Example sentences of "up to now [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | About half of these had been won from the moderate middle-class parties and were augmented by the vote of about 6 million new voters , half of whom were young people voting for the first time , and the other half of whom were people who up to now had been too weary , cynical or lacking in hope to vote at all . |
| 2 | Even at seventeen , which up to now had been the high point of her existence , the passions raised had not one tithe of the sizzling fire that had been generated by Benedict . |
| 3 | The DSD levies , which up to now have been based on the size of the package , are due to rise sharply in the autumn , and will be higher on the materials which have proved hardest to recycle , especially plastic . |
| 4 | Its tactics up to now have been to in direct sales and in bringing existing value-added resellers ( typically Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Data General Corp channels ) into the AS/400 market . |
| 5 | ‘ The City up to now has been anonymous , ’ Thompson says . |
| 6 | As many parents have discovered , the problem with disposable nappies up to now has been with that word ‘ disposable ’ . |
| 7 | The new Transaction System from Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,166 ) represents a major departure for the Newbury , Berkshire company that up to now has been famed for its Cobol products and development tools rather than for production system software — but the market for Unix transaction processing systems is still wide open because scarcely any have been sold as yet . |
| 8 | The system represents a major departure for the Newbury , Berkshire company that up to now has been famed for its Cobol products and development tools rather than for production system software — but the market for Unix transaction processing systems is still wide open because scarcely any have been sold as yet . |
| 9 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |
| 10 | This sort of transient simulation , which up to now has been a difficult and expensive exercise , brings an improved understanding of the behaviour of multiphase flow lines . |
| 11 | However , the independence that HMI has had up to now has been deeply embarrassing to the Government . |