Example sentences of "now [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The World Bank in its annual report stated that total developing-country debt now amounted to approximately US$1,341,000 million , or 6.3 per cent more than the $1,260,000 million recorded in 1989 . |
| 2 | The total storage available at Imperial Dock to meet the increasing demands of the Distillers now amounted to 55,000 tons . |
| 3 | Lincoln University , and the benefits it might gain from a Barnes tour , were also cited in J. Carter Brown 's 24 January letter , now appended to the Orphans Court petition . |
| 4 | The brain , now realised to be a ‘ processor ’ of information rather than a ‘ computer ’ , is also recognised as being a gland allied with the endocrine system . |
| 5 | Lady Selvedge , she now realised to her surprise , was wearing low-heeled walking shoes , not really quite the thing with her elaborately draped velvet toque but eminently sensible . |
| 6 | The squeeze on consumption prior to 1969 now led to trade unions adopting a more militant posture in wage negotiations . |
| 7 | Hoare said last night it now expected to be trimming its full year forecast back from the £30m pencilled in so far . |
| 8 | It is evident that in many of our residential areas no such balance any longer exists , for the street has been given over entirely to the car , with other functions now expected to be subordinate to it . |
| 9 | now got to trying to decide is that made in England , or was it made in Germany or . |
| 10 | Richard erm if I now got to the stage of saying if if you had a choice , cos I have a luxury here of six companies er most recruiters just have one job for one company . |
| 11 | A glance at the map on p. xii will show that the enlarged Aquitaine which the English had to defend had very long frontiers , vulnerable to small mobile forces which the French now used to excellent effect . |
| 12 | An exhibition called Old World , New World is going on there right now devoted to what Chris got up to in 1492 . |
| 13 | INVESTMENT in safety has scaled new heights at Courtaulds Chemicals in the UK with a massive 6,000 man days per year now devoted to training . |
| 14 | And having asked the question it now occurred to him that with this woman 's shrewd , sharp eyes upon him , he may be unable to bear the answer . |
| 15 | They are separated by major fault zones , in most cases now demonstrated to be thrusts , which have on average an east-west trend . |
| 16 | By the time Tennyson revisited Cauterets , in 1861 , what he thought of as a village he now found to be , in his less poetic moods , ‘ an odious watering-place ’ , and that is a transition you can readily enough trace in the architecture today . |
| 17 | ‘ Poorboy ! 'said Charlotte , suddenly outraged by the weariness and exasperation of this ineffectual little man , worn out by a job he had probably chosen as the most profitable within his scope , and now found to be extending him far beyond the end of his tether . |
| 18 | He now appealed to the ancient enemy of the Ukraine , Poland , to clear the land of all Russian forces — and offered as reward the concession of eastern Galicia to Poland . |
| 19 | Chappell & Co. now appealed to the House of Lords . |
| 20 | But what was suddenly seen as extraordinary was that the supernatural , the miraculous , and certain doctrines were just as present in the layers now believed to be the earliest as they were in the layers believed to be later . |
| 21 | Just before it joins the urethra , the vas sprouts a small sac , the seminal vesicle , once thought to be a store for spermatozoa but now believed to be simply another gland which adds its secretion to the ejaculate . |
| 22 | Once thought to commemorate a Viking encounter , but now believed to be a Class III Pictish monument , centuries older , Sueno 's Stone has panels and friezes of headless corpses , horsemen , battles or skulls . |
| 23 | The Gibraltar authorities have provided information to the RUC , who have an arrest warrant out on company head Cork-born George Finbarr Ross , now believed to be living in Dallas , Texas . |
| 24 | As for that other one , which was how he now alluded to the daughter he had always doted on , she was in her room and there she would stay until she saw sense . |
| 25 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 26 | His voice now came to her , saying , ‘ Look , I 'll take what you 've got . |
| 27 | Although the very thought of court action had brought him out in a cold sweat , the same grittiness which had enabled his father to jump ship and seek a new life now came to his rescue . |
| 28 | Azharuddin , so out of touch earlier in the tour , now came to the fore , stroking his wristy way to 106 , his 11th Test century . |
| 29 | Tensions submerged in the earlier campaign now came to the fore and led more and more to a coercive policy of sexual regulation , especially of working-class prostitutes . |
| 30 | The central target of the new rationalism , however , was the chorus , which now came to be seen as an anomalous relic of the past . |