Example sentences of "and now [pron] is " in BNC.

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1 The establishment of a National Curriculum has certainly been a major historical movement , but it is not the case that nothing was defined prior to 1988 and now everything is defined .
2 She added : ‘ I put my life and my memories into this house and now everything is gone .
3 And now everyone is wandering around asking how to live .
4 Still , the pants caught on and now everyone is into them .
5 He 's been sporting those flares of his for quite some time and now everyone is into them .
6 " And now what is your fee ?
7 And now what is she doing ?
8 And now it is much too late to go on , he wrote , and much too late to start again .
9 Evolution has given us the Canaletto whose complex city perspectives recede infinitely away and now it is itself seen regressing as
10 They have had the benefit of such an education and now it is over or about to end , together with almost all paramedical help .
11 He smiled his rather pale , somewhat wintry smile and said ‘ Thank you gentlemen , and now it is my painful duty to set you your homework ’ .
12 And now it is Thy will that I leave this festival ; I go .
13 Three fish docks were built and now it is Britain 's leading fishing port , though the number of boats has declined rapidly in recent years .
14 A group at the University of Hokkaido is trying to isolate this chemical , which it calls glycinoeclopin A. So far the group has managed to obtain a tiny portion — 0.5 milligrams — of the substance and now it is trying to discover the chemical structure of the material .
15 I have been dishing it out for a number of years , and now it is my turn to take it .
16 And now it is all over , Tim Robbins wears the armour of the Hollywood superstar .
17 The president then was George Bush , and now it is Bill Clinton .
18 But it at once destroys such a reading : And now it is clear that as in other sonnets ( 20 , 36 , 39 ) , the Poet 's best or true ‘ self ’ is the Friend .
19 By the end of the nineteenth century the quay was deserted ; and now it is a grass-grown waste covered in part with the ruins of houses and other buildings .
20 It was about five inches long when I bought it a month ago , and now it is approaching 10 inches .
21 And now it is my duty to introduce Doctor and erm I think you said you were talking to us about yourself and erm also a little bit about your holidays ?
22 And now it is gone , all gone … the communists have thrown in the sponge and left us bouncing around in the ring looking for an opponent .
23 We know about the Desert Shield with the Desert Rats and now it is the Desert Storm .
24 And now it is n't . ’
25 Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country .
26 But the public took to this comedy of two sisters going it alone while their husbands are in prison , and now it is watched by an estimated 12m viewers .
27 Ian Wardle , of the help agency Lifeline , has seen the drug explode onto the Manchester rave scene and now it is known to have reached Scotland and Humberside .
28 ‘ You 've determined the plan , you 've sorted out your priorities , you know what you want to do , you are absolutely sound about the vision , you 've put together the detail and now it is about delivering it , that 's the greatest challenge of all , ’ she said .
29 Still no takers for this ‘ mirror to all you wish to remember ’ and now it is down £1.95 , or was there a 95p tag lurking in the corner of the flyleaf ?
30 I now turn to the adoption minutes of city hall and now it is a process of in that city hall did not endorse a recommendation from the finance panel , the budget that came from finance panel erm so we are in the slightly unusual position of having to debate the proposals of finance panel as we were recommended to do by city hall , erm that means as I understand it that er the chair of city hall will now present the annual budget statement erm and since he is going to do that in a form of an amendment er that seven other unusual features about the way in which we would normally do it which would mean that there would be er a budget statement and where there would then be the the formal proposals and amendments themself , erm so what I would propose is to try and make sure that everybody has , has maximum opportunity to have their say erm because no two amendments can be on the floor at one time er to take what the leader of the council said first of all erm then to allow the other two leaders to present their budget alternatives as it were , without it be , this is just not did n't take it at that point if they do n't want to .
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