Example sentences of "[adj] and [is] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | The well was completed and tested from the Sedco 700 and is now tied back to the Thistle platform . |
| 2 | Its more than a hundred and seventy years old and is now derelict , but conservationists hope it will be renovated by whoever buys it . |
| 3 | Lumping British art with international modern art under the single roof of the Tate has always been anomalous and is now becoming intolerable . |
| 4 | Our robin with the white flashes in its wings has ceded the prime territory nearest the house to another and is now with its mate , centred on the next bed along and ventures only occasionally into the crumb-patch , from which it is firmly evicted . |
| 5 | The basic rate of income tax was 30p in the pound in 1979 and is now 25p , with a new lower rate of 20p for the first £2,000 earned above personal allowances . |
| 6 | He first took to powerlifting in 1979 and is now a qualified coach and referee . |
| 7 | During the World Cup in Brive I met my friend and former Romanian No.8 George Dumitru , who captained Romania against Wales in 1979 and is now playing and coaching in Limoges . |
| 8 | The school was built in 1877 and is now the village hall . |
| 9 | This principle was first upheld by the House of Lords in the case of D v NSPCC [ 1978 ] AC 171 and is now recognised within the statutory code . |
| 10 | This phenomenon was termed polar wandering and is now thought to arise from the movements of the continents themselves rather than from any significant shift in the location of the magnetic pole itself . |
| 11 | It rose during the early 1980s but has fallen 9% since 1986 and is now about the same level as in the mid 1960s . |
| 12 | Swan Hunters was reprivatized in January 1986 and is now reduced to a work force of some 3000 and one building berth at Wallsend , although other yards are being used for preliminary fabrication . |
| 13 | The original building remains virtually intact and is now the administrative block of the North Wing . |
| 14 | A fine example was found in Lincoln in 1866 and is now in the British Museum ( fig. 14.4 ) , i others came from Richborough ( fig. 14.5 ) and from a grave at Colchester on a Castor Box on which a lion appears in a venatio and being held at bay by a nude bestiarius with a long hunting spear . |
| 15 | ( It was sold in the USA during 1980 and is now N281L . ) |
| 16 | Interest cover was already strong and is now at nearly ten times patently er , a very healthy level and whether or not you add back the good will on other er , acquisitions , I dare say the ratio is at a very low level indeed . |
| 17 | Coningsby has been an R.A.F. station since 1940 and is now the base for Phantom fighters . |
| 18 | A petro-chemical and pharmaceuticals company , Elf Aquitaine was founded in 1941 and is now among the ten largest oil , gas and chemical companies in the world , with an operating income in 1991 of FFr18.8 billion . |
| 19 | Among the smaller examples Oakham Castle in Rutland still possesses its Great Hall which is famous for its windows , doorways and Transitional style capitals ; it dates from 1190 and is now used for Assize Court sittings . |
| 20 | They also show that , for the United States , the dependency ratio actually peaked in 1960 and is now decreasing because of the return of women to the workforce . |
| 21 | The average house price , according to the Halifax sample , was £30,952 in 1984 and is now £60,837 . |
| 22 | The Highwaymen is a country coalition that began in 1984 and is now touring Europe . |
| 23 | One only has to note the impressive erudition manipulated by the likes of Borges , Cortázar , Carpentier or Fuentes or the intertextual references that abound in the new narrative to realize that the Spanish-American writer has long since ceased to be a provincial and is now very much a citizen of the world . |
| 24 | It was formed in 1981 and is now part of the new 101 ( London ) Engineer Regiment , the bomb disposal experts of the TA . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's quite likely that for every case of reported illness there are ten to a hundred more , ’ said Jim Curran , the AIDS task force chairman at the CCD , who was seconded to the job for three months in 1981 and is now permanent The incubation period is unusually long — possibly as much as three years . |
| 26 | This led in due course to the enactment of a new code which was substituted for the relevant sections of the Act of 1972 by the Transport Act 1981 and is now found , without material alteration , in the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 27 | Michelin , a tyre firm , bought Uniroyal Goodrich in America for $1.5 billion and is now staggering under the debts and a fall-off in its business . |
| 28 | The Colinton Section of the Bypass was approved by Planning Committee in November 1977 and is now under construction with a completion date scheduled for early next year . |
| 29 | The Citroen XM turbo diesel was in 6 and is now in 12 , while the 2.0 litre petrol model goes from 6 to 13 . |
| 30 | It was low in numbers a century ago , when the Piedmonts of Italy were being imported for beef and good red milking cows came from Bergamo , but by 1979 it numbered 150,000 and is now a well-established milk and meat breed in France , though almost extinct in Italy , where it is known as the Tarina . |