Example sentences of "is now [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Britain is now called the dirty man of Europe because of our government 's lack of care for the environment . |
| 5 | Government grant is distributed through a mechanism which is now called the standard spending assessment , an awful word , or phrase , but it is absolutely vital , and if you look at the standard spending assessment given to this county the government is saying we ought to be able to provide all the services for a total cost of eight hundred and seventy nine pounds per charge payer . |
| 6 | The first band of earnings attracting this contribution should run up to what is now called the lower earnings limit . |
| 7 | This process is begun more explicitly in Barthes 's S/Z which in its change of direction opens what is now called the post-structuralist era and marks the end of the so-called classical or scientific period of structuralism . |