Example sentences of "a [noun] now [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These inspectors , although originally instituted to inspect schools receiving grants from Parliament — a function now replaced by the task of reporting to the Secretary of State for Education on the quality of educational provision — have always had the aim of seeking to improve education in the institutions they visit . |
| 2 | A decision now has to be made about whether this rearrangement is acceptable for the time being or whether some further rearrangement might be more satisfactory . |
| 3 | What the men did next is also not disclosed but clearly something impressed the ladies again because before the year was out they spontaneously and bountifully agreed to ‘ always let the men through directly they are in any way pressed ’ , a decision now overtaken by the bye-laws . |
| 4 | Brian has joined the faculty from South Devon College of Arts and Technology , where he was senior lecturer for 25 years , teaching BTEC National and HND courses in hotel and catering institutional management , a course now franchised to the University of Plymouth . |
| 5 | We can improve on our previous gloss for now , by offering " the pragmatically given span including CT " , where that span may be the instant associated with the production of the morpheme itself , as in the gestural use in ( 53 ) , or the perhaps interminable period indicated in ( 53 ) Pull the trigger now ! ( 54 ) I 'm now working on a PhD Now contrasts with then , and indeed then can be glossed as " not now " to allow for its use in both past and future . |
| 6 | The firm occupied 10 of the 23 floors in a building now owned by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority . |
| 7 | Vaillancourt , a Canadian now living in California , had nothing to lose by his all-out effort , but would still have been beaten by George Lindemann if Larry , one of his two World Cup horses , had not hit the last fence . |
| 8 | Recalling Thatcher fortunes when they were at a low ebb , Baroness Castle of Blackburn , as she now is , reminds us that Margaret Thatcher was at one stage rated the most unpopular Prime Minister in history a tag now attached to John Major . |
| 9 | The former Soviet Union made a similar pledge to destroy tactical nuclear weapons , a responsibility now carried by Russia . |
| 10 | This cash haemorrhage intensified after 1982 , when the society hired as its director James Bell , a genealogist now demonised as the administrator most responsible for the institution 's demise . |
| 11 | Its list of down-under clients is embarrassing : Mr Christopher Skase 's defunct media conglomerate , Qintex ; a bankrupt trans-Tasmanian property developer , Equiticorp ; Rothwell 's , a dud Perth-based merchant bank ; the fraud-ridden National Safety Council of Victoria ; and Mr Alan Bond , to whom the bank is thought to have had almost $1 billion in loans outstanding at the peak , a figure now cut by half . |
| 12 | ‘ The money people will have learned their lesson after the Arne Glimcher flop ’ , said a journalist now working on a script about another art world story . |
| 13 | Yet during their tenure of office both have had to deal with a Russia now run by an apparently liberally minded head of government who has come to the conference table willing to reduce arms at a rate that the West sometimes finds embarrassing . |
| 14 | The left wing advanced a short distance beyond the Steenbeek rivulet and Langemarck , a village now reduced to rubble . |
| 15 | And a museum now located in the town will be moved into the castle . |
| 16 | When Murray Bookchin came clattering into our living room 25 years ago , in a period now seen with a misplaced nostalgia by the left , his urban guerrilla appearance belied his message . |
| 17 | Sometimes , Ibrox Villiers Cley had Marnya play him a piece of music composed long ago on a planet now forgotten in a remote galaxy . |
| 18 | Take a moment now to look at the needle . |
| 19 | Ted 's assistant throughout the work on this engine was Jim Mitchell , a Kentishman now living in Southery , Norfolk , within a short distance of where the engine had been recovered . |
| 20 | Percy Wood was appointed senior labour master in 1933 , and lived in a cottage on a site now occupied by the boilerhouse . |
| 21 | The King 's army was dispatched and met the rebels at a site now known as ‘ Bloody Oaks ’ , about five miles north-west of the town near Empingham . |
| 22 | For a band now irritated by most dance music — ‘ most of it 's cack , I hate going into bars where they 've got it blaring out from everywhere , you ca n't hear yourself think ’ — and uncomfortable with the accoutrements of clubbing — ‘ I ca n't stand being under strobes no more , do me head in , make me lose my balance ’ — it was inevitable the Mondays would rake up their rock roots , ‘ mature ’ their sound and make a major musical transition . |
| 23 | He had a chance now to tell on Lee , to get him off his back , out of Jubilee Wood . |
| 24 | An organisation once the size of a Station now resided in one small corner of the airfield at Wyton but it maintained the excellent tradition that saw it produce many thousands of aircrew . |
| 25 | All development is now done on Hewlett-Packard Co PA RISC Snake workstations running Unix — SAS has taken $5m worth of the things — the SAS system as a whole now runs to over four million lines of code . |
| 26 | This sector as a whole now accounts for 23% of Scottish manufactured exports , with whisky alone representing 20% . |
| 27 | The ‘ peripheral ’ workforce as a whole now accounts for 34 per cent of those in employment — 8.1 million people . |
| 28 | Tracy Miles and Susan Little say they 're victims of a policy now adopted by many insurance companies . |
| 29 | The city quickly acquired its first Christian bishop , a man now revered as Milan 's patron saint , St Ambrose ( Sant 'Ambrogio ) . |
| 30 | They were in a house formerly occupied by a man now held in Crumlin Road jail on charges connected with major bombing attacks on Belfast City Centre last year . |