Example sentences of "it [is] now [verb] that " in BNC.

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31 This is convenient because it is now recognised that they are such an important aspect of the transaction ; and pension under-funding or , in recent times more likely , over-funding , can involve such large amounts of money that the arrangements will generally be negotiated separately from the rest of the agreement by specialist pension lawyers from the parties ' solicitors and the parties ' respective actuaries .
32 It was for many years claimed to be the earliest example of the true arch in Europe , but it is now recognised that it was constructed in the sixth century as an open drain and that it was only roofed over with its present stone vault of three concentric rings of radiating voussoirs in 184 B.C. Its exit into the Tiber can still be seen in Rome near the Ponte Rotto ( 68 ) .
33 The migrating larval stages in large numbers may cause a transient pneumonia , but it is now recognised that many cases of so-called " Ascaris pneumonia " may be attributable to other infections , or to piglet anaemia .
34 Far dimmer and simpler than ours , but they certainly exist , and it is now recognised that they can and do suffer from stress .
35 It is now recognized that the trachoma agent is very closely related to the organism that causes non-specific urethritis and is responsible for 50 per cent of sticky eyes in newborn babies and for a proportion of cases of salpingitis in women .
36 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 .
37 However , it is now recognized that research on such prediction falls down in terms of both its reliability and its validity .
38 However , it is now recognized that progress in this direction requires a great deal more cooperation in other fields , such as monetary and budgetary policy , than was originally acknowledged .
39 It is now recognized that people who have been on weight-reducing diets subsequently have a lower calorie requirement than they previously had .
40 It is now recognized that many seriously disabled patients can not be resettled into open employment but their need for real work can be met , none the less , by providing a special working environment where good job performance and long-term achievements are rewarded .
41 It is now recognized that a ‘ multi-agency ’ approach in which the NHS , local authority and voluntary agencies cooperate is more successful at reaching potential service-users .
42 Although there is much to support this view of the origin of our modern idea of time , it is now realized that it can only be adhered to with some reservations , as we shall see .
43 While good standards of physical care , hygiene , nutrition and so forth are clearly vital , it is now realized that the most important need is for the child to receive personal attention and genuine affection .
44 It is now hoped that the full peacekeeping force will be in place by the end of the month .
45 It is now reckoned that 80 per cent of laws enacted by Congress emanate from the executive — if one were to weight these laws in terms of importance , almost certainly that proportion would be higher .
46 It is now understood that in the process land settlement women often lose property rights , access to income , freedom of movement and social support .
47 But it is now argued that the increased radiation would be no more than the existent difference between the poles and the equator .
48 ( 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 ) .
49 If it is now assumed that the coefficients on and in the unemployment equation are different , so that we are not assuming structural neutrality , we can rewrite the unemployment equation as :
50 It is now assumed that the objective of policy is to maximise economic welfare , where economic welfare is equated with total surplus .
51 In the past thirty years , astrophysicists have discovered dust clouds , radio signals , X-rays , electric and magnetic fields in supposedly empty space , and it is now realised that there is as much energy/matter between the stars as there is contained in them and in all the planets as well .
52 It is now realised that by giving an artist the right kind of support , a dealer can increase their visibility enormously .
53 It is now realised that a million words is insufficient to produce an adequate model of a language since many of the phenomena of the language are so rare that they will be absent from such a corpus .
54 It is now realised that lesser landowners , or gentry , played a crucial role in all aspects of medieval English history from at least the mid-thirteenth century .
55 It is now believed that babies can be sensitized to food even before they are born , because a few food molecules , from food the mother eats , can reach the baby in her womb ( see p 246 ) .
56 This is why to account for their longevity it is now believed that they were a qualified kind of ectothermic homeotherm continually striving to become endothermic homeotherms .
57 It is now believed that the peculiar properties of water are due to what is known as hydrogen bonding .
58 It is now believed that they may have been written for a subscription concert series in 1788 — the ‘ Casino ’ series mentioned in a letter to Puchberg , which may have taken place in the autumn .
59 It is now believed that the graves are those of early Spanish Christians , placed in proximity to the mausoleum of some established holy man .
60 It is now believed that such names were used for monastic communities modelled on genuine desert prototypes in Egypt .
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