Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] that [pron] now " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The result is that we now have a more sensitive version of the traditional pig-sticker , which is ten times more accurate than the old tool in testing and calculating the hardness or softness of clay . ’
2 The result is that he now has a company worth £1.5bn .
3 The only difference is that they now want to leave the skip on site for a week at a time .
4 The only real difference is that it now seems to have been taken over by the 22 clubs who , having escaped Football League control , no longer find their pursuit of commercial success frustrated by the decisive voting power of their poor relations .
5 I remember asking on the shop floor of a division , the board of which had been reduced from fifteen to four , what the major difference was This was not because the fifteen previous board members had felt to be down the line , and was told , to my surprise , that the biggest difference was that they now knew what was going on .
6 The only difference was that they now spent some of their free time together , thus giving her even more opportunities to fall more and more deeply in love with him .
7 The immediate outcome was that I now had someone to take me around , and I used to brag a bit about ‘ my ’ Corporal .
8 THE NATIONAL MARRIAGE GUIDANCE COUNCIL ( now called RELATE ) recognised a long time ago that the fabric of society has changed and one of the reasons for the organisation 's change of name is that it now deals with all personal crisis situations .
9 The biggest advantage of this new probe is that it now allows samples to be taken continuously from a conscious , living organism , and these samples can be analysed without further preparation .
10 A piece of hot news is that we now have an offer from BR to visit the Shrewsbury signal box on the 6th of April , though the number of visitors is limited to twenty .
11 As a result with good control of working capital , our cash flow overall was virtually the same as in the previous year in spite of the significant profit collapse and although there may be some further redundancies this year , I do n't expect them to be in any way on the same scale as during nineteen ninety two and the important thing is that we now have costs in line with the lower level of revenue as we look into nineteen ninety three .
12 So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money .
13 Although the main thing was that he now had clear proof that she was alive , he could see a lot more work ahead before he found her , if he ever found her .
14 The only problem is that it now takes a baffling turn .
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