Example sentences of "now [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hold your breath , now sit forward a couple of inches and now tense up all over the body , tighter , tighter . |
| 2 | Aldercine 's Active Retirement Club at Luton Regional Sports Centre now number over a hundred on the register — almost half are men ! |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , therefore , whereas in 1949–50 means-tested benefits accounted for only 12.7 per cent of the social security budget , they now command over a quarter of all social security expenditure ( Reform of Social Security : Background Papers , Cmnd. 9519 , pp. 28–9 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Now wait just a minute , ’ put in Uncle Alfred . |
| 5 | Now wait just a goddam minute . |
| 6 | you said you now update once a year , is that right , every September ? |
| 7 | All the woodwork in the School was pitch pine , now become either a fierce saffron yellow or a dark , almost sooty , brown . |
| 8 | The Government Health Warning beneath the images has now become merely a product identification sign — without the " warning " we should not even begin to recognize what product was offered in the remarkable pictorial rebus above . |
| 9 | As this institution has now become purely a slanging match ( unfortunately the only time guaranteed to attract a full complement of Members ) , how can it possibly be taken as a serious part of governing the country . |
| 10 | The former basic industries — mining , agriculture , construction and manufacturing — now employ about a third of the total workforce . |
| 11 | Sales of BS2000 mainframes now contribute about a third of Siemens Nixdorf 's revenues , and Gruneberg denies any negative effects from the downsizing trend — but then the German market always was notoriously slow to latch onto industry trends that are rampant elsewhere . |
| 12 | Voluntary organisations like the Rainer Foundation are at last being listened to and boroughs that ten years ago might have had a dozen children 's homes now have only a couple . |
| 13 | Many villages , especially in Persia , which have long been associated with highly sophisticated work , have either ceased weaving altogether or produce so few examples that they now have only an historic relevance to the contemporary scene . |