Example sentences of "[noun] [is] now [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because of the council 's incompetence , which has meant that her rent card is now marked as owing rent , and lacking a deposit , she would be dependent on a somewhat shady mortgage company for the mortgage to buy such a house ( rent cards are the easiest and most common means of checking on the credit-worthiness of a person on a low income ) . |
| 2 | The experiment is now performed and it is found that the bats avoid collisions just as efficiently as before . |
| 3 | For instance , domestic violence is now seen as unacceptable , whereas until recently it might have been considered a ‘ private ’ affair . |
| 4 | The Prime hardware side is now closed and the company has a letter of intent to pass on what is left of the Prime Information Pick-derived database system to Pick-under-Unix specialist VMark Software Inc , Framingham , Massachusetts on undisclosed terms . |
| 5 | Brigadier Hamilton Baillie is now retired and lving in Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | However , all donated blood is now tested and any blood showing traces of HIV is discarded . |
| 7 | Happily the village is now bypassed and so spared the torture of heavy traffic , a blessing appreciated by the grateful residents . |
| 8 | The law is now settled that either intention or recklessness as to the respective conduct elements is sufficient . |
| 9 | Exercise is now seen as being an important aspect of lifestyle which is associated with health status . |
| 10 | In the case of trade union reform in the UK this is partly because government has tried and failed but more generally because the public sector is now viewed as having a self-interest which need bear no relation to the public interest . |
| 11 | If someone is asked a question and replies yes or no it will be understood that the question is now answered and that there is nothing more to be said . |
| 12 | The mill is now owned and maintained by Beverley Borough Council and is open to the public at certain times of the year . |
| 13 | This job is now completed and we are hoping to hold a short ‘ opening ’ ceremony as soon as it can be arranged . |
| 14 | A rebuilding job is now required and Alan Noble , as chairman , has the task of laying suitably firm foundations off the pitch and finding the right man for the construction work on the other side of the fence at Feethams . |
| 15 | Your new process is now tested and fully operational ! |
| 16 | A new phrasing is now adopted and displaces the original motion , which is lost for ever . |
| 17 | The correspondence between rotor position and the number of excitation changes is now lost and the subsequent rotor movement is erratic . |
| 18 | The Black Boy though now a public house was at one time also a farm for when Robert Hearnden ran the public house in 1840 he also farmed a considerable amount of land , where the large pit is now situated and down into the village . |
| 19 | What has been a human event is now seen as sacred . |
| 20 | Years of scholarship and so many contentious performances mean that the character is now regarded as ‘ difficult ’ , when it can in fact benefit from the freshness and vitality of the natural actor , who will quickly find the comic qualities of the man as well as his serious side . |
| 21 | In England , at least , rural depopulation is now regarded as less of a problem than it was up until the 1940s . |
| 22 | Their season is now finished but he intends to compete again . |
| 23 | Much of the cargo trade is now handled as roll on-roll off , as is all the passenger trade . |
| 24 | ( The idea that supermarkets win customers because their goods are cheaper is passe ; the battle for trade is now won or lost on range and convenience . ) |
| 25 | Graham Hough develops this argument as applied to English studies by claiming that the Christian-humanist ideal is now worn and battered , with a resulting confusion within literary education . |
| 26 | The ceremony ends with a shotgun blasted into the boughs to wake up the sleeping tree.Does it work … apparently yes.It 's now thought that making such a rumpus around the trees scares off harmful insects … so wassailing really does make the orchards healthier . |
| 27 | His wife Eleanor snapped in the summer of 1991 over his affair with widow Georgina Gillan but all bitterness is now forgotten and they are together again . |
| 28 | A wind of change has been blowing around Windsor Park over the past 12 months and Campbell is now regarded as just another new player who will breeze in . |
| 29 | This writer would certainly have preferred the option for moving everything out of the main glen , but the fact that the centre is now seen as being a mistake is encouraging and the partial solution is vastly better than the centre being a rapidly-growing monster . |
| 30 | This approach is now dismissed as formalistic by political scientists who regard such accounts as incomplete , if not misleading . |