Example sentences of "[be] now [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 Dick Lindsell sums up a notable achievement in this way : ‘ C&P having been conveived and put into motion by ICI in a move which some saw as defensive , I believe that we are now increasingly demonstrating that we are as attractive as other ICI businesses .
2 We have found that despite the low stringency conditions , the specific PCR product is still readily detectable but that additional non-specific products are now also amplified that serve as a perfect internal control .
3 But budgetary relations between the White House and Democratic leaders in Congress are now so strained that some officials warn that the whole process of long-term deficit reduction could be threatened .
4 Previously self-reliant communities are now so dispersed that the whereabouts of family members remains unknown .
5 Some football hooligans , the article goes on , are now so organised that they have the audacity to leave professionally printed calling cards in the pockets of their battered victims .
6 A flight from positivism has been witnessed in recent years in the social sciences , and the argument appears to be now widely accepted that since knowledge is never the direct product of experience .
7 And it is now equally clear that Mrs Thatcher 's response to this ultimatum was similarly direct .
8 It is now generally recognized that the attempt to analyse consciousness in terms of behaviour amounted to flying in the face of the facts .
9 It is now generally accepted that Frolik was a plant designed to waste MI5 's resources while important spies remained undetected and to sow seeds of distrust between MI5 and the CIA .
10 However , it is now generally accepted that β-thromboglobulin levels are elevated in diabetics ( Davis et al , 1979 ) and further evidence came from a large study of β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 in diabetics compared to age- and sex-matched controls ( Betteridge et al , 1981 ) .
11 Using this method conflicting findings have been reported in studies of diabetic subjects ( Dollery et al , 1979 ; Davis et al , 1981 ) , and it is now generally accepted that there may be considerable non-specific interference in assaying this metabolite in plasma which might explain the different findings ( Greaves & Preston , 1982 ; Dollery et al , 1983 ) .
12 It is now generally accepted that this meeting was the first step on the unpremeditated road which led to the establishment of the London Veterinary College .
13 It is now generally accepted that nurture — the environment in which a child grows up — is a more important factor than heredity when it comes to the intelligence of the resulting adult human being .
14 It is now generally accepted that , about a lightyear from the Sun , far beyond the orbit of Pluto , there is a belt of at least 10 million comets , collectively known as the Oort Cloud , after the great Dutch astronomer Ian Oort .
15 It is now generally accepted that there is a division of labour within the brain , with different parts of the brain carrying out different functions .
16 It is now generally accepted that Jesus 's mother was the sister of Elizabeth , the mother of John .
17 It is now generally accepted that words prefixed by pett or pit ( similar to the Welsh and Cornish peth for ‘ thing ’ or ‘ piece ’ ) are of Pictish origin , as in places such as Pitlochry ( ‘ stony share ’ ) and Pittenweem ( ‘ share of the cave ’ ) .
18 Origin of Wings and Flight — It is now generally accepted that wings arose , perhaps in the early Devonian , as lateral expansions of the thoracic terga ( Hamilton , 197 z ) .
19 It is now generally accepted that the universe evolves according to well-defined laws .
20 We will not assign these spectra in detail , but it is now generally accepted that the ruthenium complex has three units held together only by metal-metal bonding , whereas the iron complex has bridging CO ligands , as well as many terminal ones .
21 There is a rich variety of different forecasting procedures , and it is now generally accepted that no one method is ‘ best ’ in every situation , but rather that the choice depends on various practical considerations .
22 It is now generally accepted that FAP is fully penetrant ( polyps are present ) if the bowel is examined endoscopically .
23 It is now generally acknowledged that a man is usually at the peak of sexual potency and performance around the early twenties ; thereafter a slow decline sets in .
24 It is now generally acknowledged that Helicobacter pylori infection is the major cause of antral gastritis .
25 It is now generally realised that unless something is done to reduce accidents , other measures taken for the good of a nation 's health are being undermined .
26 Overall , it is now generally held that the interactions between fruiting plants and birds in both tropical and temperate regions are loose , asymmetric , variable in time and space , non-obligate and apparently inefficient .
27 It is now generally appreciated that Warner Bros had been particularly badly hit by the depression , largely because of the furious rate at which they had acquired movie-houses in the 1920s .
28 Despite John Ruskin 's strictures ( ‘ Such works as … the iron roofs and pillars of our railway stations … are not architecture at all ’ ) , it is now generally admitted that not only are they architecture but they are also works of art .
29 It is now generally agreed that the natural way of classifying organisms is hierarchical : that is , in a series of nested sets .
30 There is still uncertainty about the origins of the Lombards — frequently called the Longobards — but it is now generally agreed that they were central European , and probably arrived over the Alps from Hungary .
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