Example sentences of "but it [is] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excellent use is made of the text of Tom Jones , but it is now less detectable that this is a writer who has done his stint of teaching English literature at university level . |
| 2 | Much determination and hard work have gone into that attempt , but it is now seen to have failed . |
| 3 | The second of these aspects has emerged only relatively recently in the published literature on the postwar Labour government , but it is now a commonplace , certainly among Imperial and colonial historians . |
| 4 | It was the first work on which he collaborated-and collaborated happily-with Nicholas Georgiadis but it is now given in the heavy scarlet , black and gold designs which Georgiadis substituted in 1980 . |
| 5 | But it is now to be cut . |
| 6 | It is thought that rice was first cultivated in India and Indo-China , but it is now grown extensively throughout the Far East . |
| 7 | Mozzarella was originally made from buffalos ' milk but it is now a cows ' milk cheese . |
| 8 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
| 9 | There is still uncertainty about the origins of the Lombards — frequently called the Longobards — but it is now generally agreed that they were central European , and probably arrived over the Alps from Hungary . |
| 10 | This may be an effect of the uncertainty around television 's textuality ; but it is now an extremely limiting effect for the development of theory . |
| 11 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 12 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 13 | It is sometimes still bred as a dual-purpose animal , giving milk as well as meat , and in that capacity is often used as a suckler , but it is now essentially a beef breed . |
| 14 | But it is now a very long time since I was there . ’ |
| 15 | ( Some 15 other states where the Moral Majority are by no means the silent majority , had hoped to pass similar laws , but it is now assumed that the case will go to appeal and eventually reach the Supreme Court ) . |
| 16 | Britain , of course , lagged behind the States , but it is now beginning to surface . |
| 17 | No. 28 was formerly the wheel turning shop , but it is now used mainly for automatic machines . |
| 18 | The technology was used to keep basic transport running in Europe during the 1940s , but it is now being redeveloped in distinct ways by the Philippines and Brazil . |
| 19 | Some pessimists have calculated that enormous exercise workouts would be needed in order to achieve even modest weight loss , but it is now recognized that exercise does effectively help to burn up calories by speeding up the body 's metabolic rate for some time afterwards . |
| 20 | Hyenas have always been thought of as scavengers but it is now known that they are also vigorous nocturnal hunters . |
| 21 | The details of the legend 's growth are obscure , but it is now known that it was developing steadily in northern Spain and southern France in the centuries between the eighth and the eleventh . |
| 22 | But it is now possible to find a kennel or cattery , using the Recommended Kennel and Cattery Guide , which lists the country 's top boarding establishments , supported by comments from satisfied customers . |
| 23 | A computer fault put the line out of action temporarily , but it is now up and running again . |
| 24 | The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece . |
| 25 | The suit could still go against Advanced Micro , but it is now free from the injunction barring it from shipping 80486 and later generation chips that include Intel proprietary microcode — although Intel is free to seek a new injunction prior to the retrial . |
| 26 | Moreover , Emerald is late — originally the company said that it would be launched in the first quarter , but it is now expected sometime this summer . |
| 27 | Troubled Telecom Eireann has abandoned a plan to build a new headquarters in Ballsbridge , Dublin , and the decision may cost the company more than £6m ; it bought the site for £9.4m in 1990 , but it is now worth only around £5m ; the company may also be required to pay for a government investigation into the purchase , which is also under scrutiny from the Fraud Office . |
| 28 | The suit could still go against Advanced Micro , but it is now free from the injunction barring it from shipping 80486 and later generation chips that include Intel proprietary microcode — although Intel is free to seek a new injunction prior to the retrial . |
| 29 | But it is now in financial trouble . |
| 30 | ‘ Ramapithecus ’ was once considered to be a human ancestor , but it is now viewed as a synonym of Sivapithecus . |