Example sentences of "[prep] what [is] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to records , there existed in 1378 , a hamlet called ‘ Stronde ’ along the Middlesex bank of the River Thames , just east of Brentford , which indicates the existence then of what is now called Strand-on-the-Green . |
| 2 | The last , and possibly the most beneficial , development is the introduction of what is now called ‘ centralised ’ training . |
| 3 | Once again the Italian School is represented by the largest number , fifty-one ; there are no additional Spanish drawings ; the British School has increased by two , the Flemish by eight , the Dutch by twenty-three , the French by twenty-nine , but the surprise is the rapid expansion of what is now called the Central European School , comprising German , Swiss and Prague Schools , of which there are twenty-nine compared with the fifteen published in the first volume . |
| 4 | An explicit statement of what is now called the concept of a biotic community was made in Karl Möbius ' study of oyster beds ( 1877 ) . |
| 5 | Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex . |
| 6 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
| 7 | The whole idea of this experiment , as I see it , is that everyone in it is going to decide , and carry out , much of what is now decided by experts and provided by big organisations . |
| 8 | Much of what is now recognised as social work did not exist 30 or 40 years ago , and what did — child care work , work with mentally ill people and some other matters — was practised on a much smaller scale , away from the glare of the media . |
| 9 | Following the 1974 NHS reorganisation , we had the introduction of what is now referred to as the departmental system of budgeting ( as in level 2 in Fig. 3.2 ) . |
| 10 | The effect of what is now sections 128 of the Act is that if particulars of such rights are not set out either in the memorandum or articles , or in a resolution or agreement ( a copy of which has to be sent to the Registrar under section 380 ) they must be given in a statement , in the prescribed form , sent to the Registrar within a month of allotment of the shares . |
| 11 | This pattern had never been noticed before , but as soon as researchers started looking for it , several case studies of what is now known as phonological dyslexia were reported in rapid succession in the early 1980s . |
| 12 | It was demolished soon afterwards in the redevelopment of what is now known as the South Bank . |
| 13 | The present tenants of what is now known as John Dakyn House , renovated and restored and comprising six modern flats , have like the original tenants to have been born or lived in the parish for ten years , be of retirement age or invalids . |
| 14 | That band is Nirvana , and if you 're one of the 12 million owners of their last album , Nevermind , you 'll know that their radical reworking of what was heavy metal into what is now grunge has completely destroyed the old image of the moronic metal band . |
| 15 | It 's the first foot clinic of it 's kind in the country , dealing with what 's now called podiatry , formerly chiropody ; bunions , ingrowing toenails , sports injuries and the like . |
| 16 | Colin Renfrew On the international scene , archaeology in those years underwent the revolution sometimes referred to as the ‘ new archaeology ’ and has continued , as I see it , with what is now called processual archaeology : the most important component is a much greater concern to make archaeological theory and reasoning methods explicit . |
| 17 | Recently , experimental work has investigated the use of the programmed technique in what is now called computer-assisted learning , where the programmes are fed into the computer ; the machine can then , if the initial preparation has been thorough enough , monitor the responses of a great many students at a time , switching them to the appropriate branching sequence as their responses demonstrate the need . |
| 18 | Because the Metropolitan Police were objecting to reversed stairs which obstructed the driver 's vision to the left , 36–45 had Milnes ‘ Exhibition ’ staircases , which took a wide sweep in what is now known as the ‘ Normal ’ direction , i.e. the bottom step just behind the controller and the top step close to and at right angles to the bulkhead . |
| 19 | For the English-speaking nations , this concept was first realised on a substantial scale in what is now known as The Oxford English Dictionary , ( originally entitled A New English dictionary on Historical Principles ) . |
| 20 | From the chapel they 've taken the thing that we 're sorriest about , which is the cockfighting chair that Alexander Pope the poet used the two summers that he spent working here in what 's now called Pope 's Tower , translating the fifth volume of Homer 's Iliad . |
| 21 | In the mid-1980s , I was addicted for nearly a year to ‘ free-basing ’ cocaine , which is no different in any way from what is now called crack . |
| 22 | Tectonic plate movement may well have split the Ghat , cutting off Sri Lanka from what is now Travancore . |
| 23 | This significant paper endeavoured to extend geomorphology from what is now appreciated to be a functional viewpoint towards a more realist view , as indicated by the aim ( Strahler , 1952 , p. 923 ) : |
| 24 | The first band of earnings attracting this contribution should run up to what is now called the lower earnings limit . |
| 25 | This is somewhat similar to what is now recognised in animal conflict . |
| 26 | ‘ Not one of those Acts responds to what is now contained in the EC social charter , ’ said Mr Lyons . |
| 27 | I will turn finally to experiments on what is now called the ‘ child 's developing theory of mind ’ ( see Astington , Harris and Olson , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | The new proposals extended the rating for all works on what is now known as ‘ main river ’ — the larger watercourses — to the total catchment area . |
| 29 | The captain of this ship , we are told , ran his vessel aground on what is now known as The Spanish Rock and one or more tailless cats clambered to safety there . |
| 30 | Darwin had to think carefully about what is now called the problem of speciation : how a single species splits up into a number of ‘ daughter ’ species . |