Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [noun sg] [is] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | Autocar & Motor is now supplied to all newsagents on a permanent sale-or-return basis . |
| 2 | This issue of a candidate 's personal integrity is known as the ‘ Zipper Test ’ ( often euphemised as the ‘ Character Question ’ ) but in Britain adultery or promiscuity is now only a terminal problem if the politician lies about his exploits ( since Lucrezia Borgia women have rarely figured as dissipated politicians ) . |
| 3 | Similarly , conspicuous consumption or display is now regarded as an acceptable form of behaviour . |
| 4 | Linkage can happen informally in that high salaries are easier to justify where the company is profitable , but in many companies the connection between profitability and remuneration is now made explicit , through the use of bonus payments or share options . |
| 5 | Declared expenditure on defence and security is now more than double the expenditure on health . |
| 6 | As Michael Benton puts it in The Importance of Poetry in Children 's Learning : ‘ The development of a methodology that is based upon informed concepts of reading and response rather than upon conventional , narrowly-conceived ideas of comprehension and criticism is now the priority ’ ( p. 150 ) . |
| 7 | The Transaction System for Sparc will be out in July from Micro Focus and Sun is now selling and supporting the entire Micro Focus Cobol environment for commercial software developers under Solaris 1.1 and Solaris 2 ; including Cobol Compiler , Toolbox , Dialog System and Operating System Extensions . |
| 8 | The Transaction System for Sparc will be out in July from Micro Focus and Sun is now selling and supporting the entire Micro Focus Cobol environment for commercial software developers under Solaris 1.1 and Solaris 2 ; including Cobol Compiler , Toolbox , Dialog System and Operating System Extensions . |
| 9 | The belligerence of their message and the violence of their appeal to negation and revolt is now passed over in silence and their works appear as if they were blank sheets to the privileged audiences of the present day . |
| 10 | Dounreay has apparently given AECL a quotation and AECL is now considering it . |
| 11 | ‘ The profession as a whole is in crisis as nursing is now in direct competition with business , industry and other professions to attract personnel into its ranks . ’ |
| 12 | Many a Latino bosom and loin is now adorned with peekaboo lacework and crotchless panty . |
| 13 | The idea of the male breadwinner providing for his wife and family is now less readily accepted , and research exists to show that incomes are unequally distributed within families . |
| 14 | Our knowledge about how children acquire literacy and numeracy is now considerable . |
| 15 | This station and line is now the subject of a multi-million pound investment scheme . |
| 16 | Whichever explanation is revealed by the major research effort that is still needed for the rest of the 1980s , the population changes discussed above have also had a major impact on rural communities , and so it is to this topic that attention is now turned . |
| 17 | However , the huge increase taking place in the installed base of readers is a signal that CD-ROM is now being bought and used much more widely . |
| 18 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is now based in London . |
| 19 | Quality assured beef and lamb is now available from the northeast of England . |
| 20 | The advancing edge or step is now twice the normal height and so would require twice the amount of new material if it were to advance at the same rate as the other layers . |
| 21 | A piece of farming tradition passed into history today : the burning of straw and stubble is now illegal . |
| 22 | There seems little doubt that recruitment is now more imaginative , and the data in Chapter 2 showed that there is indeed some change in the volunteer body , yet there are still clear patterns that appear difficult to shift . |
| 23 | TV and radio is now almost a speciality , but you could do industrial , trade or scientific media . |
| 24 | This distinction between the press and broadcasting is now much less clear . |
| 25 | The structure and grading is now very sensitive and complex , and any advice I give here has to be responsible and realistic . |
| 26 | The play centres on the severe cultural disturbance generated by the fact that Clara , a girl , has been brought up as a boy and wants to remain one , while her brother , Lucio , has been brought up as a girl which he wants to remain , despite the fact that society is now demanding that both return to their normal gender ascriptions . |
| 27 | The fact that production is now starting to pick up is changing the nation 's sleeping habits once again . |
| 28 | The fact that unemployment is now double its 1979 level shows that the Government have failed . |
| 29 | Whether we like it or not , and I must admit I do , Britain is back to two-and-a-bit party politics and Labour is now favourite to win the next election . |
| 30 | Main trends : More interest and importance is now attached to mother tongue teaching ; improved design of materials for the teaching of language and reading ( Zambia and Tanzania ) . |