Example sentences of "[that] now [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned to the plastic bag that now bulged with deep red fluid and read the increments marked on the side . |
| 2 | In accordance with your instructions of the 11th August , plans have been prepared and are herewith submitted for your consideration of a Lift or Slide to take the place of the 10 Locks that now serve as the means for passing the Traffic at Foxton Locks . |
| 3 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 4 | Although the decisive opening goal , a brilliant volley by Nayim , owed nothing to planning , it was just reward for a display that emphasised the spirit of resilience that now prevails at the club . |
| 5 | Among the first victims of the reform were the larger German-owned estates that now fell within Poland . |
| 6 | Peter Edwards looks at the blank space that now passes for a promotions policy . |
| 7 | ‘ I had a sort of wager , ’ she said simply , amused at the alarm that now crept into his face . |
| 8 | Given the requirement that medical evidence has to be served with the proceedings , and given the long waiting lists that now apply for very senior surgeons , it might be a good idea either to get an initial report from the treating surgeon or to use one of the independent physicians mentioned above . |
| 9 | Put together , they could be said to constitute more than the ‘ perhaps one or two opportunities ’ the discussion set out to find , but an outline strategy for reclaiming a grossly under-used source of much-needed brain-power in the boardroom : a strategy that now calls for sharpening and refining . |
| 10 | Put your pointer over one of the sides of the border that now stretches for twelve cells , click , and drag the range to where you want it . |
| 11 | Another Oxfordshire site associated with an Iron Age precursor is Wood Eaton , while a possible third site is that now covered by the northern part of the City of Oxford . |
| 12 | The tobacconist parted with his stick and fought his way through the noisy crowd that now spilled into the road . |
| 13 | One entry , elided with others in the published journals under the date 14 August 1948 , was in fact written on 31 October 1948 and in its original form provides far greater insight into the animosity that now existed between the two friends . |
| 14 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
| 15 | In Scotia and in Orkney , the work went on as fast as resources would allow , and more speedily than it might once have done because of the cleared roads and the stations of help that now existed through the newborn network of local churches and local leadership . |
| 16 | Cynthia could not speak for the sobs that now came from her throat . |
| 17 | Buzz , only half awake , wore an old Jaeger dressing gown that now looked like something from a dog basket . |
| 18 | Does he accept that the Government are reducing to fewer than 300 ships the number of vessels that now sail under the red ensign and that they have treated with utter contempt the red ensign , which has served this country well in times of peace and war ? |
| 19 | It was some such hope which united the movement that now coalesced from all points of the spectrum . |
| 20 | The only fact that now seemed beyond doubt was that Syria and Iran were obviously the two countries who were crucial to getting all the hostages released , whoever was actually holding them . |
| 21 | Their discord provided accompaniment for the chase that now developed between the two beings . |
| 22 | Organisms of the kind that now live on Earth would die virtually instantly if they were transported beyond its protective cocoon . |
| 23 | These include the ‘ archaebacteria ’ that now live in airless marshes . |
| 24 | Some of the organisms that evolved the ability to split hydrogen sulphide have left direct descendants , bacteria that now live in environments such as marshes and hot springs . |
| 25 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 26 | The priority for Leeds at the start of the season was a place in Europe and despite leading the table for much of the season that now looks to be their only target — although it is far from guaranteed . |
| 27 | In short , an essential step in the evolution of all the life forms that now exist on Earth , was the co-operation of two quite different kinds of molecule : nucleic acids based on nucleotides , and proteins consisting of amino acids . |
| 28 | The Bill will reinforce the marked differences that now exist between schools in terms of the social class make-up of school populations . |
| 29 | Since the opening of the Torpoint turnpike , around 1820 , it has been Sheviock that now stands on the main thoroughfare . |
| 30 | The church that now stands behind the façade is Waldensian . |