Example sentences of "are now a [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 The gardens are now a mixture of municipal bedding and 19C specimen trees , all somewhat disfigured by eye-level lollipop lighting .
2 Says a spokesman : ‘ Competitors are claiming hand-helds are now a part of fashion , but we do n't see it like that .
3 Like it or not , American mink are now a part of British wildlife .
4 We 're now beginning a fairly and relatively trouble-free run erm because there are now a series of under and over-passes until we get back to nearer London .
5 The upshot is that London currency derivatives have completely disappeared , currency futures are now a monopoly of the CME while currency options are split between the CME and Philadelphia .
6 There are now a lot of low-cost ‘ share shops ’ we can deal through as well .
7 There are now a number of stretching devices on the market .
8 Techniques have changed to some extent in that there are now a number of excellent buoyant legers on the market which allow anchored floaters to be used to more effect .
9 Many strains of Bacillus thuringiensis , for example , are insect pathogens because they produce insecticidal chemicals and , as Payne ( 1988 ) has discussed , there are now a number of commercially available strains which are used to control a variety of insects .
10 There are now a number of Baptist churches among the gypsies also .
11 Fortunately , there are now a number of assessment instruments designed to utilise spontaneous speech samples , and some of these suggest coding utterances direct from a tape without the need for transcription .
12 There are now a number of books and articles on Portage — the National Foundation for Educational Research ( NFER ) publishes Portage books and materials .
13 There are now a number of types of specially protected areas including national parks , Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) , nature reserves , Heritage Coasts , green belts , Areas of Great Landscape Value , country parks , forest parks , and Sites of Special Scientific Interest .
14 There are now a number of other women artists groups here in Berlin and in Germany .
15 There are now a number of routes to obtaining a qualification in the field .
16 But many historians have trod this path before and there are now a number of glossaries and explanatory works to guide the newcomer .
17 Hong Kong Special Report : The spectre haunting Hong Kong 's future : The ‘ Jewels of the Orient ’ are now a string of tarnished beads .
18 Within a few weeks he began to feel better , and his depression , anxiety , tiredness , panic attacks , fainting and sweating are now a thing of the past Problems , due to too much caffeine are fairly common , but not everyone has the sort of symptoms that Ken experienced .
19 They are a great menace to humans and have been hunted to such an extent that the huge wolf packs that terrorised whole provinces are now a thing of the past .
20 b ) family of marriage : the Jones ( Phil and Maggie ) are now a family of marriage .
21 All these factors — and many , many more which are now a fact of our fast-paced , deadline-packed daily lives — are still helping to create symptoms of stress to the point where a single encounter with an apparently dyslexic British Telecom directory enquiries operator can all but tip us over the brink .
22 In the USA the benefits of a home of one 's own , as generally understood — freedom , privacy , mobility , independence — are now a fact of life for an increasing number of people with learning difficulties .
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