Example sentences of "[noun prp] has now [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John McCarthy has now been held hostage in Beirut for four years . |
| 2 | [ New ] Wolverton has now been modernised and , apart from a pleasant public library and some flower beds in the narrow residential streets , I do not think that the result is a great amelioration . |
| 3 | Although Rhys has now been offered treatment in Bristol , subject to ethical approval and a suitable donor being forthcoming , ‘ valuable , perhaps literally vital time has been lost ’ . |
| 4 | Over 50% of the land cleared to produce hamburgers in Brazil has now been exhausted and abandoned . |
| 5 | Two of its leaders were arrested in 1989 and Qibla has now been broken by the security police . |
| 6 | In the Eastern and Central provinces , revision mapping which had originally concentrated on the Proterozoic metamorphic rocks of the 'Mozambique Belt' has now been extended to include Mount Kenya , Africa 's second highest mountain . |
| 7 | But Syria 's original token force of 3,200 men in Saudi Arabia and 600 in the United Arab Emirates has now been augmented by the arrival of a nearly-complete armoured division with Soviet-made tanks . |
| 8 | The Hotel Manila has now been transformed into a Ramada Renaissance Hotel , with correspondingly high prices , so I prefer to stay at the Hotel Gaudi , still unspoilt , which has the advantage of being right opposite the enchanting Theatre Museum . |
| 9 | Mr Parretti has now been removed from the company by his banker Credit Lyonnais , which lent more than $1½ billion to his group of companies . |
| 10 | Joan Daniels has now been appointed Honorary Treasurer of the Medau Society and we wish her the best of luck in balancing the books — figuratively speaking ! |
| 11 | Once scheduled to run on DEC 's MIPS machines , then on its MIPS and Alpha machines , OSF/1 has now been scrapped as far as the MIPS boxes go and declared Alpha-only meat . |
| 12 | Any chance of a Government defeat when the white paper is debated in the Commons on Monday has now been averted with even the majority of hardcore rebels threatening to abstain rather than vote against the Government . |
| 13 | In the ‘ Heard on my Rounds ’ column of this edition a piece mentioning Tom has now been deleted . |
| 14 | A REPORT of the Diocesan Assembly held in October has now been sent to every parish . |
| 15 | and there 's so much of the kind of change in the last few chapters leading up to this which suddenly got Jesus being spat at Saint Mark is telling us that Jesus has now been condemned . |
| 16 | The decision in Gillian has now been overruled by statute : see section 2(1) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 ; Electrical , Electronic , Telecommunication and Plumbing Union v. Times Newspapers Ltd. [ 1980 ] Q.B. 585 ; but that in no way detracts from the persuasive force of what was said by Uthwatt J. in Gillian . |
| 17 | Mr Greenwald has now been appointed chairman of Tatra and Mr Shelby and Mr Rutherford have joined him on the board . |
| 18 | A 900 million peseta ( £5.4m ) programme at Courtaulds España has now been completed . |
| 19 | Higgins has now been fined a total of £17,700 during his tumultuous 18-year professional career . |
| 20 | Bolam Lake has now been designated a Country Park and has a warden to protect it . |
| 21 | Even so , the decision to cover Hong Kong has now been overtaken by developments . |
| 22 | Home Office approval for Anna to stay in the UK as the adopted child of the Golders has now been obtained . |
| 23 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
| 24 | To the rebirth of British Isles forward play in Australia has now been added the regeneration of back play as well . |
| 25 | An entertainment night featuring singer Kate Washington and Dave Hunter has now been planned for April 15 at the Morgan Social Club . |
| 26 | An entertainment night featuring singer Kate Washington and entertainer Dave Hunter has now been planned for April 15 at the Morgan Social Club . |
| 27 | Following this success , McKee has now been promoted to official movie guru and given his own Without Walls series Reel Secrets ( C4 on Tuesday : 9.30–10.00 pm ) . |
| 28 | ‘ After being dropped out of the rankings because of inactivity , Glenn has now been re-rated , ’ said Gregory . |
| 29 | William Waldegrave has now been appointed his lieutenant in the grinding battle within Whitehall , against warriors who will doubtless counterattack with the saddest words of public administration : ‘ We 've always done it this way . ’ |
| 30 | Peter has now been transferred to the Aylestone Day Centre in Hereford , where he has volunteer helpers looking after him all the time . |