Example sentences of "up to now has been " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The City up to now has been anonymous , ’ Thompson says .
2 As many parents have discovered , the problem with disposable nappies up to now has been with that word ‘ disposable ’ .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 However , the independence that HMI has had up to now has been deeply embarrassing to the Government .
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