Example sentences of "now [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be a mounting series of difficulties , only here the difficulties are not major confrontations but small incidents such as a foot caught in a briar root or a gate that has always been open now proving to be locked . |
| 2 | But modern culture is now proving to be vulnerable on two counts , one social , one intellectual . |
| 3 | The original cause of disaffiliation , ILP control over its parliamentary group , was now proving to be disruptive to the Party . |
| 4 | 'Twill be well because he is not the real thing , never could be , and is not even now presuming to be ; but conversely , 'twill be well because the imitation , the travesty , of the real thing can also usurp it and to all intents and purposes become it . |
| 5 | Given the dire state of the rouble , computer sales in Russia now tend to be mostly to those pockets of the economy still generating hard currency . |
| 6 | Its ‘ norms ’ now tend to be based on methodology . |
| 7 | Monitors now tend to be more expensive and restrict you to video playback only . |
| 8 | Family commitments now tend to be dwarfed by pressures of work , often long into the ‘ twilight shift . ’ |
| 9 | The brain , now realised to be a ‘ processor ’ of information rather than a ‘ computer ’ , is also recognised as being a gland allied with the endocrine system . |
| 10 | Miasms are now recognized to be both inherited and acquired ; and often a specific remedy called a nosode , which is related to the infection in question , is required before a chronic condition can be entirely cleared up . |
| 11 | What were once thought of as " mere " political " forms " are now recognized to be of far greater potential and actual importance than an exclusive concentration on economic and social power might suggest . |
| 12 | The separation of polymer/solvent systems into two phases as the temperature increases is now recognized to be a characteristic feature of all polymer solutions . |
| 13 | Hoare said last night it now expected to be trimming its full year forecast back from the £30m pencilled in so far . |
| 14 | It is evident that in many of our residential areas no such balance any longer exists , for the street has been given over entirely to the car , with other functions now expected to be subordinate to it . |
| 15 | On construction costs , plant performance and construction time the focus for estimates is now intended to be on the most likely outcome rather than , as before , on a highly optimistic , ‘ target ’ . |
| 16 | These chemicals are , by general definition , detergents although the term has now come to be restricted to a group of synthetic chemicals which have very specific effects the result of which is that dirt is taken into suspension in a stable form that allows it to be rinsed away . |
| 17 | And that is precisely all we have of what has now come to be known as Fermat 's Last Theorem . |
| 18 | In the absence of any details it is difficult to assess the force of these references to biology and sociology … . ( 1 ) What , if any , were the false biological views in question ? ( 2 ) How did it follow from them that women could not be ordained to the priesthood ? ( 3 ) What are the views which have taken their place ? … . ( 7 ) Have the views about women which have now come to be held proved to be true ? |
| 19 | The necessity for submission to greatness had now come to be placed in stark opposition to a scholarly pluralism . |
| 20 | For instance , drama/theatre studies has now come to be seen as a mixture of improvisation , responding to a set text and the evaluation of both pupil 's own work as well as performances they may have seen . |
| 21 | Debt , or the ability to attain it , has now come to be associated with power . |
| 22 | It is in fact directed against the protesters ' own parents — especially the father — and is intended to take the place of the infantile and adolescent reproaches and criticisms of the parental authority which have now come to be directed at each and any cultural equivalent of the father . |
| 23 | In fact to " has now come to be a mere empty grammatical appendix to the infinitive " ( 1940 : 154 ) . |
| 24 | It sounds as though the continuous procedure has now come to be , really very short . |
| 25 | Hall and Davidoff have studied Victorian domestic ideology ; they have shown the importance of that ideology to an understanding of what we might now consider to be a " natural " division between public and private spheres based on a supposedly " natural " division between the sexes . |
| 26 | For harmony 's sake , Mr Aichi 's sins are now deemed to be minor . |
| 27 | This is an important change in practice and unless denied , damages are now deemed to be admitted . |
| 28 | Dr Pentreath said there would now need to be two registers , each containing data derived from two organisations thus confusing the public and independent groups and undermining public confidence . |
| 29 | The qualities that have stood it in such good stead will now need to be applied in a different context . |
| 30 | However , the issues here will now need to be considered by governing bodies as well as advisory staff . |