Example sentences of "[conj] [be] now known " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Recently , there has been a moving together again , but in the 1930s there developed at the University of Chicago a tradition of social research that is now known as the ‘ Chicago School ’ .
3 The exponential increase in the amount of DNA sequence that is now known , and the universal accessibility of this data through computer databases , mean that any scientist can quickly start to study genes of interest in his or her own laboratory .
4 The two schools later relocated to Saltersgill and are now known as the Beverley Schools for the Deaf , Middlesbrough .
5 Over the centuries these became distinct in type and are now known as Night Goblins .
6 The soft-bodied Ediacaran animals occupied a wide range of Vendian ( Latest Proterozoic ) marine environments and are now known from all over the world .
7 The changes were carried into the Companies Act 1989 and are now known as the ‘ New Settlement ’ .
8 Anyone expecting a story about inflight cyclic stick failure would have been disappointed , however : the piece concerned a helicopter pilot named Paul who had undergone a sex-change operation and is now known as Paula .
9 Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a tragedy if law and order is beginning to break down in the north of Somalia , in what is , after all , the old British Somaliland and is now known to local people as Somaliland ?
10 In addition , two 18th century heirs who had legitimate claims to the throne , but are now known as the Old and Young Pretenders , were both of the House of Stewart .
11 * A small mound ( roughly ‘ T ’ -shaped ? ) of damp sand was made to raise the ball off the ground ( if required ) , for the first shot on every hole and a box of sand for this purpose was located on what was known in the earlier days as the teeing ground , but is now known as the tee , or tee box .
12 And Nicholas , as was now known , had prevented the acquisition by Madeira of the best vine and cane cuttings in Europe .
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