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Example sentences of "now [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Further to my letter of yesterday , I now am able to send you your copy of the OALDCE 3/e Electronic computer tape , which has been prepared to your specifications .
2	Further to my letter of yesterday , I now am able to send you your copy of the OALDCE 3/e Electronic computer tape , which has been prepared to your specifications .
3	I mean one in seven of our bookings now are long haul holidays , and a large percentage of those will be going to America , and again the exchange rate from the pound to the dollar helps us there .
4	Who now are warm
5	Whereas in the 1970s , modularity was seen variously as a means of overcoming artificial subject boundaries , promoting student choice and clarifying course objectives , the main rationales now are administrative rationalization and the promotion of credit transfer between courses , institutions , modes of study , and between the educational system and ‘ corporate classrooms ’ , to use Eurich 's ( 1985 ) phrase , as exemplified by the CNAA Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme .
6	Support prices now are available on a product-by-product basis , replacing a more complex scheme based on categories of software .
7	Many of these changes are for the better : accommodation is much improved , the roads now are good .
8	I forgot that I discovered that all our letters now are apt to be a day late .
9	Her Servants now are ty 'd , her Horse 's Ear
10	The films we are making now are comparable with what James Baldwin or Langston Hughes or Zora Thurston would do .
11	Most changes now are cosmetic , such as coloured shafts and big heads for drivers .
12	It 's all a welcome boost for Cowley after all the redundancies , the 3,000 jobs here now are safe , say Rover , who announced that contracts worth £236 million have been sealed .
13	The main products now are artificial fertilisers and carbon dioxide which is sold to other industries , particularly to put the ‘ fizz ’ into drinks and as a cooling agent for nuclear power stations .
14	My letter to your Honour of the fifth January last being writ before the great events that are upon us now , would lead your judgement astray as to our progress in these fair Isles , for mighty Saturn threw his sinister shadow heavy upon me at that juncture and many untoward and grievous events had combined to cloud my spirits that now are light as a summer breeze again .
15	Now are aware that are losing the agency stuff therefore services should improve generally but this is mostly and the business travel , you know duty travel , cruise positioning that sort of thing , to the extent that erm and two of the ops people paid a visit to last week for a liaison meeting and one thing that I thought was absolutely remarkable that came out was in respect of complaining that they could never get through to anybody in erm in , they could n't get a reply from the extensions and they could n't send messages or anything .
16	But from a practical point of view as time has gone on , most people now are aware that they want to save money .
17	In an interview with The Times , Gummer said : " I do not think that any of the mechanisms for killing whales which are available now are commensurate with humanitarian views of our treatment of living things " .
18	In Birmingham , Stuart Tullah of Collins Son & Harvey , which has a large rental book says : ‘ People faced with taking another 12-month tenancy now are afraid prices may go up in that time . ’
19	People retiring now are likely to have an occupational pension on top of their state pension and the average income of pensioners rose by 31% more than the rate of inflation between 1979 and 1987 .
20	This has led to a crisis of legitimacy for the system : not only for the prisons ( whose claim to be providing effective rehabilitation was always shaky in many eyes ) but equally for other components of the penal system , notably the probation service which has for some years now been uncertain about what its proper rationale and direction should be .
21	The familiar carcrash sculptures have now been hand-painted and christened with punning titles : ‘ Headly Lamarr ’ ; ‘ A Spear de Corps ’ ; ‘ Advice Squad ’ .
22	A total of 19 have now been involved in disasters which cost the lives of 1,500 passengers and crew .
23	They know what it 's like to stand on both sides of the competitive fence and have now been involved with the sport for well over a decade , first as top international competitions and then as manager and coach of the national team .
24	In the past these accusations were dismissed as ‘ Western-orchestrated propaganda ’ , but there has now been Soviet confirmation of a number of recent killings in the Ukrainian town of Kharkov during fights between Soviet youngsters and African students .
25	The initial phase of 11 general SVQs , plus the two Skillstart awards , have now been available in schools , colleges , and other centres for six months .
26	Despite being hit by the recession slightly later than their auditing colleagues , the recruitment market for general taxation specialists has now been stagnant for a good 12 months .
27	As I was saying , the position of matron has now been vacant since term began , and in spite of valiant efforts to fill the position — ’
28	On May 19th seven civil servants were fired ( though , in one of many farcical moves , five have now been unfired ) among muttering that there may have been criminality in the office .
29	All the year 's work , the sowing , the preparing , the hard work , it 's now been worthwhile
30	The incidence of bully/victim problems in schools within mainstream children has now been well-established ; however while it may be likely that children with special educational needs will be over-represented in such categories , there has been very little quantitative evidence on this point , or on which types of special needs children are most likely to be involved , in which way .