Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] it is now [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ancient Dwarf hold of Karak Ungor has become so infested with Night Goblins that it is now known as Red Eye Mountain . |
| 2 | There are still traces of hut circles attributed to an Iron Age occupation and , at the time of the Roman invasion , the local patriots , the Brigantes , established a hill fort to resist the foreign legions ; an ancient rampart wall , built around the perimeter of the summit and almost half a mile in circumference , has survived the centuries although it is now crumbled and has many gaps . |
| 3 | The decision is likely to postpone a hearing on the charges for many months and it is now thought that the case could eventually be heard in Milan instead of Turin . |
| 4 | However , constraints of time and the intellectual range of those who have the teaching of criminal law in charge counsel pessimism , and unless and until the four-year degree is established legal education in general will suffer through the narrowing effect of criminal law as it is now taught . |
| 5 | ‘ He is still the right man for the job , ’ said Kelly and it is now understood the issue will not even be on the agenda when the Football Association holds its annual meeting at Bournemouth on June 26 , a week after the conclusion of the ill-fated US Cup tour . |
| 6 | The position of Gaelic has deteriorated dramatically in the intervening forty years and it is now argued convincingly that a local language is itself a development tool . |
| 7 | It was the 15th bone he had broken in his career and it is now held together by two bolts and an 18-inch steel pin . |
| 8 | Hyenas have always been thought of as scavengers but it is now known that they are also vigorous nocturnal hunters . |
| 9 | More than 40 years later , on a drizzly Friday morning in October , I seek out the rue Didouche Mourad as it is now called . |
| 10 | His appearance at the Scottish Professional Championship at Dalmahoy from 20 to 23 May will be his first on the Tartan Tour as it is now constituted , though he played in the Northern Open at Nairn in 1964 . |
| 11 | After the Oxford Parliament , according to Lord Worcester , Charles promised to " stick to that that is law , and maintain the Church as it is now established … |
| 12 | When I joined the company it was capitalised at about £4m and it is now capitalised at about £1.4bn . |
| 13 | Subsequent investigations have led to some revisions of Gilbert 's original findings and it is now thought by some researchers that the laccoliths radiate from central discordant intrusions known as stocks ( Fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 14 | It was the first work on which he collaborated-and collaborated happily-with Nicholas Georgiadis but it is now given in the heavy scarlet , black and gold designs which Georgiadis substituted in 1980 . |
| 15 | The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece . |
| 16 | However it would appear that Hahnemann was a couple of centuries ahead of his time because it is now known that the DNA of certain viruses can incorporate itself into our own genome , our own inherited material . |
| 17 | Perhaps this marks the single biggest difference between Marxist Socialism , and Empirical Socialism as it is now practised . |
| 18 | This would not please traders , who would lose opportunities to exploit the inefficiencies of the market as it is now constituted . |