Example sentences of "be now [vb pp] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rough Trade , for instance , had to dip into the piggy bank to move into the American market , where they 're now said to be pulling out . |
| 2 | Around two thirds of promotional budgets are now reckoned to be spent on the less glitzy marketing activities such as direct marketing and sales promotion . |
| 3 | Other US nuclear plants are now said to be studying their fuel pool cooling . |
| 4 | Let us hope that the Danes will vote ‘ No ’ in their referendum on June 2 , thus forcing all members to renegotiate the treaty , as many of them are now said to be having second thoughts of their own . |
| 5 | Novae are now believed to be caused by gas spilling from one star to another in a close double-star system , but 30 years ago they were a complete mystery ; only two dozen had been spotted in time for astronomers to study them while they were still erupting . |
| 6 | This is an important change in practice and unless denied , damages are now deemed to be admitted . |
| 7 | Scottish Office minister Allan Stewart said most of the women who have still to be contacted are now thought to be living in the United States . |
| 8 | There are various ways in which fibre-depleted foods are now thought to be linked with cancer of the large bowel . |
| 9 | Indeed HP and IBM are now thought to be working on much closer relationship ( UX No 430 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They have advanced down the Asmara road in the past four weeks and are now reported to be operating south of Dese . |
| 12 | ‘ It may well be that the factors which influenced the sheriff are strongly mitigating and should be given proper consideration by the children 's hearing when they come to consider the future arrangements for L on the footing that the grounds of referral are now held to be established . ’ |
| 13 | The system is now geared to be accessed on-line , typically through a specialist systems house , such as Donovan Data Services ( DDS ) , and the thick weekly two-volume printed reports familiar to all TV buyers and planners for many years are no more . |
| 14 | With Convex already under its belt , Dolphin is now understood to be courting Data General Corp , and already selling SCI simulation systems and high level design language implementations to the likes of Apple Computers Inc and the Centre for Research into Nucleonics , Geneva , Switzerland . |
| 15 | Her sister , Khieu Ponnary , is married to Pol Pot , and was influential in the 1975 government , but is now understood to be confined to hospital because of mental illness . |
| 16 | Since it joined in 1980 Japan has listed only four sites for protection and one of these , Lake Utonai on the northern island of Hokkaido , is now said to be threatened by secret plans to build a 40-kilometre flood control canal . |
| 17 | Already linked with top Italian clubs Roma and Juventus , Platt is now said to be booked for a £5.7 million summer move to Napoli . |
| 18 | England midfielder Platt , already linked with Roma and Juventus , is now said to be booked for a £5.7m summer move to Napoli . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Germany 's employer , trade and industry associations said they had formed a committee to fight xenophobia , which is now said to be putting off foreigners from investing in the country 's impoverished East . |
| 20 | Pentium pricing is now scheduled to be announced on May 20 . |
| 21 | OSF is now believed to be looking for a commercial partner to take over and productise the technology , which is much-needed within the industry . |
| 22 | Walkinshaw is now believed to be helping Donington Park prepare for next year 's European Grand Prix . |
| 23 | But the Chancellor is now believed to be planning to bring in the full rate straight away . |
| 24 | Again Dr Borlase is considered to have erred on the side of romance and the Cornish term for mid-summer , ‘ golowan ’ , is now believed to be derived from ‘ gol Jowan ’ , the feast of John . |
| 25 | Formerly affiliated to the Psychopomps gangcult , her chapter was broken up in 1995 during a pitched battle with the Road Cavalry in Spanish Fork , Deseret , Jessamyn is now believed to be working alone . ’ |
| 26 | Greater examination of vehicles entering the complex is now expected to be introduced , and additional security staff may be deployed . |
| 27 | It has been considerably delayed , and it is now expected to be launched formally in the autumn . |
| 28 | Work is on schedule and the locomotive is now expected to be steaming again later this year . |
| 29 | The moribund mainframe market is about to wake up to a flurry of developments in the storage area , with Hitachi Data Systems Inc preparing to announce a Symmetrix-type disk array for mainframes on May 25 , and IBM Corp following up a week later with launch of the 3390-9 disk drive , which is now expected to be accompanied by a new 3990-4 controller . |
| 30 | Indeed , criticism 's aspiration to deal with " the whole conditions of intellectual health in a society " is now shown to be misconceived . |