Example sentences of "[coord] now " in BNC.

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1 Cheesemaking Then & Now
2 CHEESEMAKING Then & Now
3 The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ .
4 The first is the passage on the cult of the Holy Name of Jesus which , where it is included , completes chapter 44 and begins " bot now : " " If be soth " " " ( 316a. – 115 ) .
5 At death , in the moment of passing , all secure an entry , and some a lasting monument ; but of most people 's later life little is ever known , or now knowable .
6 She wrote eighteen more novels , none of them distinguished or now read , enabling her to live alone in relative comfort for sixty years and to give her only son the best upper-class education that her country could provide at that time .
7 Better than any other instrument available to teachers , then or now , tests would cut through the unpredictable circumstances of a child 's cultural background to the relatively stable aptitudes on which education builds .
8 It is complicated by intrusions , where sudden squalls or now from the bay 's 50-odd tributaries causes local mixing .
9 ‘ Look at the one wearing the collar , then or now , there 's only ever been one liar , and it 's the Holy Roman Empire . ’
10 Everybody keeps their clothes on and in any case the French were not then , or now , a people to blanche at mere nudity .
11 Here I must admit to a certain prejudice , in that much as I admired Chapman 's engineering brilliance — it was intuitive , radical , lateral-thinking and extremely sharp — I did not share , then or now , the belief that Colin was a constructor in the class of Enzo Ferrari , nor did I feel any faith in him as a man or a leader of men .
12 The more palatable impression of retirement peacefully spent in the warmer climes of retirement homes on the south coast ( or now the more exotic coastline of southern France and Spain ) is available only to a privileged few .
13 ( III.vi.78f. ) , because no one could answer it , then or now .
14 supposed to write to somewhere else was it the department of the environment or now what would it be , energy ?
15 and thought of what she should do next , without this view , without the solace of a yearly grant , without the irreproachable ( or now , through custom , irreproachable ) excuse of study .
16 And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known .
17 Stephanie did not understand Daniel 's unhappiness because , quick about his attitudes to churchwardens , shirt buttons , Bill 's fury , the Ellenbys ' lazy matter-of-course snobbery , she was unable to catch the shifts of his feelings about herself , or now , about the two of them .
18 Moreover , at all plausible temperatures for the Jovian interior then or now any mixing on a molecular scale is maintained even in the liquid phase .
19 I think that 's the one danger of all of this , is that both the County Council 's and the District Council 's aim perhaps or now are beginning to listen to the parish councils , but also , just really get an eye off the ball , cos they 're looking for the increased responsibilities for their own purposes , and I think that 's one serious danger that we c have to face , as a local community .
20 Not very funny , then or now .
21 Benedicta — was courteous to everyone , whether it be Hob 's wife , Ranulf the rat-catcher , or now a court gallant .
22 It is not at all surprising that there should be a close identity of interest between the policy and constitution of CND and those of the Labour party , because many Labour Members have been or now are members of CND .
23 Most of the marble and treasures have gone — destroyed , re-used or now in museums — but a clearer idea can be gained here than elsewhere of what such Roman palaces were like .
24 By the time of the French revolution three main classes of diplomat were generally recognised : the ambassador , with or without the title of " extraordinary " ; the envoy or envoy extraordinary , often with the additional designation of " minister plenipotentiary " ; and the resident , or now more commonly minister resident ( the term " minister " as a somewhat vague diplomatic title went back to at least the mid-sixteenth century ) .
25 All the time he was on stage , it was difficult for audiences to think of him as other than the ‘ Carry On ’ character or the voice they knew on the radio or now on television .
26 This will include : ( i ) the mother ; ( ii ) the father if he was married to the mother when the child was born ; ( iii ) the father , if he was not married to the child 's mother when the child was born but he has since married her or now has a residence order , a court order which gives him parental responsibility or a formal parental responsibility agreement made with the mother in accordance with s4(2) of the Act ; ( iv ) a guardian of the child which in this context means a testamentary guardian appointed in accordance with s5 of the Act ; ( v ) anyone who holds a custody or residence order relating to the child ; ( vi ) a local authority which has a care order in respect of the child ; ( vii ) anyone who has been granted an emergency protection order ; ( viii ) in the case of an adopted child , the adopters in place of the natural parents .
27 I mean do do yo , do you think women take more drugs than men do , whether recreationally or or or fo for their health or now th , is th is there a particular problem that women have with drugs whether it 's illegal drugs or tranquillizers ?
28 Neither then nor now has the urge to travel been universal .
29 But the soft messages in the air still come to her and flick around the bones of her long-vanished ears , for she can not set limits on her powers , neither then nor now .
30 These include gonorrhoea , syphilis , herpes , genital warts , chlamydia , and now , HIV infection .
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