Example sentences of "[conj] [be] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus I can know what is in the bottom drawer of my desk , or what I shall eat for breakfast tomorrow , by some form of inductive inference from what I have observed or am now observing . |
| 2 | Therefore the pieces that have been put together in the following pages as possible audition selections are from writers who have gained , or are now gaining , a major place in contemporary theatre . |
| 3 | However , it is true that government policies ( or lack of policies in some areas ) have contributed significantly to our problems and some of the changes that are now in the pipeline will almost certainly make matters worse . |
| 4 | With all the new techniques now available , such as twenty-four hour trading and the global marketing of securities , we have been a bit slow to adapt to changes that are now going to be permanent . |
| 5 | Such a circumstance is far less likely to arise if defective slating is replaced either with a new natural slate roof or a surface of one of the several types of lightweight synthetic slate that are now obtainable . |
| 6 | True , during his tenure Mr Conable quickly identified a number of themes — notably the environment and the role of women — that are now becoming central to development policy . |
| 7 | Today the practice of this principle should lead the Church to apply the standards of fairness that are now accepted in society and this means being seen to value and use to the full the vocation and gifts of women . |
| 8 | Capable of recording Nicam stereo transmissions and also playing the wide range of Hi-Fi pre-recorded video tapes that are now available . |
| 9 | The succeeding New Red deposits gradually buried a landscape broken by numerous faults , some of which remained active outlining subsiding basins that are now filled with thick Permo-Triassic sediments . |
| 10 | Two of those that are now running are fitted up with electric light , more as an experiment than anything else . |
| 11 | BBC engineers are divided between hacking a Scandinavian proposal to standardise across Europe on eight-channel sound in a gaggle of different languages or , as many want , to go for fewer channels carrying the kind of sound quality available on the new digital discs that are now in British shops . |
| 12 | Consequently , there is real uncertainty about the outcome of the large experiments that are now about to start . |
| 13 | The experiments that are now turning in the goods are on CERN 's largest particle accelerator . |
| 14 | At the beginning of the Triassic the dominant land animals were the mammal-like reptiles , the synapsids , although they had already been badly affected by dramatic events at the end of the Permian ; catastrophic events of the kind that are now known to have turned the course of Earth 's history several times . |
| 15 | The British manufacturer , Contassium , argues that is has often taken doctors years to recognise the value of substances , such as vitamin C and B12 , that are now recognised as genuine vitamins . |
| 16 | Silver amalgam is still used in teeth in the rear of the mouth , but even then there are aesthetic considerations favouring the use of tooth-coloured polymer-ceramic composites that are now routinely used to repair front teeth . |
| 17 | However its ability to carry through the wider social and economic issues that are now central to its agenda has yet to be proven . |
| 18 | The new breed will be in the form of RCM dedicated development environments ( i.e. customized expert systems platforms ) that are now emerging . |
| 19 | Businesses using the standard method which had included zero-rated supplies that are now outside the scope , will use a special method to be approved by Customs , subject to their usual reviews , during the next VAT inspection . |
| 20 | He revealed to ACCOUNTANCY that he is getting extra discounts of around 10% from the six major publishers that are now involved . |
| 21 | The most prominent aspect of privatisation , as practised by the Conservative government , has been the transfer of ownership of assets from the public sector to the private sector ( as in definition 1 ) , and it is the arguments for this that are now considered . |
| 22 | The one order , several families and many species that are now unique to the Oriental Region make up a strange and fascinating collection of little-known animals . |
| 23 | Those that are now appearing have been in the pipeline for at least two years , having been commissioned before the recession hit the publishing industry . |
| 24 | The ape 's failure to acquire a ‘ language ’ from us ( spoken or gestural or plastic-symbolic ) in no way discredits the very reasonable evolutionary claim that they , or a common ancestor of ours , had the rudimentary cerebral beginnings that are now our speech centres . |
| 25 | The arguments that are now available to justify the use of particular methods are much more convincing than they used to be . |
| 26 | Many of its main weapons , from tanks and aircraft to submarines , were bootlegged and upgraded from Soviet designs that are now up to 40 years old . |
| 27 | The move is Zurich 's response to structural changes in the insurance market which threaten a ruinous price war in the familiar ‘ off-the-shelf ’ products that are now widely sold to households and companies . |
| 28 | Sad to say , there are thousands of businesses that are now exposed . |
| 29 | But the many complex descriptions of the real social practice of literate and oral modes that are now becoming available suggest that literacy and orality are not so vastly differentiated as these writers claim . |
| 30 | As the house is of the Georgian period , I was thinking of oak as a possibility , but I would be most grateful if you could let me know what other types of wood are suitable , either hardwood or softwood , including some of the foreign hardwoods that are now available . |