Example sentences of "would now be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual list was grammar , rhetoric and dialectic ; music , arithmetic , geometry and astronomy — where only music and some elements of grammar and rhetoric would now be recognized as ‘ arts ’ . |
| 2 | If they were n't there , those houses , I suspect a large proportion of those people would now be living in North Yorkshire . |
| 3 | Over the years , however , the Palestinian mainstream had become accustomed to financial support from GCC states like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and this support would now be called into question . |
| 4 | Mr Watson said the defence would now be looking for a ‘ courting couple ’ who were seen on the bus at the time of the incident . |
| 5 | But yes , the trend is the same as the national one , there is an increase in arson , possibly that 's also influenced by the fact that we 're better at detecting arson and we 're becoming increasingly more so as the years go by , and calls that would have been recorded as unknown in the past , would now be recorded as this . |
| 6 | The car would now be calling for him at seven . |
| 7 | It was purchased by an architect , Michael Manser , in 1969 , for what would now be regarded as a nominal sum . |
| 8 | His régime would now be regarded as a kind of benevolent paternalism , and most players today would be unlikely to tolerate some of his harsher reactions . |
| 9 | Comte 's scheme covers , in his own terms , what would now be regarded as the main social science disciplines , together with philosophy , theology and history . |
| 10 | If you had done as I said , and given the keys to the princess , you would now be dressed in silk , sitting at her left hand . |
| 11 | After yesterday 's meeting , committee chairman Councillor Charles Booth said a recommendation for removal of W.H.Spence from the list of approved contractors would now be made to the council 's general-purposes committee . |
| 12 | For the simple truth was that , however many signatures we had assembled on petitions or however extensive the lists of worthy organizations opposed to Hinkley C , the decision would now be made in the totally different context of this classically British performance . |
| 13 | It therefore seems probable that what the early personality studies of living creative subjects had revealed was their tendency to the schizoidness of which Bleuler writes , and which would now be referred to as ‘ schizotypy ’ . |
| 14 | WHO would have thought , back in 1980 , that we would now be reading in the popular railway magazines a number of reports that British Rail 's Provincial sector possesses some routes which are promising to become profitable ? |
| 15 | After them , families with heads in occupations which would now be placed in social class II : civil servants , school teachers , accountants , and the like ( table 2.4 ) . |
| 16 | Indeed it is well known that societies which were very poor , by all later standards , allotted very significant time , energy and resources to the production of what would now be distinguished as art-objects . |
| 17 | It would have required an enormously creative imagination to have foreseen the kinds of jobs that the children and grandchildren of those farmworkers would now be engaged in . |
| 18 | It is submitted that a number of cases which in the past applied the literal rule would now be decided in the opposite way . |
| 19 | A case on these facts would now be covered by the Motor Insurance Bureau Scheme , whereby motor insurers provide a fund to meet claims against uninsured drivers . |
| 20 | The district council 's chief executive Michael Gossip said talks would now be arranged with representatives of Highland and Islands Enterprise , Strathclyde region and the Scottish Office , and councillors would go to Brussels if necessary . |
| 21 | The uncertainty brought about by further litigation in Australia would now be compounded by the fact that they no longer have any home there to which to return . |
| 22 | The false conceptions that facilitated those observations would now be replaced by the notions of attractive and repulsive forces acting at a distance , leading to quite different observation reports . |
| 23 | The railway station would now be seen as a significant strategic point to which Whites could withdraw to be rescued by train-borne troops and from which the forces could fan out into disaffected areas . |
| 24 | In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said . |
| 25 | We at Holy Cross were able to have a happy relationship with the Baptists at Judson College , and I was invited to give a regular course in the comparative study of religion , which I attempted to do in the way which would now be described as that of dialogue . |
| 26 | The two managed to solve a dispute between the two governments over the timing of the next Anglo-Irish intergovernmental conference , which , originally scheduled for late September , would now be held on Nov. 16 . |
| 27 | I am sure that if he had been with one of the stronger or more glamorous clubs at the time , his name would now be held in respect by a far wider clientele than those relatively few of us who were privileged to see him play his heart out for Crystal Palace . |
| 28 | A desperate last memo from the London office manager , Anne Diamond , promised that the Christmas party , which had degenerated into a drink in the wine bar opposite GLEB , would now be held in January . |
| 29 | King Hussein , who had issued a decree in July 1991 repealing most of the martial law regulations introduced after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war [ see p. 38359 ] , formally abolished all martial law provisions on April 1 ; all security offences , including espionage and treason , would now be dealt with by state security courts . |
| 30 | Again , this would now be dealt with before contracts are exchanged . |