Example sentences of "it now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It now feels healthy enough to expand . |
| 2 | It now feels like it is embracing me and other Black sisters . |
| 3 | ‘ Whereas I would play twice over a weekend , it now takes me until Tuesday to get over a match . ’ |
| 4 | It now takes place over the weekend of April 24 and 25 . |
| 5 | Lorenz had his model restored and it now takes pride of place on his writing desk , decorated in the colours of the aircraft flown by Helmut Lennartz also formerly of III/JG7 . |
| 6 | The rouble has collapsed as Russia 's prices have soared : it now takes 934 roubles to buy a dollar , up from 128 a year ago . |
| 7 | The price of software in Moscow has remained stable so far , despite the sharp drop in the dollar-rouble exchange rate last month : market researcher Soft Market polled 20 software dealers in Moscow and found that prices are steady in spite of the currency fluctuation and Borland International Inc 's use of a US dollar benchmark for its rouble products sold in the former Soviet Union — where it had set rouble prices according to local conditions , it now takes a dollar price and converts it into roubles at the market rate . |
| 8 | It is a tribute to how far we have come already in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform an experiment whose results we can not predict . |
| 9 | It now takes place , for the most part , within large and various Polytechnics or in Universities rather than in monotechnic , specialist , institutions . |
| 10 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ? |
| 11 | The only problem is that it now takes a baffling turn . |
| 12 | It now takes about twelve years from the development of a new chemical to the marketing of it as a medicine , so that twelve years is used in testing it — first of all on animals and then on human volunteers and finally on patients . |
| 13 | ‘ Paul — ’ It was seldom she had used his name ; the use of it now made no impact on him . |
| 14 | It now made open confession of its inability to cope alone with the crisis initiated by Perry 's arrival . |
| 15 | Just thinking about it now made her tilt her chin higher . |
| 16 | Whores would sometimes don men 's apparel , leading to Charles I to issue an order forbidding it , because it now made whores more difficult to detect , but this was generally ignored by the soldiery . |
| 17 | Having last week announced that it is backing Ken Livingstone for the Labour leadership , it now says it supports the ‘ Sun Readers ' Party ’ . |
| 18 | It now says that it does not envisage compulsory staff redundancies over the next couple of years ; and that it has no plans greatly to expand the use of contractors in place of its own staff . |
| 19 | Whatever it 's called , though , one of the most gloomy facts about it is that it now spends more on weapons than on health and education put together |
| 20 | It now lodged not only what was left of the Headleand family , but also the private part of Liz 's practice , and the practices of two of her colleagues : a shared secretary had taken over what had once been the au pair girl 's flat . |
| 21 | But despite Mr Delors ' firm line on tobacco advertising , the EPC said it now believed even that blanket ban would not now be implemented . |
| 22 | Jon Pack took advantage of the five-minute interview to explain how BP had conducted a widespread consultation exercise before developing the oilfield and how it now operated the field to the highest environmental and safety standards . |
| 23 | Instead of converting each country 's GDP into dollars using market exchange rates , it now uses purchasing-power parities ( PPP ) , which take account of what money actually buys in each country . |
| 24 | I was listening to the same genial , slow voice with which the American gentleman had charmed many since his arrival and yet it now contained something unmistakably covert . |
| 25 | It now discriminates against trained nurses taking the Project 2000 scheme . |
| 26 | And so , in synthesis , there are still the exploited and exploiters , there is still economic manipulation and surplus value ( though it now encompasses the emotional as well as the physical ) . |
| 27 | It now refers to anything disappointing . |
| 28 | ‘ Lafayette ’ may have been the name of a French noble woman , but it now refers to a brand new and stunning range of carpets launched by Stoddard Templeton . |
| 29 | It now measures about 25mm along its longest axis . |
| 30 | The garden had been built by his great-great-grandfather , but , like his father and his father 's father , he had made his own small changes to the original scheme , extending the garden to the north , so that it now filled the whole of the ancient island of Manhattan . |