Example sentences of "be now [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plus they 're now lighter and more easily absorbed . |
| 2 | I am now nineteen and until I was seventeen I was ignorant as any babe . |
| 3 | I am now sixteen and like most sixteen year old girls I enjoy shopping for clothes and shoes . |
| 4 | He was injured playing for England in the friendly against Finland before the European Championship but insisted : ‘ I am now injury-free but not 100 per cent fit yet . |
| 5 | The transport companies which have been denationalized are now successful and are trading profitably . |
| 6 | ‘ You are now thirteen and a half … ’ |
| 7 | Repairs to Clock Tower at Polesden Lacey , near Dorking , are now complete and visitors can see the house free of scaffolding , revealing a new copper dome . |
| 8 | The Association is experiencing an increase in welfare casework , particularly from those who served in the Air Force during the Second World War , and who are now elderly and in need of our support . |
| 9 | Extensive floods are now uncommon and short-lived , occurring only in times of heavy and prolonged rain . |
| 10 | Moreover , the anti-war lobbies are now substantial and enjoy an entirely respectable status . |
| 11 | Moreover , the anti-war lobbies are now substantial and enjoy an entirely respectable status . |
| 12 | Psychologists speculate that much of the current dissatisfaction with the economy is caused by the presence of previously unattainable consumer products like VCRs , which are now available but still too expensive for most Poles . |
| 13 | 1993 dates for Pam Turbett 's Cut and Sew workshops are now available and as these courses are always very popular , make sure to book your place early . |
| 14 | A number of general.purpose Stepping motor controllers often in the form of MSI integrated circuits are now available and provide various levels of control Sophistication ( Sigma Instruments , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | Improved mechanical lithotripters that are often effective and reasonably cheap are now available and may reduce the temptation to cut too far when attempting removal of large stones . |
| 16 | Loosely grouped under the name Pentstemon gloxiniodes an increasing number of varieties are now available and are well worth looking out for . |
| 17 | Scholarships , Grants and Awards brochures and application forms are now available and have been widely circulated to all Sections and those who have requested them . |
| 18 | erm the best candidate for that kind of deposit are deep see cores — I mean there 's a continuous rain of stuff falling from the surface of the sea to the bottom of the sea and forming a great sort of ooze on the bottom and gradually compacting down into rock — cores of this stuff are now available and palaeontologists can look and see what happens . |
| 19 | The fireside and the kitchen were a unified symbol in the nineteenth century working-class home , " they are now separate and distinct . |
| 20 | We are all familiar with the use of computerised mailing lists by advertisers ; they , too , are now international and going into orbit via satellite transmission — in the remorseless pursuit of markets and lower unit costs . |
| 21 | Nine million ( 16 per cent ) of France 's 57 million inhabitants are now first or second generation ‘ immigrants . ’ |
| 22 | While field men still enjoy much the same degree of contact with their immediate superiors ( the area supervisors ) , senior staff are now distant and unseen . |
| 23 | Reda have introduced a new QA process at their Singapore manufacturing base for BP whereby every component is individually checked and numbered during assembly of the ESPs which are now well and vibration tested before shipment to the UK . |
| 24 | Despite the difficulties there are now eight or nine themes that define the programme of the physics committee of the science and Engineering Research Council . |
| 25 | Her two daughters are now eight and nine years old . |
| 26 | 5.1 Although the jobs for staff at this level are now multifunctional and therefore more complex management have refused to move on the current gradings . |
| 27 | They have been encouraged to purchase houses with high mortgages , and they are now desperate and worried . |
| 28 | In Lesotho , a project to set up small plantations for fuelwood failed to consult local villagers , and the plantations are now underused and uneconomic . |
| 29 | Prison officers are now salaried and take time off in lieu rather than accumulate high earnings on overtime ; they can purchase their own houses , and they can be promoted to governor grades rather than remaining a secondary uniformed branch . |
| 30 | The new headquarters of the local daily newspaper and its sister , the Western Evening Herald , are now shipshape and fully operational . |