Example sentences of "now [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention is to assemble data on rural social and economic change in the industrialising north which will complement the work now completed by this author on the more strictly agricultural counties in the south of England and Wales , making clearer the very different social and economic developments in the north and south between 1660 and 1870 . |
| 2 | It is from that sheet that the figures were transcribed on to the erm on to the pink and the , the , the , the , erm blue and the yellow sheets which have been circulated and which have been amended so that the figures now correspond on both sheets . |
| 3 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 4 | To judge by the events of the past week , Michael Heseltine has now enrolled in the Nixon school . |
| 5 | One man is now helping with their inquiries . |
| 6 | The Pisante brothers who own it are now helping with inquiries , as the phrase goes . |
| 7 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 8 | It is also an angry repudiation of sexual repressiveness as enforced by the ideology of authentic , normal sexuality , now ratified by state law and the medical professions . |
| 9 | As the public sector debt repayment is now contracting in size ( to only £0.4 billion in 1990/91 compared with £14.7 billion in 1988/89 and £7.9 billion in 1989/90 ) and as a public sector borrowing requirement is expected for the 1991/92 and 1992/93 financial years , it seems likely that regular issuance of Treasury bills will be maintained . |
| 10 | His black suit , now tinged with green , was shiny at the elbows and knees . |
| 11 | His green crest , she saw , was now tinged with brown at the roots . |
| 12 | But he knew why the moment he entered the old schoolroom , for after allowing him to pass her she closed the door and stood with her back to it , her pale face , now tinged to a deep red , thrust out towards him as she cried , ‘ Think you 're smart , do n't you ? |
| 13 | This was well captured by George Orwell who , in Coming up for air ( 1939 ) , describes the return of George Bowling , after 18 unimaginative years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda , and now shaken by the fear of a future war , returns to the village of his childhood : Lower Binfield . |
| 14 | Dolphin history is revealed by fossils from ancient marine sediments now exposed on land . |
| 15 | They ate with a shared teaspoon out of the tin and she looked at the sardines and condensed milk now exposed between John Donne and Rosa Luxemburg . |
| 16 | ‘ People are entitled to be angry — the cynical deceit of the Tory election campaign , the easy promise that all the economy needed was the reassurance of a Tory victory , all now exposed in the harsh light of the real world . ’ |
| 17 | He envisages that a change in outlook may derive from appreciation of the complex event sequences that new techniques have now exposed in the Quaternary ; from appraisal of the classical models of change to accommodate the realization that extreme rapidity of change now has to be considered when evaluating chronological biotal and geomorphological processes ; from adjustment of geomorphology to new knowledge of Quaternary change such as rate of ice sheet growth and decay ; and similar adjustment of biogeography and of palaeoclimatology . |
| 18 | Move the paper down to row B and check your answer against the correct one now exposed in the third column . |
| 19 | But one child I know caught his parents prowling around with stockings at the dead of night and is now impressing upon his little pals that the whole thing is a con . |
| 20 | But unfortunately it has fallen face down and Shelley 's " shattered visage " is now pressed to the " lone and level sands " . |
| 21 | After closing the door , she stood leaning against it , the linen now pressed against her body , her hands crossed over it . |
| 22 | As Laz was now gazing at his reflection and feeling his chin , Rex finished the bottle of Old Bedwetter . |
| 23 | It should be a mounting series of difficulties , only here the difficulties are not major confrontations but small incidents such as a foot caught in a briar root or a gate that has always been open now proving to be locked . |
| 24 | But modern culture is now proving to be vulnerable on two counts , one social , one intellectual . |
| 25 | The original cause of disaffiliation , ILP control over its parliamentary group , was now proving to be disruptive to the Party . |
| 26 | Relatively few influential activists would now quarrel with the recognition that markets are an effective way of generating wealth and indicating consumer preferences . |
| 27 | As a consequence , the number of ministerial appointees with farming experience has increased by over half since 1980 so that farming interests now predominate among the ministerially appointed members , as well as among the members appointed by the councils . |
| 28 | Over the summer , word of mouth made Quadrant Park one of the most queued-for nights in the north ; now coachloads from Glasgow , Newcastle and even Manchester begin lining up amid the warehouses and oil tanks at 8pm . |
| 29 | Her wrists were by now fastened to the post , and she was helpless . |
| 30 | The swing from suspicion to welcome which he met at Durham he now met at Cambridge . |