Example sentences of "the [noun] now [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lack of feminist perspective is emphasized by statements such as : ‘ There can be no doubt that women and girls have failed to make full use of the opportunity now open to them ’ , which implies an ideologically and materially unfettered equality of opportunity . |
| 2 | This rich Lord of the Manor now stood in the middle of the hall revelling in his ostentatious show of wealth whilst servants placed high-backed chairs in front of the fire . |
| 3 | Similar attitudes of troops of occupation of all ages and in all places , from South America to India , help us understand the revulsion now felt by many Britons , some of whom may have been sympathetic to Rome and hopeful of recognition of their natural rights and dignity . |
| 4 | ‘ The hospice now needs to be furnished , so that we can provide respite for up to 15 patients a day . |
| 5 | The throne now passed to Sophia 's son , a 54-year-old German , who automatically became King George I of England , the founder of a new dynasty , the Hanoverians . |
| 6 | Each successive generation from the reign of Edward I. onwards has laboured to produce that complete political unity which is represented by the absolute sovereignty of the Parliament now sitting at Westminster . |
| 7 | Most analysts have now cut their first quarter forecast , and the views now range from a loss of 64 cents a share to a profit of eight cents — and David Wu of S G Warburg has gone out on a limb with forecast $0.80 a share loss . |
| 8 | The computer now responds to the command SQUARE by drawing a square 50 x 50 units . |
| 9 | With the computer now established as an indispensable accessory in the workplace the volume of text available in a machine-readable format has become massive . |
| 10 | the proposals now submitted for the Control and Collection Sections within the Exchequer Division , as detailed in the Management Services report , be agreed |
| 11 | For a glimpse of the experience now ring for our colour brochure . |
| 12 | They have been beaten finalists on three occasions and the setbacks now act as a spur to the present squad . |
| 13 | With Robin Smith and Graeme Hick first Test certainties , the vacancies now appear to be at Nos 5 and 6 . |
| 14 | The responsibility now rests with local councils rather than the Government . |
| 15 | Most of the herbs now grown in Britain , culinary and domestic , as well as medicinal , resulted from the Roman invasion . |
| 16 | And with the recession now biting into the music industry , one desperate insider said this week : ‘ We have a wish-list of people we hope might pop their clogs before Christmas . ’ |
| 17 | He prodded the saucer , where the coin now lay in a swirl of green colour . |
| 18 | Speaking to a joint meeting of the University and Central Region officials recently , Professor Michael Jackson , Deputy Principal , estimated that the University now supports in excess of 2800 jobs in the Region ( 1380 employees and a further 1500 jobs in support services ) . |
| 19 | The building now stands in grave danger from the weather , derelict and in ruins . |
| 20 | A number of members of the Society began meeting in the building now occupied by Mr Ross Raymond 's cycle business — then the Anchor Cafe — and the Meeting House in Portmore Street was opened in 1905 . |
| 21 | In the long term , the Prado has also been promised the building now occupied by the Army Museum — one of the last remnants of the 17th-century Palace of El Buen Retiro , whose artist in residence , fittingly enough , was Velazquez . |
| 22 | The staff are now not convinced that with the freedom now offered to managers to negotiate local pay bargain , that these historic low levels of pay will improve . |
| 23 | As well as a soft-font installer utility , PageMaker 3.0 for the PC now comes with the basic Bitstream font library as standard . |
| 24 | The taxes now levied on enterprise net income are essentially equivalent to value added taxes , although they are not completely uniform across republics and provinces . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , why this relaxation was either necessary or sufficient remains an unsolved problem , since the average consistency of the reference measurements , and usually even that of the plant measurements is better ( has a lower error ) than the level now used for the consistency checks ( 20% error ) . |
| 26 | I referred in Chapter 2 to the firm place in the curriculum now occupied by the TVEI scheme , and to the 1986 Government White Paper Working Together : Education and Training . |
| 27 | The Association now operates from Rome . |
| 28 | An EC-EFTA meeting on Dec. 19 made progress in discussions on the European Economic Area or EEA ( the term now adopted in preference to " European Economic Space " or EES — see pp. 37134 ; 37535 ) , and it was anticipated that these EC-EFTA talks would now reach a conclusion by mid-1992 such that an EEA agreement could go through the various ratification processes and take effect on Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 29 | Experiencing a latter day revolution — the wheelbarrow now comes in many shapes and sizes , all finely tuned to suit your special needs . |
| 30 | Although the pond now lies under the garden and the road , it is still possible to trace the mill 's tail race as it flows to meet the stream in the gardens of Westbury Court . |