Example sentences of "now the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unix System V Release 4.2 — now the official name for Destiny — the desktop version of Unix from Unix System Laboratories Inc — finally saw the light of day at a full-dress industry event in San Francisco last week . |
| 2 | Now the discontented group had been transformed into the merriest little gang of kids since the first night of Oliver . |
| 3 | Now the exhausted male stickleback |
| 4 | Now the bare earth was pitted and ravaged and , during the monsoon rains , torrents of water swept down the loosened topsoil , carving out gullies and chasms that crumpled occasionally into landslides . |
| 5 | After the Macleods ' modest grandeur and great hospitality , Raasay House became a hotel , and now the bare boards of the Adventure School thud with young feet ; they sleep in bunks and merry community where Johnson had a room to himself , which , as he told Mrs Thrale , ‘ in eleven rooms to forty people was more than my share ’ . |
| 6 | Until a few years ago , only what was the London County Council , and is now the Inner London Education Authority , employed chartered librarians in schools , though counties such as Nottinghamshire , Somerset , and Cheshire have now followed suit . |
| 7 | Now the criminal law makes heavy weather of the issue of sex change only if over-rigid conceptualism is maintained and common sense abandoned . |
| 8 | I served on the Committee which dealt with what is now the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , in the hope that I could draw on my own experience as chairman of the Cardiff juvenile bench , and as someone who had worked with young offenders . |
| 9 | What we have said we are involved in a process which must involve both governments and all parties , whose objective is agreement among our divided people an agreement which all our traditions must give their allegiance and agreement , and an agreement which must express which which must respect our diversity , now I have kept repeating that statement since we made it and I asked anyone to tell me what they disagree with it , now the loyalist paramilitary some weeks ago said that if the I R A were to k their impression they 've given all along is that they 're just a reaction to the I R A and if the I R A were to stop they would cease immediately , I immediately put out a statement welcoming that statement by them , I also offered to talk directly to them , but they have refused er given the nature of their campaign , particularly at the moment , I begin to wonder do they want the I R A to stop ? |
| 10 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 11 | She had spent the evening smouldering with resentment after his callous dismissal of her father 's death , but now the biblical phrases Luke had employed earlier were suddenly hammering at her brain and heightening her agitation , although she suspected that she was playing into his hands by allowing them to do so . |
| 12 | Now the Japanese parent wants to run the whole show here and Mr Botnar , not unnaturally , is digging in his heels . |
| 13 | Opposite , the Rococo Turba Palace ( 6/477 ) , now the Japanese Embassy , was designed by the Austrian Josef Jägr . |
| 14 | Up to now the Japanese have not been leaders in disc design . |
| 15 | Because of the raging personal computer price war , the European market started to expand strongly in 1992 and now the Japanese market , despite its general economic sluggishness , is also expanding . |
| 16 | A change for the better , for now the Japanese can concentrate on the new industries of Computers and Lasers where , because there is not yet the world competition as in radios and televisions , they can recover better margins making their industries more wealth-creating . |
| 17 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 18 | Differing values and influences over generations of childrearing in the English speaking world have included concepts of religious morality , medical morality , natural development and natural needs , individualism and the ‘ fun ’ morality , added to which there is now the parental dilemma of whether to be friend or authority ( Newson and Newson , 1974 ) . |
| 19 | Gradually , however , they had all been infected by Yussuf 's low spirits and now the orderly room was an oasis of gloom . |
| 20 | Now the relevant point about briefing this is a you 've mentioned Glasgow and Birmingham that I already knew about , that we 're tendering against . |
| 21 | Tennant took over at Guinness in 1987 in the wake of the scandal following its hostile take-over of Distillers ; the company is now the seventh-biggest in Britain with a stock-market value of £10.7 billion . |
| 22 | At the 14th , the par-5 , which is now the 15th , Jacklin looked at the scoreboard and Lee says to him ‘ Tony , do n't look at the scoreboard because I can beat all of them up there . |
| 23 | Now the geological circumstances in which the most abundant graptolite faunas are found can be introduced into the argument . |
| 24 | So it should happen that Mr Kirkley was at home when the guests arrived and was able to add to his surprise and not a little amazement when his daughter 's friend was delivered at his door by Raggie Aggie , for Aggie had long been a known character , she and her hand-cart , and now the pony-driven flat-cart ; and of course the fact that she was almost as broad as it was . |
| 25 | The corridor was empty of any enemy movement but now the billowing smoke was thick , stinging his throat and making his eyes smart . |
| 26 | Wheelchair travellers used to cross the track on boards laid down for mail trolleys.But now the disabled are being forced to make an eighty mile detour via Shrewsbury to get to Hereford because British Rail have taken up the boards for safety reasons.We joined the Leominster Disabled Access group on a trip to Hereford . |
| 27 | The Chief of Defence Staff is now the sole military adviser to the Government , drawing his advice from the three single Service Chiefs of Staff , whose responsibility is to give the naval , army and air points of view , unfettered by the need to reach collective decisions . |
| 28 | The Tories have never before been reduced to control of one county council : Buckinghamshire is now the sole jewel in their crown . |
| 29 | Ayesha reintroduces the central figure reborn from the apparent death at the end of She and now the sole survivor of the cult of Isis , living in a volcanic mountain fortress , this time in Tibet , and with some difficulty holding her power against a wild tribe in the valley , partly consisting of survivors from Alexander 's army , under the control of Queen Atene , who proves to be a reincarnation of the Egyptian princess , Amenartas , beloved of Kallikrates . |
| 30 | Crossman Block have wholly taken over from Lloyd & Co. and are now the sole solicitors instructed by the interim government . |