Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [be] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Coleman , managing directors of Compass Commercial Services , agreed that the MoD was a significant marketplace , although most of the contracts were now being let on a retender basis and a new insecurity in what was already a high risk business had recently presented itself — the application to the public sector of Transfer of Undertakings legislation , when incoming contractors are obliged to retain staff at current rates of pay , terms and conditions , or pick up the redundancy liability . |
| 2 | Another way in which the icons are now easier to understand is because you can now include separators in the SmartIcon palette in order to group icons together . |
| 3 | The programmes are now registered as providing learning support for NVQs at level 3 ( the Certificate ) and level 4 ( the Diploma ) which means that any students paying their own fees should not be required to pay the 25 per centincome tax component on either the HCIMA assessment fees or the college fees . |
| 4 | The institutions are now prepared to lend larger multiples of income , and higher proportions of the purchase price . |
| 5 | The suits are now double-breasted and more sleek , the ties more sophisticated , the hair more stylish and the fashionable loafers are a definite improvement on the old lace-ups . |
| 6 | The flames were now strong enough to reach the two bags of gunpowder tied to the man 's neck . |
| 7 | The flames were now extinguished , windows had been opened in the top gallery and the smoke was beginning to dissipate . |
| 8 | The problem is exacerbated by the fact that many of the mines are now within built-up areas . |
| 9 | According to West Africa , diamond smuggling into Liberia from Sierra Leone had been estimated to yield about US$100 million annually , even before the conflict , and the mines were now a prime rebel objective . |
| 10 | Some of the old skill is perpetuated on the island as a cottage industry but the patterns are now used and often machine-knitted by mainland manufacturers . |
| 11 | Surviving into 1992 against the odds , The Shamen are now releasing records that are going right over people 's heads . |
| 12 | The only differences which Clare would notice are that machines have replaced axes , and that the moles are now gibbeted on barbed-wire fencing . |
| 13 | Something clearly had to be done , and done quickly , for the ramparts were now diminishing at a steady rate the longer the rain lasted , the more quickly the ramparts melted . |
| 14 | The assertion that the courts are now in the business of adjudicating on the complex issue of sex is not a happy development towards this goal . |
| 15 | The Germans were now faced with an insoluble strategic problem , perceived but not resolved by von Schlieffen : they had insufficient strength to wheel west of Paris and subdue it . |
| 16 | The lunatics are now running the asylum . ’ |
| 17 | The Leeders are now drawing up a petition which will be presented to the Bishop of Chelmsford next month . |
| 18 | The birds are now quite common throughout plantations . |
| 19 | The foundations were now securely laid for a long period of prosperity rising to a peak in the early fourth century , if one can judge from the mansion-type houses in the towns and countryside . |
| 20 | The health-care task force , which is due to deliver its report to the president any day now , has outdone all previous committees on every imaginable measure : size ( it had 500 full-time members and innumerable hangers-on ) , complexity ( it was divided into 15 ‘ cluster groups ’ and 34 working groups ) , rigour ( the heads of the working-groups are now having their work reassessed by ‘ auditors ’ and ‘ contrarians ’ ) ; and , not least , ambition . |
| 21 | ( West Witton is another village where many of the houses are now second homes only for people outside the area . ) |
| 22 | The houses are now occupied by black TCL employees who have no option of better housing . |
| 23 | About half the houses were now finished , the turfs laid , the flower beds cut , looking like fresh graves — all in the front , of course . |
| 24 | Since the scales are now balanced in favour of women , why are there still so few senior executive level females in major UK companies ? |
| 25 | The curds are now quite hard and at this stage resemble a chunky cottage cheese crossed with the homemade cheese or paneer as used in Indian cookery . |
| 26 | The proposals are now part of civil law , and every year , the packaging industry will set out its plans and achievements for the previous year . |
| 27 | The Russians are now developing three new space launchers . |
| 28 | American and Britain are partly responsible for the way the Russians are now cos we finance most of their industry in the second World War |
| 29 | The strata are now much folded and appear on the surface as a series of concentric circles . |
| 30 | With the Punks , of course , this jumble-sale of fashion would arrive at a self-consciously surreal conclusion in that the scraps were now held together , literally and very visibly , with safety-pins . |