Example sentences of "what be now the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fossil evidence reveals that these giants occupied the woodlands and mountain forests of southern China until the ice ages drove them south into what are now the islands of Sumatra and Borneo . |
| 2 | Treasury [ 1979 ] 1 W.L.R. 1056 , but it seems to me that the court regarded the powers as being capable of legitimate exercise after charge , but only if ( a ) the questions put were limited to those permitted by what are now the concluding words of what is now paragraph 16.5 of Code C , and ( b ) they were preceded by a caution . |
| 3 | Mr Trump , who has a penchant for naming his many buildings , hotels and casinos after himself , purchased what is now the Trump Shuttle from Eastern 's parent company , Texas Air Corp , in April for $365m . |
| 4 | In Aachen , Charles built not only a formal palace , but a huge basilica , some of which was incorporated into what is now the present cathedral . |
| 5 | And again this proves to be the case : our example is found in Arctic Canada , in the high Arctic island of Spitsbergen , thousands of miles away in what is now the desert country of Nevada and Utah in the United States , in western Ireland , in Russia , and in northwestern Australia . |
| 6 | ( See the earliest drawing ) , was unsatisfactory , so in September 1908 a trial tee was constructed somewhere near what is now the ladies ' winter tee on the 16th , the 17th green being more or less as we know today , although at this time a twin green with the first . |
| 7 | The former 11th tee box , on what is now the 10th fairway , was sufficiently far back from the road for the majority of golfers to carry the road with their second ( or third ! ) shots , although some doughty souls had a go for the green from the tee using the existing oak tree as being to the left of the ideal line ; ( 3 ) reconstructing the 13th afresh and ( 4 ) taking back the 14th tee box considerably as now . |
| 8 | Near the site , perhaps under what is now the Palazzo Arcivescovile , was the city 's first Bishop 's Palace , called the Domus , from which the name Duomo derives . |
| 9 | The others were situated on the Charles Bridge , at what is now the Italian Embassy and at the Wallenstein Palace . |
| 10 | Opposite the clock , angels and bishops stare moodily down from the Holy Trinity Column in what is now the middle of Red Army Square . |
| 11 | A village church may seem an unlikely scene of industrial development , but the church of St Michael-in-the-Hamlet , in what is now the Liverpool suburb of Toxteth , is of considerable interest . |
| 12 | Telford 's warehouses were mostly destroyed by fire in 1970 , but Porters Row survives as an example of his workers ' houses , and locks on what is now the Shropshire Union Canal descend the hillside to link it with the ship canal . |
| 13 | What is now the ‘ over-sixties ’ rest room' used to be the Mining Men 's Reading Room . |
| 14 | Certainly one of the ancient routes from Ireland and Wales to the continent of Europe crossed Cornwall and followed more or less what is now the B3269 road which passes the Iron Age fort of Castle Dore , for many years associated with the tragic love story of Tristan and Iseult . |
| 15 | In 1920 , Howarth moved to what is now the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and then , in 1925 , to the University of Birmingham , where he spent the remainder of his career . |
| 16 | The crypt of what is now the House of Commons has been the venue of many historical events . |
| 17 | About 125 million years ago the foundation for what is now the state 's central valley arrived . |
| 18 | The attraction of this option is that it would neatly sidestep what is now the main stumbling block to the road , American public opinion . |
| 19 | Twenty thousand years ago , at the end of the Pleistocene , the melting of North America 's last great ice sheet engorged what is now the Susquehanna River , which then enlarged the Chesapeake Valley . |
| 20 | The first meeting of what is now the oldest body of archers in the United Kingdom was held at Scorton on the 14th May 1673 . |
| 21 | By the start of the First World War , many of the older members of what is now the British Commonwealth of Nations were well on the way to de facto independence of the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | Sir Nicholas Pelham lived in what is now the White Hart , the Gorings of Danny built ‘ Pelham ’ House in 1579 ; even now it hides one of the finest Elizabethan panelled rooms in the county . |
| 23 | The kibbutz craze hit a peak in the late 1970s and early 1980s before travellers embarked on what is now the latest adventure — working holidays in Australia . |
| 24 | This area of pumiceous tuffs is only a small part of a much larger blanket of Pliocene ignimbrites covering more than 20 000 square kilometres , which originated from a catastrophic eruptive phase in the central sections of what is now the Kenya rift . |
| 25 | You may need to fill or plane off a slot at the thick or what is now the top edge . |
| 26 | He took me down to London and I went and did an audition and I first appeared at what is now the Shaftesbury Theatre at the top of Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 27 | King George III ( 1760–1820 ) collected what is now the King 's Library in the British Library , and Queen Mary herself had a library of nearly five thousand volumes by the end of her life . |
| 28 | So what is now the status of his later insistence that , ‘ Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil ’ ( 512 ) ? |
| 29 | The Bedford Area Committee , in addition to its responsibility for the administration of relief , had the job of visiting , inspecting , and managing what is now the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 30 | What is more , it is in the pleasant position of operating in what is now the fourth most important UK application software market after word processing , spreadsheets and graphics . |