Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] be now [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At its most blatant , posts which had once been the preserve of dons from Oxford or Cambridge were now given to businessmen . |
| 2 | Autocar & Motor is now supplied to all newsagents on a permanent sale-or-return basis . |
| 3 | My earlier studies of fish and birds were now extended to mammals and I ended up as the curator of the largest collection of mammalian species in the world — at the London Zoo . |
| 4 | The press release also pronounced Christmas trading to be ‘ excellent ’ , and said that both Waterstones and Harrods were now committed to a long and successful relationship . |
| 5 | Indeed HP and IBM are now thought to be working on much closer relationship ( UX No 430 ) . |
| 6 | Indeed Hewlett-Packard and IBM are now thought to be working on much closer relationship — ‘ Hewlett-Packard and IBM is a done deal , ’ according to one insider . |
| 7 | Main trends : More interest and importance is now attached to mother tongue teaching ; improved design of materials for the teaching of language and reading ( Zambia and Tanzania ) . |
| 8 | Some parents say they can barely afford children : living costs rocketed in the late 1980s , and Taipei is now reckoned to be one of the world 's most expensive cities in which to live . |
| 9 | the on-going place producing programme begun in 1970 was suspended indefinitely and expenditure is now limited to completing major place producing and redevelopment projects already under way . |
| 10 | Financial details were not revealed , but IBM is now said to be ‘ one of the two largest investors ’ in the privately held firm . |
| 11 | But Joseph was now resigned to moving to the reservation , saying : ‘ It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk , but I urged my people to be quiet , and not to begin a war . ’ |