Example sentences of "[pron] is now [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prestige developments , particularly Abingdon Marina , which is now well advanced into its 5th phase offers a comprehensive choice of quality waterside homes set in idyllic tranquil surroundings . |
| 2 | Indeed , all three of them would probably have willingly paid to have been part of the occasion which is now firmly entrenched in French sporting history . |
| 3 | From the hill , which is now completely surrounded by Masai , we hear some growling . |
| 4 | This has been the basis of destructive neurosurgery for pain which is now largely abandoned because the pain recurs after some time . |
| 5 | Software house Logica Plc , London W and software and services company Finsiel SpA , have set up a new joint venture company in Italy called Logicasiel SpA , following Finsiel 's acquisition of the controlling shares in Data Management , Logica 's original joint venture partner in Italy : Logica owns 40% of Logicasiel , while Finsiel , via Data Management , owns 60% ; Logicasiel is made up of Logica General Systems , the original Logica-Data Management joint venture set up in 1985 , and GSO Informatica , which is now wholly owned by the new company ; Logicasiel has 240 staff and turnover of approximately £15m ; it operates in finance , local government and industry , but intends to focus on developing further trade links with the European Commission and pan-European organisations . |
| 6 | Matrix organisation is a structure which emerged in the USA during the 1950s and 1960s and which is now widely practised in a variety of forms . |
| 7 | The Germans do this better than most : Frankfurt airport has a synthetic studded floor which is now widely imitated . |
| 8 | The law of criminal libel is an unnecessary relic of the past which is now generally agreed to have no place in modern jurisprudence . |
| 9 | For the hazard he now claims to recognise is essentially that which several of us have been patiently trying to explain to psychiatrists and others for the past twelve years or so and one which is now officially acknowledged in several overseas countries . |
| 10 | An extensive range of materials is now available in addition to PMMA , which is now little used . |
| 11 | An expansion of production will also come from the use of land which is now sparsely populated . |
| 12 | The most important one in my opinion was the accredited representative 's right to append a dissenting minority attachment to the official report , which is now happily enshrined in Annex 13 as paragraph 6.11 . |
| 13 | Michael Heseltine , when Secretary of State for the Environment , introduced a simple test , which is now permanently enshrined in the Planning circulars : permission will not normally be granted for the demolition of a listed building unless it has been offered for sale on the open market , preferably freehold . |
| 14 | Jeremy Isaacs , former chief executive of Channel Four , challenged Mr Birt to name the mystery secretarial assistant to whom Mr Birt 's company paid a £15,000 salary , and who is now widely assumed to have been Mrs Jane Birt . |
| 15 | The King of Ireland would take over the ceremonial duties of the Irish President , who is now nominally set over the Irish Prime Minister . |
| 16 | In Rene Reaumur , the academie had a first-rate technologist , but a man who is now little remembered . |
| 17 | The horse is the rehabilitated The Committee who ran the proverbial ‘ blinder ’ in the Kim Muir and who is now quietly fancied to give Homer his first win in the National . |
| 18 | This will provide a continual series of shocks when we realize that , in our terms , it is ‘ only a few years ’ since the infant gurgled in its cot , but the ‘ infant ’ , who is now almost grown up , properly considers it to be ‘ a lifetime ago ’ . |
| 19 | There is now little left for the creditors to salvage from the airline 's wreckage . |
| 20 | The land there is now nearly exhausted , and I would suggest that building rates in future years are in fact likely to decrease from what were abnormally high figures in the in the past ten year period . |
| 21 | The large unit known as the syssel , a subdivision of the country broadly similar to the English shire , is in Jutland believed to be pre-Christian , although its function is something of an open question , as it is now best known in connection with later ecclesiastical organisation . |
| 22 | Later that same year both Sandoz and Geigy acquired a financial interest in CAC and it is now wholly owned by Ciba-Geigy . |
| 23 | This byroad was formerly the main highway ; it is now little used although it is kept in good repair to serve the few local farmsteads . |
| 24 | it is now well cared for and open to the public |
| 25 | It is now well recognized that , in so far as survival in the twentieth century is concerned , men rather than women constitute the weaker sex . |
| 26 | Surprising though it may seem , although it is now well established that this is a serious problem with gliding , it is almost unknown in power flying circles or in the Air Force and it is taking many years to convince authorities . |
| 27 | It is now well established that diabetics are prone to early atherosclerosis ( Epstein et al , 1965 Pirart , 1978 ; Kannel & McGee , 1979 ) which appears no different from that in non-diabetics ( Robertson & Strong , 1968 ) . |
| 28 | It is now well established that NO exerts its actions through stimulation of a cytosolic guanylate cyclase with a consequent rise in cycliguanosine monophosphate ( cGMP ) concentrations . |
| 29 | Moreover , it is now well established that an injured plaintiff can recover for the unpaid services of a friend or relative . |
| 30 | It is now well known that distant galaxies are probably about 10 times farther away than Hubble inferred . |