Example sentences of "what [vb mod] now be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early 1980s the need to incorporate IT within the teaching of publishing led to participation in industrial panels monitoring the development and adoption of SGML ( Standard Generalized Mark-up Language ) , investment in the first generation of dedicated word-processors , and research into communication protocols between what might now be characterized as taciturn dinosaurs . |
| 2 | If you can forgive Milton for what might now be considered to be a sexist remark , there is a 17th century solidity about his philosophy of learning . |
| 3 | Indeed it is well known that societies which were very poor , by all later standards , allotted very significant time , energy and resources to the production of what would now be distinguished as art-objects . |
| 4 | It was purchased by an architect , Michael Manser , in 1969 , for what would now be regarded as a nominal sum . |
| 5 | Comte 's scheme covers , in his own terms , what would now be regarded as the main social science disciplines , together with philosophy , theology and history . |
| 6 | I had learnt German at Dartmouth where I had specialized in my last year in what would now be known as arts subjects : languages , English and history . |
| 7 | The argument continued into the following year , Samuel Whitbread being deluged with medical journals and copies of letters in support of what can now be recognised as an untenable position i.e. that the stomach in this case had ‘ really taken up in some measure the office of the kidnies ( sic ) ’ . |
| 8 | Indeed , so firmly did they reject the view that adults should be given the right to choose their own cinema entertainment — ‘ whatever turns you on ’ , as the saying went — that their Report marked the beginning of a historic swing of the pendulum away from what can now be seen as the libertarian heyday of British media law . |