of Ulstermen who had been converted under Ian Paisley s preaching and who had grown up with his politicized evangelicalism . |
| 15 | It now supports a business and retail park , a multi-screen cinema , hotel and conference complex , ski-slope , fun pool and so on . |
| 16 | And it now provided a convenient framework for the praise of a comital lineage . |
| 17 | Top left : Elizabeth Jane 's father installed this shelf above a kitchen window and it now makes a colourful setting for a blue and white plate collection . |
| 18 | The British Rail scheme would certainly cost less than the old plan as it now proposed a single-track tunnel , not a twin tunnel . |
| 19 | It now covered a greater geographical area and involved a greater number of powerful States than ever before . |
| 20 | It now commands a market niche known as ‘ finite-risk insurance ’ , sold mostly to multinational companies . |
| 21 | It now thrusts a clock out high above that thoroughfare . |
| 22 | But maybe it now seems a little clearer why people can truly believe in the resurrection hope for the person who has died , yet at the same time may still allow themselves to feel sad . |
| 23 | It now seems a sad compromise , arrived at by friends who wanted to see him appropriately honoured , but it is one perhaps which he would have understood . |
| 24 | It now houses a restored water wheel and steam engine . |
| 25 | It now houses a refreshment area for visitors to the museum and the granary is used for exhibitions . |
| 26 | I hope you feel as I do , that it now provides a useful description of the contribution Area Staff make to Christian Aid 's overall task — I thought you might wish to retain a copy . |
| 27 | Launched in the UK just three years ago , it now claims a 20 per cent share of the premium sector — and a very distinctive image . |
| 28 | It now looks a big mistake to have joined the ERM at all , at any exchange rate , without first having created political institutions capable of running monetary policy in a way that takes due consideration of the needs of all members of the European Community . |
| 29 | Hong Kong supports a ban on trade in new ivory , and we believe it now has a villain-proof system for its stocks . |
| 30 | However , it now has a reasonable range of productivity software ( word processors , databases , etc ) , and in specialised areas — colour graphics , desktop video — it is well ahead . |