Example sentences of "they now [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Representations of female sexuality here were not merely negative , they now offered women positive images of their own autonomy through a stress on celibacy , evolutionary superiority and the power of human love .
2 Today , in the country , you are more than likely to see women still washing in this way , although they now use lixivia ( bleach ) , sold in bright plastic bottles which , empty and discarded , can often be seen in a river bed or floating out to sea .
3 Mr Outcalt believes that Nordstrom 's shoppers — typically bright , successful types who seem to spend nearly every waking hour with cellular telephones , laptop computers and videos — will accept Nordstrom-style television shopping as readily as they now use bank debit cards to buy their groceries .
4 An FDA spokesperson said that they now anticipated approaches from companies proposing changes to their labels .
5 ‘ There are one or two people who claim that they now remember hints dropped by Kim Philby , but I ca n't say I can remember anything at all . ’
6 When it returns to ‘ normal ’ ( probably because short rates rise , which they now show signs of doing ) , Mr Giordano reckons that the Treasury will be paying an overall rate just 75–100 basis points above bill rates .
7 They decided to go north to Thorpe Old Manor and spend Christmas as if they had as few cares as they now had pence .
8 Although still on the top floor , they now had lifts , or rather elevators , to take them up and once inside the dressing-room each Girl had her own mirror well lit by bulbs surrounding three sides just as they had seen in the films .
9 They had experienced the uncertainties of the 1960s and 1970s and they now wanted stability .
10 They now provided Sukarno with a vehicle for polemic and controversy which enabled him to regain a place in the public eye .
11 THOSE OF you who are old , sad , or obsessive enough to remember Social Distortion from their days as an early '80s San Francisco hardcore band might be surprised to learn that they now shift units by the truckload in America .
12 They now grow Whitbread Goldings Variety , developed to be more resistant to wilt than the traditional East Kent type .
13 At the time of the 1835 emancipation , as also at the cessation of apprenticeship in 1838 , abolitionists enacted rituals of triumph and unity , though it was significant for the future that they now acknowledged differences and , ironically , different abolitionists performed different rituals indicative of unity .
14 This morning the Today newspaper published an apology on page two , saying … they now accept Linda was not responsible for taking the letters .
15 Yes , erm , going back to the original thing that brought this up , that we should descry people from using Nestlé 's products , erm , in fact implications will be quite wide , because they now own Rowntrees , and they own Cross and Blackwells , and they own all sorts of other companies .
16 They now believe David Ashworth could be back in the Liverpool area after leaving the couple 's 20-month-old baby Gareth , in Scotland yesterday .
17 They now face Chester YMCA who beat Club Snooker Bootle , the Liverpool Conservative League Champions , 3–1 .
18 They now face Turkey , who are the holders of the trophy at the City Ground on Sunday , either 2pm or 4 pm ( cant remember ! ) .
19 They now face Arsenal in the final on April 18 .
20 They now meet New Zealand in a repeat of last year 's final .
21 So why do they now need £1.25 million ?
22 " One " and " we " as ways of referring to yourself should be avoided because they now seem ARCHAIC ( old-fashioned ) , and in most cases pompous in an unpublished essay , especially if embedded in a more colloquial register .
23 They now play Belfast Post and Telecom in tonight 's final .
24 It is therefore not surprising that he should here stress the psychological aspects of pain and its control rather than the nuts and bolts of nociceptors , unmyelinated afferents , spinothalamic tracts and those splendid phrases designed to send medical students back to sleep in the belief that they now understand pain mechanisms .
25 There is utter and total confusion and anything that stands still they used to say they would paint it in industry they now say market test it and they do admit to us that the end object does not necessarily mean complete contractorization or privatization , but at this particular moment in time
26 Many Americans regret the fact that they now discuss sport with the passion that 200 years ago they brought to everyday debates on theories of representative government ( and , as historians of the revolution have made plain , there really were such debates ) .
27 OPPONENTS of plans to install new street lights in a Constable Country village claim they now have proof their campaign is supported by a majority of residents .
28 They now have salons in .
29 They now have sponsorship in their own right from School Book Fairs .
30 Sam Wanamaker enthuses that they now have permission to thatch the roof of the gallery and thrust stage .
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