Example sentences of "of what [is] now " in BNC.

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1 This pattern had never been noticed before , but as soon as researchers started looking for it , several case studies of what is now known as phonological dyslexia were reported in rapid succession in the early 1980s .
2 Most of what is now visible internally is important historically but would be covered or damaged if the building were to be reconstructed as a modern pastiche within an original veneer .
3 However , so much of what is now being produced lacks these very qualities that it may be more useful to look at successful artists ' work to find an answer to this question .
4 A Hong Kong legislator interned with him , Mr H.K. Cheng , was able to help Mr Walker and a Canadian internee , Mr David Michell , to pinpoint the site , in the grounds of what is now Weifang Middle School .
5 Its headwaters began in the swamps south of what is now Orlando and flowed into Lake Okeechobee at the centre of the system .
6 According to records , there existed in 1378 , a hamlet called ‘ Stronde ’ along the Middlesex bank of the River Thames , just east of Brentford , which indicates the existence then of what is now called Strand-on-the-Green .
7 The statue of the Virgin at the centre of the building is a work of the Maestro Campionesi , a group of sculptors and architects working out of what is now an enclave of Italy entrenched in Switzerland , Campione d'Italia .
8 Some machinery but not the wheel still survives , in the cellar of what is now Malvern House .
9 It was demolished soon afterwards in the redevelopment of what is now known as the South Bank .
10 A reply was then received from Mr Quarry but the proposed ground rent of £15 a year was considered too high and another effort was made to get from the Baroness von Steiglitz some ground at the corner of what is now Carrickblacker Avenue and in the same field where the existing Tabernacle stood .
11 Following the 1974 NHS reorganisation , we had the introduction of what is now referred to as the departmental system of budgeting ( as in level 2 in Fig. 3.2 ) .
12 The crypt of what is now the House of Commons has been the venue of many historical events .
13 Water is due to be impounded in April 1984 and the reservoir will spread over 3500 hectares of what is now a semi-urban area .
14 This small selection of articles only covers a fraction of what is now a large field , but it does point the way towards more effective reconstruction of tissues and organs .
15 Even in the realm of symbolism Charles did not provide the only precedent : Otto 's father , Henry I , had apparently bought the famous Holy Lance for the cost of a substantial part of what is now Switzerland ; and the Holy Lance was viewed as a talisman which would help a king to victory and as a token to be possessed by any candidate to the empire .
16 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 .
17 The present tenants of what is now known as John Dakyn House , renovated and restored and comprising six modern flats , have like the original tenants to have been born or lived in the parish for ten years , be of retirement age or invalids .
18 Ninety-five million years ago , sea covered most of what is now Europe and , for thirty million years , while the earth experienced great calm , the microscopic calcareous material secreted by unicellular planktonic algae built up a lime-mud on the sea-floor .
19 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 .
20 This is a developing area of the law , since there are other cases in the pipeline awaiting the EAT 's decision on the effect of what is now s 146 of the 1992 Act .
21 The last , and possibly the most beneficial , development is the introduction of what is now called ‘ centralised ’ training .
22 INVESTMENT trusts were born in 1868 with the formation of what is now Foreign & Colonial .
23 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 .
24 A complete review of what is now a vast , varied — and sometimes idiosyncratic — literature would take us well beyond our available space and our aim here will be to summarise the main approaches to the topic , in order to try to disentangle some arguments in the debate and draw some general conclusions from it .
25 Once again the Italian School is represented by the largest number , fifty-one ; there are no additional Spanish drawings ; the British School has increased by two , the Flemish by eight , the Dutch by twenty-three , the French by twenty-nine , but the surprise is the rapid expansion of what is now called the Central European School , comprising German , Swiss and Prague Schools , of which there are twenty-nine compared with the fifteen published in the first volume .
26 The first line begins with the man who has justly been termed ‘ the father of modern theology ’ , Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher ( 1768–1834 ) , who was Professor of Theology in Berlin from 1809 ; and leads on to Albrecht Ritschl ( 1822–89 ) , Professor in Göttingen from 1864 , and those who under his influence formed the school of what is now generally known as Liberal Theology .
27 His alternatives are predictably bleak : ‘ Much of what is now sheep country could profitably be reforested with nut-trees ’ ( 1977 : 60 ) .
28 Much of what is now recognised as social work did not exist 30 or 40 years ago , and what did — child care work , work with mentally ill people and some other matters — was practised on a much smaller scale , away from the glare of the media .
29 The independent states which will be created as a result of Russia 's disintegration will be able to strengthen the economic cohesion of what is now an awkward conglomerate of disparate regions .
30 XVT , which first surfaced back in 1989 , is probably the most mature of what is now a growing bunch of tools offering a single developers toolkit for multiple graphical user interfaces — competitors include Neuron Data 's Open Interface and Open Inc 's Aspect .
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