Example sentences of "be now [vb pp] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are now thought to be the oldest planked boats built anywhere in the world outside Egypt . |
| 2 | Mid-waters of the Southern Ocean are little explored ; for long considered empty , they are now known to be the haunt , possibly the refuge , of several species of fish and squid which feed either near the surface or at the bottom . |
| 3 | In fact the speed of light is now defined to be a constant . |
| 4 | Helicobacter pylori ( H pylori ) infection is now recognised to be the main acquired factor in the pathogenesis of duodenal ulcer duodenal ulcer disease . |
| 5 | The triangular plan of the market place , which determined the shape of the town here , is now seen to be a perfectly rational shape for its purpose . |
| 6 | Hidden for centuries under plaster , the architrave of the main doorway is now revealed to be a monumental inscription from the time of the Emperor Trajan , which must have come from either the Roman baths or the imperial mint , both of which are nearby . |
| 7 | The separation of polymer/solvent systems into two phases as the temperature increases is now recognized to be a characteristic feature of all polymer solutions . |
| 8 | Lamb is another minor casualty ; he is all right to bat , but he can only throw in underarm at the moment because of a niggle , which at first was thought to be a reaction to an inoculation , but is now believed to be a minor ligament problem . |
| 9 | Secondly , Phillips took no account of the expected rate of inflation in his analysis , a variable which , as we have seen , is now believed to be an important influence on the inflation rate . |
| 10 | Launched in the Autumn of 1991 in the United States , Marquis is now believed to be the sixth most popular line of premium crystal sold in the U.S. during 1992 — one of the most successful launches ever of a new crystal brand in that country . |
| 11 | There is not much other evidence for any kind of standing army : the classic historians of the fifth century speak of the Ten Thousand ‘ Immortals ’ , but that word is now thought to be a mistranslation of an Old Persian word meaning ‘ followers ’ , which takes one straight back to feudalism . |
| 12 | Actually what is now taken to be the normal and basic meaning of the English word " family " is far removed from the meaning it carried in earlier times when the economic basis of English society was different . |
| 13 | This significant paper endeavoured to extend geomorphology from what is now appreciated to be a functional viewpoint towards a more realist view , as indicated by the aim ( Strahler , 1952 , p. 923 ) : |
| 14 | The Målselv of Tromsø is now considered to be a local variety of the Norwegian Red , though it was combined with the Red Trondheim in 1951 . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it is now considered to be a form of C. becketti . |
| 16 | Insulin-dependent diabetes is the most severe form of the disease , and is now considered to be an auto-immune disorder in which the cells of the pancreas responsible for producing insulin ( the beta-cells ) are destroyed by the body 's immune system . |
| 17 | However , it is now considered to be an ironstone derived from the weathering of an exhalative , spessartine-bearing protore ( Nicholson , 1987 ) . |
| 18 | It might come as something of a surprise to learn that he is now considered to be an Englishman . |
| 19 | ‘ Adrien de Vries is now considered to be the greatest sculptor of his time and his work has a timeless quality . ’ |
| 20 | Long thought to be a mystery , Coade stone is now known to be a ceramic body , and the British Museum research laboratory 's analysis in 1985 showed that it was a form of stoneware so resistant to the weather that it is as precise today as when it was originally made . |
| 21 | ( This is now known to be an over-generalization , for in some African societies the dead are related to as though they were still living and treated as members of the kinship group . ) |
| 22 | But the shape , who was now revealed to be an amiable-looking man of about thirty , remained silent . |