Example sentences of "it is now " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is now accepted that UDR members and RUC officers have been leaking to loyalists . |
| 32 | It is now unlikely that a solution will be found in time for next Wednesday 's debate on the poll tax at the Tory conference in Blackpool . |
| 33 | It is now in the private gallery on the fifty-first floor of the Bond Tower in Perth . |
| 34 | Between Berlusconi and RAI it is now open warfare . |
| 35 | It is now a museum of military history , but was once full of armed men and artillery . |
| 36 | On the one hand , GM has joined forces with Toyota in car production and with the Japanese van manufacturer Isuzu , to which it sold a 40 per cent stake in its Bedford van plant in the UK and with which it is now investing £70m to produce a new four-wheel drive vehicle for the European market . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | In the end she proved , and many women police officers are proving , that it is now the men who are holding on to their apron strings . |
| 39 | In March last year , moroever , the German currency was weaker than it is now . |
| 40 | Thank You'-You are about to deflate the small plastic paddling pool in the garden in which no infant has paddled for a month until you realise that it is now full of strange vegetation and even stranger swimming insects and you decide to keep it as a nature reserve . |
| 41 | It is now 10.30pm and I have still not finished today 's Independent . |
| 42 | It is now under the wing of Joe Zilligen , ISC 's finance director . |
| 43 | A source close to Saatchi insists that there is ‘ absolutely no intention of dispersing the collection ’ and is equally adamant that ‘ the collection will be greater in five or 10 years time than it is now . ’ |
| 44 | Between July 1988 , when it is now known the department knew of at least seven cases , and August 1989 , when Geoffrey Dear , the Chief Constable of the West Midlands , purged his CID department — moving 39 serving and former squad officers into administrative roles — at least two more men were convicted on the basis of disputed confession evidence . |
| 45 | The time has passed quickly and it is now getting dusk , the mosquitoes have arrived and the German mortaring of the orchard has started , the first salvo exploding a short distance away causing pieces of earth to fall from the logs covering the roof of the trench , the earth and other bits of debris falling onto the now empty mess-tins . |
| 46 | The action has lasted most of the day and it is now early evening but still light as we have a short sharp skirmish with the enemy rearguard . |
| 47 | It is now getting dark as we settle for the night in the German slit trenches and I share a trench with three French Commandos . |
| 48 | It is now daylight and another new day , as we continue to trudge along the road ; there is no conversation , it 's just heads down and continue to look at the boots of the man in front . |
| 49 | It is now the 6th September and my visits round the Commando units 3 , 4 , 6 and 45 Royal Commando , not forgetting French Commando , have made it clear to me the large number of casualties in this campaign . |
| 50 | It is now virtually impossible for a major London agency to book gigs for many acts who do n't have a record deal . |
| 51 | However , the publishing business has recently become more competitive and it is now possible for songwriters to restrict the length of the assignment of copyright to what is known as a ‘ retention period ’ . |
| 52 | It is now that the band requires an accountant . |
| 53 | As Ken Plummer observes , whereas once it was the homosexual who was viewed as sick , now it might be the heterosexual who is charged with pathology : ‘ Whereas once the homosexual was identified by a long series of character traits , it is now possible to identify the traits of the homophobe : authoritarian , cognitively restricted , with gender anxieties , ( Plummer , ‘ Homosexual Categories ’ , 62 ) . |
| 54 | It is now commonplace to say that the Thatcher governments have had to be highly interventionist in order to extend the market , increase the rights of consumers , and reduce producer power . |
| 55 | The second of these aspects has emerged only relatively recently in the published literature on the postwar Labour government , but it is now a commonplace , certainly among Imperial and colonial historians . |
| 56 | At that time it was very much more of a family firm than it is now . |
| 57 | There were very few major countries I did n't visit during that time and travel was nothing like as easy as it is now . |
| 58 | When I joined the company it was capitalised at about £4m and it is now capitalised at about £1.4bn . |
| 59 | In fact it is now widely recognized that some consumption expenditure of this type , in so far as it combats malnutrition , should be considered as equivalent to investment . |
| 60 | The temptation is to view these publications and the exhibition as a proliferation of surfaces which are in a sense pretty vacant reminders that despite the essentially teleological nature of the Situationist project , it is now immobilised and its documents merely a contribution to culture as the spectacular remains of an abandoned revolutionary ideal . |