Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] now a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Eaton , director of the pilot needle exchange programme and now a city health official , agrees : ‘ There is no evidence from any syringe exchange scheme anywhere in the world suggesting that they encourage people to inject . |
| 2 | PURCHASING Orford Ness , the coastal shingle spit once used for atomic weapons research and now a wildlife haven , will cost the National Trust £3.11 million , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 3 | One-time England star Lee , a member of City 's 1968 title-winning side and now a highly successful businessman , insists he is not planning a takeover of the Blues . |
| 4 | Drawing a large invited audience of , the debate was chaired by Hugh Rossi , former chairman of the House of Commons Environmental Committee and now a consultant with Wimpey Environmental . |
| 5 | I was interviewed by Wyn Roberts , then programme controller and now a Tory MP , and former Bristol newspaperman Mike Towers , already beginning his spectacular climb in television . |
| 6 | The Black Boy though now a public house was at one time also a farm for when Robert Hearnden ran the public house in 1840 he also farmed a considerable amount of land , where the large pit is now situated and down into the village . |
| 7 | The company dates back to the so-called Ever-sharp pencil invented in 1915 , through to a 1960s desktop computer and now a liquid crystal television display . |
| 8 | It 's also led to a whole industry around the Morse phenomenon , including the CD of music to the series , the Inspector Morse tourist trail and now a non-fiction book about how the series is made . |
| 9 | Murray wants to opt out of the deal but two deadlines have already passed for Kiam to raise the money and now a third , and perhaps final , one has fallen due this month , the end of the football season . |
| 10 | Otto von Habsburg , the Habsburg heir and now a Euro-MP for Bavaria , argues that Hitler 's National Socialists would never have gained power if the Weimar Republic had adopted the British voting system after the First World War . |
| 11 | Since the 1930s , it has served as both a tea shop and now a restaurant . |
| 12 | The path goes on to pass through Binswood , once a deer park but now a Site of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 13 | Hartmut , a friend from Trinity College , Bristol , a gifted personal evangelist and now a curate , was ringing to see if we would go and work with him in a small commuter suburb of Upminster in Essex . |
| 14 | A newspaper and now a bank have since taken over . |
| 15 | Then I received a final notice and now a summons . |
| 16 | The names most frequently in the file are the names also in the article about Scotland Yard : Aleksandar Miso Broz , son of the late President Tito ; Goran Strok , car-racing ace and now a business man in England ; Anton Tkalec , coin dealer in Vienna , now in Zurich , and some ex-members of the secret police and army establishment . |
| 17 | Though she had been quite a successful model herself Arlene had never reached those giddy heights — the thought that now a pupil and protégé of hers might achieve it made her prickle with excitement . |
| 18 | Out of sight , shielded by riot and revelry and now a quarter of a century older , lurks the poet who boasted he had not shown his young mug in Poor People : the sober laborious craftsman determined that his tone shall save everything . |
| 19 | A foot has been put through the loft floor and now a hole needs to be repaired in a lath and plaster bedroom ceiling . |
| 20 | The old church school , situated near to the church and now a private dwelling , was built in 1833 and extended in 1870 . |
| 21 | Joan Ruddock , former chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and now a member of Labour 's front bench team in the Commons , said she and many others were ‘ deeply saddened ’ by the change . |
| 22 | Inside the palace the Empress Taitu , Menelik 's wife , once a woman of outstanding beauty but now an obese hulk , schemed and intrigued to retain power . |
| 23 | I would never , ever have said I was anorexic , until a neighbour and now a close friend , Anita , came out and labelled me one . |
| 24 | I wore my new boots in the snow when I was abroad this Christmas and now a white mark has spoiled the leather . |
| 25 | Sebastian de Ferranti , Basil 's brother and now a director of Ferranti 's competitor GEC , is a trustee of the interests but it is not clear whether he shares these views . |
| 26 | Alongside the parish church of St James and embowered in trees , the beck discharges in a large waterfall from an artificial lake above in the grounds of Ingleborough Hall , long the home of the Farrer family and now a special school . |
| 27 | She has Anne 's marriage to unite the family and now a full turn-out , including the Duchess of York , at Christmas . |
| 28 | Our group of four included the one man in the party , a 35-year-old barrister , a girl of 30-something , myself , and Helen , our guide — once a guest but now a member of the staff . |