Example sentences of "that there are now " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Standardisation has reached such a level that there are now only five main types of AC unit , the pre-1960 Southern Region-inspired slam-door units ( Classes 302–8 ) , express ( Class 309 ) , modern slam-door ( Classes 310/312 ) , Scotland/Manchester suburban sliding door ( Classes 303/31 1 ) , inner suburban sliding door ( Classes 313–315 ) , and modern outer-suburban based on the Mark 3 coach bodyshell ( Classes 317–21 ) .
2 The reason for this is that there are now two ways of getting your council 's blessing to proceed with the work you have in mind .
3 The present owner of the rectory told me that one thing people notice when they go round the garden is that there are now no garage doors .
4 The Finnish breed has become so popular in the USSR that there are now about a million there .
5 Problems of collective management are such that there are now only four such CABx remaining , all in the London area .
6 Techniques have changed to some extent in that there are now a number of excellent buoyant legers on the market which allow anchored floaters to be used to more effect .
7 You can buy T- shirts with the shop 's name printed on them , however , with the result that there are now hundreds of teenage girls walking around Tokyo with the word ‘ milk ’ blazoned across their breasts .
8 That there are now 40-odd rugby development officers in Australia when there were two or three to capitalise on the 1984 Grand Slam tour is tremendous ’ .
9 A recent survey by Proshare-Mori reveals that there are now 9.26m shareholders in Britain .
10 However , the evidence on this has been vigorously contested , especially by Maureen Stone , who argues that ‘ no body of research has ever demonstrated unequivocally that the children of the working-class as a whole , poor children or black children in particular , suffer from poor self-image or self-esteem ’ ( Stone , 1981 , p. 8 ) , while Milner concludes that there are now higher measures on tests of black self-esteem than in earlier studies because of the rise of black political movements in both the USA and Britain which has fostered positive black self-images and consciousness ( Milner , 1983 ) .
11 Step-families have always existed but the increasing rate of divorce and remarriage mean that there are now more of them and that more are formed following parental divorce than parental death .
12 And there we were thinking that it passed the 2m mark at the end of last year : IMB Corp says that on the first anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 , it has shipped more than 2m copies , has more than 80 agreements with hardware vendors to package OS/2 on their systems , and that there are now 1,200 applications specifically written for it .
13 IBM Corp claims that there are now more than 1,100 applications specifically developed for OS/2 2.0 , a figure that it says exceeds its own expectations .
14 I do n't know , maybe the time was better for making music than it is now , there was less touring , not this hysterical feeling that everyone needs to jump from one place to another , or the lure of too many good orchestras — maybe it 's true that there are now more good orchestras than good conductors .
15 The CDHES estimates that there are now more than 500.000 displaced persons who have moved to areas away from the conflict zones and some 1 million ( 20% of the entire population ) living outside the country .
16 Without going into the details of modelling procedure , it is easy to see that there are now two sources of inefficiency rather than one .
17 In the same way that there are now few modem savoury recipes that do not have herbs in them , and that more and more people are trying herbal remedies for aches and pains , so the uses to which herbs can be put for cosmetic and domestic purposes are being more widely explored .
18 One significant advance in the last ten years is that there are now specialist forensic psychiatry services in most Health Service Regions , and most Regions have constructed special Regional Secure Units ( RSUs ) where mentally disturbed offenders can be assessed .
19 Around Britain it is estimated that there are now 180,000 single people without a permanent home who live in temporary shelters , hostels or on the streets .
20 Their export adviser confirmed that there are now indications of growth in the Turkish economy , with a balance of payments in surplus for the firs time in several years .
21 Karate has made great strides in the fields of sport and entertainment in recent years , so that there are now semi- and full-contact karate sports as well as kickboxing .
22 This showed that there are now just over 600 centres offering National Certificate modules and , of these , 31 are so-called ‘ private ’ centres .
23 Bob Hawke 's Australian Labor Party has guided the economy for the last three years , but the latest issue of Economic Record show that there are now over 30,000 millionaires in the country , with one tenth of the population owning 60 per cent of all wealth while two million live below the poverty line .
24 The Ministry of Information estimates that there are now more than 200 video centres in Accra alone .
25 Is the Minister aware that there are now thousands of people waiting for home improvement grants , some of whom applied before 1984 ?
26 That is reflected in the fact that there are now about 100,000 more orthopaedic operations than there were in 1979 .
27 I remind the House that 33 kidney transplants per week are now completed , compared with 16 per week in 1979 , and that there are now six heart transplants and seven liver transplants every week — a total transplant programme of 46 operations every week of the year .
28 I am pleased to say that there are now signs — after the improvement in recent years and with further improvements — that British Coal will be able to secure good contracts for the future .
29 Is not the difficulty in which you are placed the fact that there are now only four Government Back-Bench Members representing Scotland , and 63 of different parties on the Opposition side of the House ?
30 The UN tells us that there are now 17.5 million officially registered refugees — there are probably many more who are not registered — with an extra 2 million refugees in the past two years .
  Next page