Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] be now " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 2 | ‘ In my view , the case for compensation is now overwhelming , ’ he added . |
| 3 | Saying he would be writing again to the Prime Minister on the matter , Mr Macdonald claimed the moral case for compensation was now overwhelming . |
| 4 | Citizens who had the orthodox Soviet version of Ukrainian history rammed down their throats for decades are now being told a completely different version , arguably also coloured by the political prejudices of its authors . |
| 5 | It points out that certain elements of US policies for grain are now partly decoupled , since there is now an element of reducing support by reducing the quantities on which support payments would be made . |
| 6 | Public support for agriculture is now estimated at 166 per cent of farmers net incomes . |
| 7 | Graeme Dunlop continues as Managing Director of P&O European Ferries Ltd , while responsibility for Dover is now handed to Les Stephenson . |
| 8 | The charge for changing money for non-customers is now 2pc with a £2 minimum . |
| 9 | Losing weight for Sarah is now a difficult task . |
| 10 | Linnaeus ' artificial system of working out the relationships between species was now replaced with a natural system in which as many characters as possible were taken into account . |
| 11 | Summonses for non-payment are now running at a million a year |
| 12 | The administration of Yorkshire is now in good hands , expertly led by Sir Lawrence Byford and chief executive Chris Hassall and shortly by a committee which will be reduced by half to cut the waffling and dissent . |
| 13 | In fact the speed of light is now defined to be a constant . |
| 14 | In the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such methods were more difficult to use ; but the press bureaux with which more and more of the foreign offices of Europe were now equipping themselves ( the Habsburg empire in 1879 , Russia in the first years of the twentieth century , Sweden in 1909 ) were used increasingly to channel information to foreign journalists and news agencies and thus , it was hoped , create a favourable climate of opinion . |
| 15 | The Jews of Palestine were now Israelis . |
| 16 | The programme of work is now all but completed and the future of this initiative is under review . |
| 17 | The stock of books is now in excess of 9,500 and will increase each year . |
| 18 | In my opinion , the onset of rigor is now complete . ’ |
| 19 | Because it was rushed through , another piece of legislation is now needed to put matters right . |
| 20 | Here the River Severn has burst its bank and acres and acres of grass are now under two foot of water . |
| 21 | But these aspects of motor-control are now being modelled by these new AI techniques , with encouraging results . |
| 22 | Three aspects of efficiency are now considered . |
| 23 | Though he claimed all the peoples of Burma were now united he admitted that this unity ‘ is only in the initial stages … tender and fragile ’ . |
| 24 | However , all the important branches of physics are now seen as engineering subjects in their own right and are often taught without much of the underlying physics . |
| 25 | ( Ironically , another interference effect of light is now generally known as Newton 's Rings . ) |
| 26 | By this time in Durham one J. Bailey ( no relation ) had written that ‘ the expense of horses is now become so great , that they should not be used where it can be avoided . |
| 27 | Similarly , only circumcised men were under an obligation to fulfil the whole law ( and here I would remind you that the essence of Judaism was now legalism and observance of the commandments ) . |
| 28 | But the great national hopes built around the figure of Hitler were now falling in ruins ; fewer and fewer looked to a future under his leadership . |
| 29 | The fine web of lines was now distinct . |
| 30 | That so-called ‘ soft ’ subjects like health are now valid areas of inquiry and sport merits better and more detailed coverage has now been realised . |