Example sentences of "[vb -s] now [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I find that her refusal does not cover the emergency which has now arisen which was outside her contemplation and the contemplation of others at the time she expressed her opposition to a blood transfusion . |
| 32 | Rather than scrap the scheme , however , Mr Weld has now extended the deadline until 31 July , 1993 . |
| 33 | In Durham , Brian Roberts has been studying village plans and has now extended his research to other northern counties , as well as looking at England 's village plans generally . |
| 34 | That ‘ colonisation ’ has now gone . |
| 35 | * Of the tropical rainforest that covered the equatorial belts of Asia , Africa and South America just 80 years ago , over half has now gone . |
| 36 | This has now gone up to 16 making it the hardest handicap hurdle of the season to date for any punter to try and solve . |
| 37 | And that has now gone . |
| 38 | Thinking of , for example , those summer vacation sessions you used to have with the Berlin players in Saint-Moritz in the 1960s and '70s , I am sure one day people are going to be looking back to all this as some great Golden Age that has now gone for good . |
| 39 | But she has now gone through the barrier and that is important for her . ’ |
| 40 | Even that record has now gone , Sluman holing in one . |
| 41 | The mill was originally powered by an iron water wheel although this , as well as the substantial mill pond , has now gone . |
| 42 | Although the wheel has now gone and the wheel pit is blanked off , the mill pond is still well maintained , edged with stone and wooden piling . |
| 43 | These were originally in silver but the silver has now gone . |
| 44 | ‘ You 'd better know — unofficially — that an alert for Tweed has now gone out secretly to our counter-espionage friends and certain police chiefs in Europe . |
| 45 | The first prize has now gone to Dr Richard Gentle , a specialist in fluid mechanics at Nottingham University . |
| 46 | Its wholesale arm has now gone into compulsory liquidation . |
| 47 | ‘ It was a huge blow to their pride to discover how far behind they had fallen during isolation — yet coach John Williams has now gone too far the other way . |
| 48 | Already a fierce critic of the Premier League 's initial refusal to trim the number of clubs , Taylor has now gone on the attack over a television deal which has pumped more than £300 million into the game . |
| 49 | But the ‘ lubricity ’ , if that 's the right word , of the scree has now gone for over use . |
| 50 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as it was meant to at one time . |
| 51 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; ‘ I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 52 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as had already been intended at one time . |
| 53 | Mr Habibullah is still missing , the matter has now gone to the Lahore High Court , and the assembly 's fate will be decided when Mr Sharif 's friends produce the unfortunate Mr Habibullah next week . |
| 54 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 55 | he has now gone back to Little , Brown lock , stock and backlist , and LB is mighty pleased . |
| 56 | In an essay written with Watt in 1963 ( in Goody , ed. 1968 ) , Goody sets out to counter-balance the relativism of his colleagues in anthropology which , he feels , ‘ has now gone to the point of denying that the distinction between non-literate and literate societies has any significant validity ’ . |
| 57 | During the 1980s rural populations have grown more slowly then they did ten years earlier and some have declined ; in contrast not only has there been a substantial slowdown in the rate of London 's population decline ( Britton 1986 ) , but it has now gone into reverse in a small way . |
| 58 | With a revival in fifties and sixties pop music , this has now gone further , to the use of hits of this period to sell to the under 25s : the Levi 's 501 commercials of the mid-eighties , with songs by Sam Cooke and Percy Sledge , are now classic examples . |
| 59 | I I had a set a full set of music which I I er er was at the W I hall , and has now gone . |
| 60 | in the old S St 's Church hall on Street , which has now gone . |