Example sentences of "now [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man is now helping with their inquiries . |
| 2 | The Pisante brothers who own it are now helping with inquiries , as the phrase goes . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As Laz was now gazing at his reflection and feeling his chin , Rex finished the bottle of Old Bedwetter . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But modern culture is now proving to be vulnerable on two counts , one social , one intellectual . |
| 9 | The original cause of disaffiliation , ILP control over its parliamentary group , was now proving to be disruptive to the Party . |
| 10 | 'Twill be well because he is not the real thing , never could be , and is not even now presuming to be ; but conversely , 'twill be well because the imitation , the travesty , of the real thing can also usurp it and to all intents and purposes become it . |
| 11 | This is very much the same as sample 3 , but the tucking needles are now tucking for two rows before knitting two rows . |
| 12 | Once again , the same format as the previous two samples , but needles are now tucking for four rows before knitting for four rows . |
| 13 | Erm and how we would generally distribute all this stuff that we 're going to get from the respective head offices , which is now filtering into our office , we 've got leaflets er car stickers question and answer booklets , that kind of stuff . |
| 14 | My mum and Mrs Quigley were now ritting on the arm of the sofa , their eyes glued to the screen , as Quigley paced around the room . |
| 15 | What the cameras were now discovering and what audiences were now reacting to was Cagney 's own reality , a unique one-off reality or presence , albeit of the kind one hopes to run into whenever entering a New York bar . |
| 16 | The wily old president , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , who temporarily joined up with the opposition leader , Benazir Bhutto , in order to get rid of the prime minister , is now scheming against her , too . |
| 17 | In this case the misgivings appear to be unfounded , but it does highlight the need for adequate controls on such experiments , both from a national and international perspective , since it is always possible that genetic engineering firms , which are now proliferating in the USA , Japan and northwest Europe , will turn to those , usually developing countries , where regulations are not as strict as those of , for example , the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in the USA . |
| 18 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 19 | Swindon police are now liasing with British diplomats in Pakistan to check on her welfare . |
| 20 | Laurentius is now collaborating with the technological giants Philips in Eindhoven to perfect the image of the X-ray using computer-boosting techniques , so that a clear positive print of the watermark and the structure of the paper can be achieved . |
| 21 | We are now collaborating with Perkin-Elmer in marketing MatchFinder , a neural network that recognises patterns produced by spectrometers . ’ |
| 22 | Dr. Ethelwynn Trewavas , well-known to cichlid keepers for her work on African Cichlids , and I are now collaborating on a paper on this subject . |
| 23 | Hot-rods have become so fashionable that America 's Chrysler is now toying with putting one of its own into production . |
| 24 | As well as feeling a sense of sadness and loss , the son or daughter begins to realize that the parent is now depending on them for strength and care . |
| 25 | ICL itself admits to be investigating a parallel processor architecture that will use HyperSparc , sources say this is likely to grow out of a 256 CPU parallel system that the company is now building under the auspices of the European Community 's Esprit project . |
| 26 | Pressure is now building in Whitehall to cut the payments to those who stay on the list . |
| 27 | The President is assisted by a Prime Minister and a Cabinet composed of representatives of a number of political parties ; although the parties continue to exist , political activity is banned , and elections to the National Resistance Council ( NRC — hitherto comprising 98 appointed members ) were conducted on a non-party basis in February 1989 [ see p. 36455 ] , since when the NRC , now consisting of 210 elected and 68 presidentially appointed members , has acted as a legislative body for the interim period until a new constitution is framed . |
| 28 | I 'm now a-going to Mr Gooding 's , straight to his farm , Redhouse , Witnesham . |
| 29 | A large body of " spreading " data is now accumulating in the cytogenetic literature , spanning all eukaryote species from plants to man . |
| 30 | They remained in control over the means of mass communications but those whose work or views they had long ignored were now clamouring for access . |