Example sentences of "[pers pn] is now [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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31 However , it is now recognized that research on such prediction falls down in terms of both its reliability and its validity .
32 However , it is now recognized that progress in this direction requires a great deal more cooperation in other fields , such as monetary and budgetary policy , than was originally acknowledged .
33 It is now recognized that people who have been on weight-reducing diets subsequently have a lower calorie requirement than they previously had .
34 It is now recognized that many seriously disabled patients can not be resettled into open employment but their need for real work can be met , none the less , by providing a special working environment where good job performance and long-term achievements are rewarded .
35 It is now recognized that a ‘ multi-agency ’ approach in which the NHS , local authority and voluntary agencies cooperate is more successful at reaching potential service-users .
36 Unfortunately , it is now looking as though the true story is more complicated , and that other variables , such as metabolic rate , may be more important .
37 Although there is much to support this view of the origin of our modern idea of time , it is now realized that it can only be adhered to with some reservations , as we shall see .
38 While good standards of physical care , hygiene , nutrition and so forth are clearly vital , it is now realized that the most important need is for the child to receive personal attention and genuine affection .
39 It is now hoped that the full peacekeeping force will be in place by the end of the month .
40 It is now reckoned that 80 per cent of laws enacted by Congress emanate from the executive — if one were to weight these laws in terms of importance , almost certainly that proportion would be higher .
41 It is now understood that in the process land settlement women often lose property rights , access to income , freedom of movement and social support .
42 But it is now argued that the increased radiation would be no more than the existent difference between the poles and the equator .
43 Whereas it once had a reputation as being one of the toughest and most feared women 's prisons in Britain , it is now regarded as having gone soft by some of the prison officers .
44 ( Some 15 other states where the Moral Majority are by no means the silent majority , had hoped to pass similar laws , but it is now assumed that the case will go to appeal and eventually reach the Supreme Court ) .
45 If it is now assumed that the coefficients on and in the unemployment equation are different , so that we are not assuming structural neutrality , we can rewrite the unemployment equation as :
46 It is now assumed that the objective of policy is to maximise economic welfare , where economic welfare is equated with total surplus .
47 In the past thirty years , astrophysicists have discovered dust clouds , radio signals , X-rays , electric and magnetic fields in supposedly empty space , and it is now realised that there is as much energy/matter between the stars as there is contained in them and in all the planets as well .
48 It is now realised that by giving an artist the right kind of support , a dealer can increase their visibility enormously .
49 It is now realised that a million words is insufficient to produce an adequate model of a language since many of the phenomena of the language are so rare that they will be absent from such a corpus .
50 It is now realised that lesser landowners , or gentry , played a crucial role in all aspects of medieval English history from at least the mid-thirteenth century .
51 It is now believed that babies can be sensitized to food even before they are born , because a few food molecules , from food the mother eats , can reach the baby in her womb ( see p 246 ) .
52 This is why to account for their longevity it is now believed that they were a qualified kind of ectothermic homeotherm continually striving to become endothermic homeotherms .
53 It is now believed that the peculiar properties of water are due to what is known as hydrogen bonding .
54 It is now believed that they may have been written for a subscription concert series in 1788 — the ‘ Casino ’ series mentioned in a letter to Puchberg , which may have taken place in the autumn .
55 It is now believed that the graves are those of early Spanish Christians , placed in proximity to the mausoleum of some established holy man .
56 It is now believed that such names were used for monastic communities modelled on genuine desert prototypes in Egypt .
57 It is now believed that to get a true account of unemployment the current official figures should be multiplied by 1.5 .
58 It is now believed that a young man and woman stood in the exact spot where the car bomb was parked — just minutes before it was detonated .
59 A statement from Cleveland Police said : ‘ Following inquiries , it is now believed that Mr MacDonald died of natural causes . ’
60 The decision is likely to postpone a hearing on the charges for many months and it is now thought that the case could eventually be heard in Milan instead of Turin .
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