Example sentences of "now [pers pn] is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Det Sgt Stimpson said : ‘ She has tried very hard to stop him stealing but now she is so fed up she just wants to move away and try to make a fresh start in a new home . ’ |
| 2 | Now it is generally observed that most civil servants whatever country they come from make sure that they er give each other pay rises and I know it happens in this country the Civil Service pay pays quite well and it 's certainly a key erm feature in er pay structure in developing countries that if your , if you work for the government you are very very well paid , like government wages can be , you know , four , five , six , ten , twenty times |
| 3 | Whereas by a Transfer/Lease bearing even date herewith the property known as Seedy Towers was vested in the parties hereto as joint tenants for [ an estate in fee simple ] [ [ the residue of ] ] a term of [ 99 years from the ] Now it is hereby declared that the parties hereto hold the said property in trust for themselves [ as joint tenants in equal shares ] [ as tenants in common [ in equal shares ] [ in the proportion of one-third share for A B and two-third shares for C D ] ] Engross in duplicate for both parties to execute both parts , each to hold one part after completion . |
| 4 | Now it is frequently said that the development of skilled movement ‘ lags ’ a long way behind that of skilled perception , and in one sense this is certainly true : young babies have excellent visual acuity as revealed by their behavioural discrimination of , and neural responsivity , to gratings and chequerboards — but we do n't see them playing darts ! |
| 5 | Now it is well known that any linear differential equation of order n has n independent solutions , the most general solution being a linear combination of these . |
| 6 | Now it is rarely seen , though the present herb revival is ensuring that it is once more being propagated and distributed . |
| 7 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 8 | I wish I could join him in the corridor , but now it is so crammed that there is no room . |
| 9 | Yet now it is all gone , nothing left . |
| 10 | In England , lavender was grown commercially until the last war in Surrey and in Kent ; now it is only grown in Norfolk , near Norwich . |
| 11 | Right now it is almost torture . ’ |
| 12 | Now it is mainly performing , though he still makes a few of his own . |
| 13 | Now he is also doing red hot disco remixes starting with Kenyatta 's ‘ Keep Me Coming ’ — just out on 4th & Broadway . |
| 14 | Now he is just flattered by the label — ‘ the British Marvin Hagler ’ — which Bob Arum , the American promoter investing that $2 million , has tagged on him ; previously he would have been angry that he himself had not invented it . |
| 15 | Now he is just flattered by the label — ‘ the British Marvin Hagler ’ — which Bob Arum , the American promoter investing that $2 million , has tagged on him ; previously he would have been angry that he himself had not invented it . |
| 16 | Now he is simply hoping that he is eligible to try to win the award again . |
| 17 | Now he is slowly learning to curb those excesses . |
| 18 | Lee Clark has fought a patient battle to force his way into Keegan 's plans and now he is rapidly proving indispensable . |