Example sentences of "and [pron] is now [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 2 | Computed tomography is a poor technique for staging prostatic cancer and there is now substantial evidence to demonstrate that MRI is significantly better . |
| 3 | They have not used their powers and there is now total deregulation in this country . |
| 4 | That is a technique which has been practised in this country for many years , and there is now increasing pressure for it , and increasing use of it , in relation to Community legal texts . |
| 5 | The early promise of desmopressin in this role has faded and there is now little to support its routine use except in patients with uraemia . |
| 6 | And he is now certain to be banned in France under rules which forbid professionals returning to play Union . |
| 7 | Bob lives next to an adult activity centre and he is now fully-occupied with swimming , photography and language classes . |
| 8 | However , as a result of the accident , he has completely lost the use of his arms and legs and he is now able to communicate with other people only by using his parents to interpret his signs . |
| 9 | And he is now able to say : ‘ I 'm afraid of nobody . ’ |
| 10 | Brian , incidentally , describes his recovery as 90% complete and he is now able to work full time , travel abroad and play cricket . |
| 11 | It may be that the oleoresins of the dipterocarps have an effect on the bacteria of the fore-stomach of colobines and it is now necessary to study the interaction of these bacteria with fibre and the wide range of tannins , some of which shield protein from degradation in the fore-stomach , or denature them so as to enhance proteolysis . |
| 12 | It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully . |
| 13 | The grosser absurdities of the consultative document have disappeared , and it is now apparent that the cross-curricular elements ( those aspects of learning that will not slot into the conventional ‘ subject ’ boxes yet are still too important to be left to chance ) are going ( somehow ) to be retained . |
| 14 | The action has lasted most of the day and it is now early evening but still light as we have a short sharp skirmish with the enemy rearguard . |
| 15 | In 1982 , the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( RSE ) , one of the most important learned societies in the country , transferred its extensive foreign periodicals collection to the National Library of Scotland ( NLS ) and it is now available in the SSL . |
| 16 | However , the publishing business has recently become more competitive and it is now possible for songwriters to restrict the length of the assignment of copyright to what is known as a ‘ retention period ’ . |
| 17 | It would be impossible to persuade anyone to act as trustee unless the discretion entrusted to him were very liberally conferred , and it is now possible for a trustee to delegate to an agent , not merely pieces of business requiring especial skill , but the whole business of the trust , and escape liability so long as he acts in good faith . |
| 18 | Although the excavations are not yet wholly complete , many hectares of the town have now been revealed to the light of day , and it is now possible to stroll along the abandoned streets once more with the remains of shops , houses and villas on either side . |
| 19 | The situation has changed and it is now possible to determine , for example , how much oxygen is being used by a particular area of the brain while a subject does a task like reading or memorizing a word list ( Raichle 1983 ) . |
| 20 | With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , however , a corpus of Essene material was made available for the first time , and it is now possible to assess the Essenes on their own terms . |
| 21 | For many years national and international agencies have been collecting data on some significant social indicators , and it is now possible , with all the provisos about the nature of the data that I have already made , to make some , albeit rough and preliminary ranking of the nations of the world on the most widely accepted social and welfare criteria . |
| 22 | However , more heterogeneity is seen at the gene level and it is now possible to examine that α 1 AT genotype using techniques including polymerase chain reaction and hybridisation to ASO probes . |
| 23 | This wider concern was of course shared with health authorities , voluntary organizations and housing departments , and it is now explicit policy in the unified local authority social services departments . |
| 24 | Coun Jim Knowles said : ‘ We all knew that this proposal would not go through , and it is now clear that we should not be pursuing a policy of closing schools . ’ |
| 25 | 1421–2 finds him once more using a dialogue convention to describe his woes , and it is now evident that there have been serious developments in the interim . |
| 26 | Said Mr Robinson : ‘ Several views were aired and it is now important that we all try to push in the same direction to the benefit of the club . ’ |
| 27 | None of these posts has been filled , and it is now short of 27 professionals out of a complement of 119 — with little immediate prospect of filling the vacancies . |