Example sentences of "[noun prp] [am/are] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following their madame de Pompadour exhibition , Wildenstein are now holding ‘ The allure of women in eighteenth-century France ’ for their traditional St Valentine 's day exhibition . |
| 2 | Eight months on , the Lonsdales are now raising money for the cot death charity that helped them come to terms with Louis ' death . |
| 3 | Although this activity has traditionally been based in the UK , Spain and Germany are now taking the plunge as , Bonelli said , an increasing number of companies and government departments are outsourcing as part of rationalisation or downsizing projects . |
| 4 | Health officials in Gateshead are now investigating why firm action was n't taken earlier . |
| 5 | Companies which looked inwards to Whitehall are now listening to their customers and shareholders . |
| 6 | The United Kingdom observatories at Lerwick , Eskdalemuir and Hartland are now operating close to this ideal as a result of continued developments in instrumentation , communications and data-processing software . |
| 7 | About 30 species of Anopheles are now considered important as carriers of malaria . |
| 8 | Many trade union studies units in colleges of further education have now closed ; trade union tutors from colleges , extra-mural departments and the WEA are now spending all or part of their time in organising and teaching courses for unemployed people and others . |
| 9 | Perhaps the upwardly mobile middle classes in 1990s Detroit are now surrounding themselves with postmodern houses and artefacts ! |
| 10 | More than half the schools in the United States are now experimenting with such tests . |
| 11 | Executives at Alexandra Towing are now waiting to hear further details of the move , which could be finalised within a few weeks . |
| 12 | All those entered on parts 1 , 3 , 5 , 8 and 9 of the SPR are now described as first level practitioners , while those entered on parts 2 , 4 , 6 and 7 are described as second level practitioners . |
| 13 | To win a slice of that market , Sun , Hewlett-Packard and IBM are now selling workstations priced at less than $1,000 — little dearer than top-of-the-range PCs and far cheaper than the $15,000 or more charged for traditional scientific machines . |
| 14 | Indeed HP and IBM are now thought to be working on much closer relationship ( UX No 430 ) . |
| 15 | Indeed Hewlett-Packard and IBM are now thought to be working on much closer relationship — ‘ Hewlett-Packard and IBM is a done deal , ’ according to one insider . |
| 16 | Fluorite-barite and base- and precious-metals mineral deposits elsewhere in south-west England are now known to have been deposited from such brines . |
| 17 | HAVING disposed of their pubs and disco estate in Scotland to Scottish & Newcastle Breweries , Stakis are now looking to sell off the 14-strong Firkin pub chain bought from European Leisure only a year ago . |
| 18 | Several of the old dairy breeds and some of the Pyreneans are now classified as rare , along with one or two of the old draught breeds which are being heavily crossed with Charolais and Limousin . |
| 19 | Sainsbury Homebase and B&Q are now refusing to sell peat taken from bogs designated as SSSIs [ see EDs 46 , 49/50 , 52 , 53/54 ] . |
| 20 | His chances of re-election in November are now brightening , thanks , it is said , to the Clinton coat-tail effect . |
| 21 | The inlets behind the spit at Seaford are now infilled ; at Shoreham , the early harbour is now silted up , and at Winchelsea , the sea which destroyed the earlier site has now abandoned the second . |
| 22 | Indeed , Asian communities in the London area , parts of the Midlands , and in West Yorkshire are now served by specialist services , a development which has been much helped by the availability of trained Asian health care professionals and a strong community infrastructure . |
| 23 | Two police officers from Wiltshire are now going to Ireland to arrange an application for extradition . |
| 24 | Mr. Taylor : As many of the laws that used to be made in the House of Commons are now made by the Council of Ministers , and as we can discuss its decisions for only one and a half hours after 10 o'clock at night , does the Lord President agree that this makes nonsense of democracy and deprives the public of the knowledge of what is going on ? |
| 25 | Yet the banking Brits , too , chose to ignore the lessons of previous fiascos and bankers on both sides of the Atlantic are now trying to recoup by exacting most onerous prices : thus breaching another first principle . |
| 26 | These early letters to Helen are now lost and are merely reflected in her long replies from Margate and Rotherfield . |
| 27 | The masterpieces he once owned by Leonardo , Correggio , Veronese , Rubens , Holbein , Breughel , Dürer , and Titian are now scattered among the world 's major art galleries . |
| 28 | So much so that several social services departments in the United Kingdom are now issuing their elderly and disabled meals-on-wheels customers with small freezers and a week 's supply of meals for them to store and heat up themselves . |
| 29 | The teeming slums of Kampala are now coming to life . |
| 30 | Being screened in Barcelona five days a week — in Catalan — the old Street shows are proving so popular that Granada are now hoping to sell further programmes to the rest of Spain . |