Example sentences of "but [ex0] are now " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first three months of 1990 , the guess is that they were again about 13% lower than in the first quarter of 1989 , but there are now hopes that it was the last drop for a while . |
| 2 | Lifting and pouring cumbersome oil barrels can be an irksome task , but there are now several options to make the job easier . |
| 3 | ‘ Well fashion is still faring better than advertising in the current page squeeze , but there are now less editorial pages to correspond with the fewer advertising pages being sold in magazines ’ . |
| 4 | After the severe winter of 1946–7 there were only eight cows and five bulls in the herd , but there are now perhaps 50 animals altogether and they are owned and protected by the Chillingham Wild Cattle Association , a registered charity which bought the herd on the death of the eighth Earl in 1972 . |
| 5 | The first development was only founded in the mid 1970s , but there are now well over twenty in England , with another seven or eight in Scotland and two or three in Wales . |
| 6 | But there are now clear allegations that Prince Charles has had a loving friendship with Camilla , a married woman , for many years . |
| 7 | But there are now many places where the wooded , steep-sided landscape gives us a reminder of past beauty — and some fine walking . |
| 8 | But there are now stirrings for more openness and increasing awareness that secrecy is a problem , even from the Medicines Control Agency . |
| 9 | In Ireland , credit unions have been in existence for a decade longer than in Britain , but there are now over 450 unions , with a membership exceeding three-quarters of a million . |
| 10 | The argument from numbers continues to have some appeal in the criminal law but there are now few situations in which there may be an indictment for conspiracy in respect of acts which would not be criminal if done by one person . |
| 11 | A few borings indicating greater thicknesses might be explained away as going diagonally through detritus on the outer flank of the reef , but there are now too many for one to conclude that the results can be explained in this way . |
| 12 | The grounds for doubt are very varied but there are now several cases of chimpanzees , and at least one gorilla , who have first been taught to communicate with their human mentors in an apparently rational way by means of stereotyped signs invented by their teachers and have then gone on to use these signs grammatically , generating novel sentences as if the signs formed a genuine human language . |
| 13 | When Newham had finished trying to destroy that school , it had about 300 pupils , but there are now almost double that number . |
| 14 | In 1979 , 580 veterinary officers were employed by the service , but there are now only 337 . |
| 15 | There were 9.5 million old age pensioners in 1979 , but there are now some 10.5 million . |
| 16 | But there are now other large sources of potential assistance . |
| 17 | But there are now synthetic fibres on the market which are specially designed to be light yet very warm . |
| 18 | But there are now several recognised cooking methods that not only maintain the standards of traditional cooking , but improve on them . |