Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] now [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be clear by now that linear plots are never quite absent from even the most experimental of these novels . |
| 2 | These motives are obviously relevant to the discourse analysis I have been describing here ; indeed it will be clear by now that the two motives correspond , respectively , to the ‘ dominance ’ and ‘ difference ’ currents . |
| 3 | It should be clear by now that the relations between hyponymy and entailment are quite complex ; however , the definition of hyponymy adopted earlier bypasses these problems , so we shall pursue them no further . |
| 4 | It will be clear by now that Simmel recognized the necessity of culture for the development of society , and saw the massive increase in material culture as constructive of new developments in the very possibilities of societies . |
| 5 | It will , I hope , be clear by now that , unlike Hallidayan linguists , FSP theorists do not see theme and rheme as being realized chiefly by their relative positions in the clause . |
| 6 | It should be clear by now that this is n't the fault of desktop publishing , merely of the way in which it has been implemented . |
| 7 | It should be clear by now that the speaker does not have a choice in the matter of the pitch of the syllables in the tail . |
| 8 | It will be obvious by now that my account of the emergence of black sportsmen runs contrary to such views and I can not accept that blacks are ‘ made for physical things ’ any more than I can that their continued failure in more formal academic realms is based on inadequate intellectual resources . |
| 9 | The days will be long between now and March 31 when at last the organisation , a charity it is keen to stress , names its Brain of the Year . |
| 10 | It should be evident by now that , until very recently at least , the very considerable discretionary powers of English sentencers were largely exercised in a policy vacuum . |
| 11 | Well no I did it last week and one of the references I could n't remember the name of the woman , so I just put Mrs blank and I just left it so I thought I 'd do it again cos there were a couple of bits I did wrong and a bit dodgy , so I though save me writing it I 'll just do it all over again but it looks like I 'm not gon na be able to now because we 've brought out here for a piddling stupid fire drill ! |
| 12 | It must be apparent by now that satisfactory studies are likely to be rare . |