Example sentences of "now [verb] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That avenue is now regarded in some quarters as not nearly as strategic as cuddling up with Novell , despite the disappointment USL employees might feel in not being able to cash in their stock and options that way . |
| 2 | Indeed what we are now seeing in some cases as ‘ the genuine article ’ are quality brewery refurbishments dating from the 1920s and 1930s , good Brewers ‘ Tudor , maybe , but hardly the stuff of the ancient , inglenooky world that the modern myth-makers — the brewers and the tourism industry — would have us believe still exists . |
| 3 | There were also photographs of his weak and charming father , who had read Pravda and the Daily Telegraph every morning , and his beautiful feckless mother , who 'd run off with an Italian and now lived in some palazzo in Rome , and of the huge house in which he 'd been brought up . |
| 4 | Microsoft Corp 's new Windows NT is not only a challenge to OS/2 — which Microsoft originally developed jointly with IBM Corp but has since abandoned — but also Unix , which is now installed on some 24m workstations . |
| 5 | Dalziel was now immersed in some papers and did n't even glance up . |
| 6 | I shall now consider in some detail this last phenomenon — variable loss of [ h ] in stressed syllables initially before vowels . |
| 7 | Psychic healing , once written off by the medical establishment as bunkum and jiggery- pokery , is now recommended by some GPs and is becoming available on the NHS . |
| 8 | It seems highly likely , for example , that much of the nitrate now appearing in some ground water in Britain was actually first released almost fifty years ago , when grassland was ploughed to make way for cereal as the country strove to increase its home-grown food supply . |
| 9 | Empirical evidence against my point might arise if there was significant support for the claims now made by some surgeons that a patient after such an accident can both will , and have conscious access to , the process of nerve regrowth ( as an alternative to the sort of superficial retraining of behaviour described above ) . |
| 10 | The term pre-embryo , for example , is now used by some researchers . |
| 11 | I want now to look at some aspects of self-experience that I think should be central to any theory of self , and hence to any discussion of women 's autonomy . |
| 12 | Subsequent investigations have led to some revisions of Gilbert 's original findings and it is now thought by some researchers that the laccoliths radiate from central discordant intrusions known as stocks ( Fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 13 | OfficePower takes central stage in ICL 's overall strategy as combined hardware , software and services revenues associated with the environment in all of its guises now amounts to some £1,200m , according to Graham Taylor , ICL UK 's software business manager . |
| 14 | We can now look at some applications of these principles to teaching . |
| 15 | Therapist : ‘ OK , we have looked at your current difficulties , let's now look at some background information [ turns page of assessment sheet ] . |
| 16 | According to the Brazilian government 's own figures , two-thirds of the population now suffers from some degree of malnutrition and in the north-east nutritionists are talking about an epidemic of dwarfism . |
| 17 | They now cater for some 22% of the 16+ population and vary in size from 200+ to 1000+ . |
| 18 | It showed up in the scan — one child in three , they say , is now born with some imperfection or other , mostly minor , sometimes major , and whether that 's due to pollution , or insecticides , or growth hormones , or radon gas , or nuclear power plants , take your choice , take your pick : and whatever the cause , the mothers stay healthy enough , are sufficiently medicated one way or another to bring babies to term — and we all said to Edie , what 's a missing leg ? |
| 19 | UK business now accounts for some 30% of the European total . |
| 20 | However , Mr Barber reports that the number of people planning to retire to a home in France now accounts for some 50% of enquiries . |
| 21 | There are now about 350,000 voluntary groups in Britain — and personal donations to charities now amount to some £5,000 million a year . |
| 22 | Total Group assets under management increased over the year by almost £5 billion , and now amount to some £20.2 billion . |
| 23 | I want now to turn to some questions of form and genre , trying to identify a particular set of formal and institutional parameters for television , and returning at the end of the essay to questions of value . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , but the matter is now become of some urgency , and I feel very guilty — ’ |
| 25 | But probably a guard had spotted it and it was right now sitting in some staff-room in Queen Street station , or Gallanach . |
| 26 | Successors to this proud tradition , our group was now engaged in some cleaning duties . |
| 27 | Nor , for once , did he enclose his curriculum vitae — which he now contemplated with some discomfort . |
| 28 | For whatever reason , they all now sat in some dumbness at Sir Alexander Gordon 's table , and it is the only meal so far recorded by Boswell in which he has no conversation to report , nor argument , nor words of Johnson . |