Example sentences of "of [noun] be now [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new battalion of Fusiliers was now considered to be of fighting strength and was expected to join the Allies on the Western Front . |
| 2 | The 1954 scheme did not put anything in place of the development charge ; the collection of betterment was now left to the blunt instruments of general taxation . |
| 3 | Two men who had come in to quaff down great glasses of cidre were now returning to their scythes in a field opposite , to join a line of sodden reapers there . |
| 4 | In fact the speed of light is now defined to be a constant . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Darwin 's own account of the unrestrained ‘ law of battle ’ in animals readily fits in with the theory of natural selection ; therefore , as his account of the law of battle is now thought to be wrong , we are left with the problem of reconciling new observation and established theory . |
| 7 | An average of 75% of leavers was now proceeding to University . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That the signing of Nafta was now thought to be unlikely until after the November 1992 US presidential elections was a serious political setback for Salinas , who had invested considerable political capital in reaching an accord . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The teeming slums of Kampala are now coming to life . |
| 12 | However , the span of control is now thought to be dependent on : |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Former Governor Jerry Brown of California is now reduced to a spoiling game . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Indeed , this version of English was now beginning to be justified at some provincial universities on grounds of the kind proposed by Reid . |
| 17 | The issue of jobs was now added to the left agenda , as the print workers finally lost their grip on the production jugular of the industry in the first fundamental update of print technology since the late Middle Ages . |