Example sentences of "[pron] now [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What business is it of the State if someone now wishes to be known as a woman , where previously she was considered a man ? |
| 2 | In the first case , I remember watching the old man come slowly down the stairs after ‘ a secret operation ’ never openly discussed but which I now take to be a colostomy . |
| 3 | Whilst I entirely agree with Nochlin 's decision not to amend any of the articles ( ‘ despite the strong temptation to correct what I now know to be errors of fact or feel to be mistakes of interpretation ’ , p. xii ) , neither should they have been allowed to stand in an historical vacuum . |
| 4 | All was well algae-wise apart from a smear of brown algae on the glass , some beard algae on the bogwood and on some of the slow-growing plants and what I now know to be the tell-tale sign of a thin greasy film on the water surface , which is present long before it thickens up into slime algae . |
| 5 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 6 | ‘ being a person on foot ’ This point is proved by the officer or traffic warden stating in evidence ‘ A man , I now know to be John Smith , stepped from the kerb on the south side of the road and walked towards me in contravention of my signal to him to stop etc . ’ |
| 7 | In consequence , according to the rule book , I now had to be taken seriously . |
| 8 | I now bring before you all the attitudes I now realise to be wrong . |
| 9 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 10 | For the record , Rutter and I now appear to be essentially in agreement on the lead-in-petrol hazard , and in accepting that the effects of lead on children 's intelligence is real . |
| 11 | Because if I do n't escape , if something dreadful happened , I shall still know that the person I was and would have stayed if this had n't happened was not the person I now want to be . |
| 12 | Nobody now needs to be , nor should be , vaccinated against smallpox . |
| 13 | The central target of the new rationalism , however , was the chorus , which now came to be seen as an anomalous relic of the past . |
| 14 | But then again , maybe I 'm wrong , for is this not the same Labour Group which now proclaims to be our cultural guardians , who , my Lord Mayor , only last year , sought , in that most bohemian of ways , to dispose of all of civic treasures in one giant car boot sale . |
| 15 | But first you need to notice another feature of English marital arrangements which now tends to be treated as secondary even though in the past it was of central importance . |
| 16 | The latest results mark a milestone for Sherwood , which now claims to be Britain 's biggest sock-maker , pumping out a million pairs a week , and is a supplier to that favourite of underwear retailers , Marks & Spencer . |
| 17 | He was not an alien , northern magnate from whom anything might be expected , but a key figure in the reconstructed royal authority which now needed to be preserved for the young king . |
| 18 | He was not an alien , northern magnate from whom anything might be expected , but a key figure in the reconstructed royal authority which now needed to be preserved for the young king . |
| 19 | In recent years serious damage to the historic interiors of pubs has resulted from the creation of the open-plan which now seem to be pubs ' standard internal layout . |
| 20 | Most of those who discussed human variety were talking about the differences in the physical appearance of human individuals , though they often mixed up characteristics which now seem to be plainly innate , such as skin colour , with characteristics which are plainly cultural , such as mode of dress . |
| 21 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 22 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 23 | This ‘ normal ’ requirement is seen by many commentators as being totally impracticable for most small companies , and fairly difficult even for some large companies , particularly given the extended period which now needs to be considered . |
| 24 | The outcome is a proposed model of assessment which we believe is sound but which now needs to be interpreted and applied in the different single and multidisciplinary settings . |
| 25 | The 50-year ban , which now needs to be ratified by the governments of the 26 " voting members " of the Treaty , was a compromise between those nations which favoured the eventual opening of the Antarctic to mineral exploitation ( notably the USA and UK ) , and those which supported proposals for the continent to be declared a " world park " ( led by Australia and France ) . |
| 26 | Other releases through the Sub Pop empire ( all of which now appear to be subject to the same scheduling difficulties ) include THEE HEADCOATS ' LP , ‘ Heavens To Murgatroid Even ! |
| 27 | Other releases through the Sub Pop empire ( all of which now appear to be subject to the same scheduling difficulties ) include THEE HEADCOATS ' LP , ‘ Heavens To Murgatroid Even ! |
| 28 | Among the matters which now have to be disclosed are directors ’ share dealings in their companies , and the amount of any contributions to political causes . |
| 29 | There are all the pleasurable things that the ex-smoker has learned to associate with smoking , and which now have to be faced alone . |
| 30 | Neither of those sums of course has to be taken into account in any of the mathematics which now have to be done to total up the awards which I would make . |