Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] now [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm now just got their comments now , and it may be helpful if I enclose a copy to er whoever may may wish to have a copy to be looked at over the weekend . |
| 2 | ‘ You are now better equipped to carry out your challenging task of educational evaluation . |
| 3 | The vigour , sometimes amounting to brutality , with which she utilized her seapower in time of war , by wholesale interference with neutral shipping carrying contraband or trading with her enemies , did much to increase the hostility with which she was now widely regarded . |
| 4 | Cary 's final work , an enlarged edition of The Resurrection ( November 1653 ) , was addressed to the saints meeting at Blackfriars and Christ Church , showing that she was now closely associated with the Fifth Monarchists . |
| 5 | Those improvements depend on a successful macro-economic policy and the way in which that is run by the Government and the European Community with which we are now closely connected . |
| 6 | We are now firmly established as one of the leading independent exploration and production companies in the world . |
| 7 | We are now both retired and watch TV together if we are both interest ( while I sew up ) ; if I am not interested , or my husband is out , I knit and listen to the radio . |
| 8 | It was constantly stressed that we are now only qualified to dive in the conditions in which we learnt , that we should always go out with people of greater experience , and that with recreational diving ( which PADI stress this diving is ) , you never go deeper than 30 metres unless you have a specific reason , i.e. a wreck . |
| 9 | We are now publicly engaged . |
| 10 | We are now fully fledged instructors . |
| 11 | Freezing on the trunk , they are now completely hidden from view and make no tell-tale sound . |
| 12 | They are now busily engaged in scheduling the introduction of more new plant and equipment ( and , of course , the disposal of old and obsolete machinery ) which will include a more sophisticated dust-press at Barlaston , dust-press machines at Eagle and the eventual move to leadless glazing processes . |
| 13 | Peppercorns , which are harvested from a vine-like plant some 3½m/12ft high , Piper nigrum , were originally grown in India and south-east Asia , although they are now widely cultivated in other tropical areas such as Madagascar and the West Indies . |
| 14 | Although they are now regularly increased in November every year , a government pledge to increase the rates in line with the rise in either earnings or prices , whichever was higher , was dropped in 1980 . |
| 15 | They are now regularly used by groups of people involved in Outward Bound activities and school parties . |
| 16 | Until recently , it contained a wide group of fish of the kind known generally as haplochromines : that is , they were once classed in the single genus ( see p. 124 ) Haplochromis within the family Cichlidae , though they are now generally placed in several different genera . |
| 17 | Whatever their origin , they are now highly controlled and automatic responses to this situation . |
| 18 | The natural sciences have proved so enormously successful in modern times that they are now commonly regarded as the supremely useful and valid intellectual discipline , and as setting the standard to which all other kinds of enquiry must conform if they are to be taken seriously as dealing with truth and reality . |
| 19 | They are now often juxtaposed with previously scorned synthetics . |
| 20 | However , the prison sentences on the 61 , originally imposed for " hooliganism " , offending good manners and upsetting public order , had merely been annulled in February 1990 ; they were now formally reclassified as having been convictions for the political offence of " propaganda against the socialist system " . |
| 21 | During the month after her father 's death each of them had discovered the need to explore hitherto suppressed areas of feeling and half-knowledge that stood between them and a clearer knowledge of the selves they were now fully determined to offer to each other . |
| 22 | Now at about the time that that letter was written on the twenty second of October er Mr had the meeting at the National Westminster Bank that had been arranged between himself and a Mrs and it is clear from er this meeting that the bank would no longer er , given that the Frinton property was not to be offered as security , prepared to offer the sum , the substantial sums that they had originally agreed to do and they were now only prepared to offer very much smaller sums and the plaintiff 's case is that the only way that they were going to be able to proceed to complete on this matter was er by selling their homes , their family home at and it is the plaintiff 's case , certainly in relation to er the losses that they have sustained as a result of the breach of contract , alleged in this case , that er if they had not been forced to go ahead to complete on this deal they would not have been required to sell their family home . |
| 23 | He realised with a flash of almost ludicrous detachment that the hand that was trying to grasp him was now fully formed , and was the one that he had cut the fingers off when slamming the steel door . |
| 24 | And for me , it represents an opportunity to complete the kind of Freud-Darwin synthesis I 've been working on really , for the last ten years , and it kind of represents the completion of the synthesis , as it were now completely merged in my mind into a single , the single kind of entity that I , I know call psychoanalytic . |
| 25 | But it 's now widely tipped as one labour can win . |
| 26 | But it 's now completely dried up . |
| 27 | Built in the 1740s and housed in the only remaining Gothic interior in the city , it 's now electronically operated and can imitate anything from bagpipes to a brass band . |
| 28 | Some art historians detect the hand of Leonardo himself on the canvas , and it 's now generally accepted to be the most perfect version of the Last Supper in existence . |
| 29 | The large unit known as the syssel , a subdivision of the country broadly similar to the English shire , is in Jutland believed to be pre-Christian , although its function is something of an open question , as it is now best known in connection with later ecclesiastical organisation . |
| 30 | Later that same year both Sandoz and Geigy acquired a financial interest in CAC and it is now wholly owned by Ciba-Geigy . |