Example sentences of "be now [vb pp] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the details of their theory are now seen to be clearly wrong , their insight , that different parts of the brain are responsible for different processes , has stood the test of time and research and informs much of our current understanding of the brain . |
| 2 | The figures are Dataquest estimates of what a buyer actually pays after standard retail discounts , as opposed to list prices.Prices are now seen to be about 10% higher in Europe than in the US , against 25% a year ago . |
| 3 | Miasms are now recognized to be both inherited and acquired ; and often a specific remedy called a nosode , which is related to the infection in question , is required before a chronic condition can be entirely cleared up . |
| 4 | Britain 's invisible earnings , which are made up of a surplus on things like insurance and banking offset by government contributions to the European Community and overseas aid , are now projected to be about £2,670million in 1989 , less than half the £6,100million total earned in 1988 . |
| 5 | These areas of hypersensitivity are now shown to be functionally important in vivo , as they mark regions which comprise a putative locus control region ( LCR ) . |
| 6 | ‘ The costs of absence are now shown to be much higher than had previously been thought , ’ said Robbie Gilbert , the CBI 's director of employment affairs . |
| 7 | There are now estimated to be around 50 in the Moscow area , and 100 in the Russian federation as a whole . |
| 8 | There are now estimated to be about 760,000 minke whales in the Antarctic , up from less than 200,000 in the early 1970s , and some supporters of whaling argue that the increase in minke numbers is putting pressure on food stocks and hampering the recovery of more seriously endangered whale species . |
| 9 | Thus the lack of fundamental ecological knowledge has played a significant role in the shaping of these forests and lack of foresight has led to the demise , by deliberate poisoning and girdling , of many species which are now considered to be commercially viable . |
| 10 | The signalling properties of the polarizing region are now known to be quite unrelated to cell death which is a separate process . |
| 11 | Institutions engaged in higher education are now expected to be much more aggressively entrepreneurial , and they are also being invited to help their students to acquire marketing and business skills through the Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative . |
| 12 | Voters were now said to be more worried about ‘ poor public services ’ than they were about high taxes . |
| 13 | If the sense in which all behaviour was non-autonomous turned out to be the same as the sense in which abnormal behaviour is now understood to be so , then the same attitude to it would be appropriate . |
| 14 | Cancer , most feared of illnesses , is now seen to be intimately related to our emotional life . |
| 15 | This anomaly is now seen to be largely explained by the intervention of the patron — the broker land agent — who set the objective for both lawyer and client in two of the three cases . |
| 16 | The delayed Subsystem is now scheduled to be generally available in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 17 | He was subsequently returned to Khartoum for medical treatment and is now believed to be back in Kober prison . |
| 18 | Despite there being a demonstration of COSE desktops at the announcement last week — which included drag and drop between Motif and Open Look applications — what the resulting products will actually be remains unclear until the specification is released , and that is now expected to be sooner than the end-of-June timeframe that was given . |
| 19 | The US Federal Trade Commission is still trying to put together a case against Microsoft Corp that will win support from its commissioners , US PC Week reports , and will be collecting final depositions this week : the complaint is now expected to be drastically simplified in an effort to make it acceptable to at least three of the four voting commissioners , and the latest depositions are primarily focused on allegations that Microsoft intentionally built incompatibilities into its software so it would n't work well with offerings from competitors — a complaint set off by Novell Inc , which alleged DR DOS would n't work with Windows 3.1 because Microsoft deliberately added incompatible code ; Microsoft said it had ‘ never developed a product to be intentionally incompatible with some other product ’ ; the Commission is also expected to address the manner in which Microsoft disseminates technical information to developers , and the manner in which it has capitalised on operating system monopoly to build applications sales ; if at least three of the four commissioners agree with the complaint , the case will go to administrative court and Microsoft will be sued by the federal government for anti-trust violations , but the company is not expected to be asked to do anything so drastic as sell units . |
| 20 | The landmark structure has been out of action for two years but is now expected to be back in service in July . |
| 21 | The global demand is now estimated to be over 1000 million tonnes . |
| 22 | A hundred and thirty thousand London homes destroyed , so the precise number of homeless is now estimated to be around only a quarter of a million . ’ |
| 23 | The earth is now thought to be over 5,000 million years old , and the oldest fossils are over 3,000 million years old . |
| 24 | The poetic name has been replaced by terms such as " chaotic complex " and the pseudo-scientific " Olistostromes " without really adding to our knowledge , but the essential point is that submarine landslipping is now thought to be only part of the process rather than the whole . |
| 25 | The exploration potential of the PSC is now considered to be fully tested and reduced drilling activity is planned for the future . |
| 26 | This is now considered to be extremely dangerous — she could bite and break whatever it is and inhale the broken bit . |
| 27 | However , this view is now known to be rather naive . |
| 28 | It is surely significant ( both scientifically and economically ) that the great " hard rock " massif of Scotland is now known to be almost entirely surrounded by much later " soft rock " basins . |
| 29 | The African land snail , by contrast , is now known to be much more choosy , with a complex courtship in which suitors are often unceremoniously rejected . |
| 30 | Mr Sam 's now said to be seriously ill , but stable in hospital after two operations . |