Example sentences of "[noun] be now " in BNC.

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1 The institutions are now prepared to lend larger multiples of income , and higher proportions of the purchase price .
2 It should also be noted that many universities offer extra-mural courses which have no fixed entrance requirements , that the Open University is open entry in terms of prior qualifications , and that many institutions are now developing ‘ access ’ courses which provide non-standard routes of entry to first degrees .
3 Again , however , one wonders how far this was mere rhetoric in the original or mere gesture in the repetition ; although it may have some influence on the ‘ mission statements ’ that some institutions are now struggling to formulate .
4 All institutions are now known as ‘ authorized institutions ’ , and the use of the word ‘ bank ’ was restricted to those institutions which had a paid-up capital of at least f5m , but in all other respects the 1981 classification remained .
5 About 600 institutions are now included in the ‘ UK Banking Sector ’ .
6 It is , perhaps , ironic that those who hid away and escaped expulsion and quietly re-established themselves in their homelands are now the most prosperous redskins around .
7 Items like wretch and grenadier are now variable .
8 Hard-won working conditions and employment protection are now routinely jettisoned by many cowboy operators , secure in the knowledge that if workers complain they can be shown the door , outside which is a four-deep queue of would-be replacements willing to thole all manner of demands provided there is the prospect of regular work at whatever depressed rates .
9 ‘ Did you know that in New York a significant number of burglaries are now perpetrated by women ? ’
10 The full-year loan and grant are now over 30 per cent .
11 The problem is exacerbated by the fact that many of the mines are now within built-up areas .
12 More and more transactions between customer and retailer are now done by telephone .
13 At Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire the remarkable follies are now vested in the Fitzwilliam Amenity Trust which has restored the spectacular mausoleum built by John Carr and opened it to the public .
14 The lunatics are now running the asylum . ’
15 Notes are now in desk . ’
16 ‘ Our debts are now manageable , ’ Boyes said .
17 Their debts are now more than £6.5m and chairman Sir John Hall says he needs at least a week to draw up another rescue package before he and his fellow directors will be in a position to open talks with Kevin Keegan about the vacant manager 's position .
18 All Tesco own brand aerosols are now CFC-free , as are most brands .
19 Many aerosols are now atmosphere friendly , but refrigerators are still using damaging chemicals .
20 Until now , there was little we could do about this , but complaints have been taken seriously and discussions are now under way between OFTEL , the Office of Telecommunications , and the British Direct Marketing Association ( BDMA , representing companies who use telesales ) .
21 DEC/Fujitsu discussions are now rumoured as ‘ over ’ — Fujitsu is not dumping Sparc , but would have loved to go to Alpha instead — two to three years ago .
22 Several of those who shared those discussions are now big names in the art market .
23 The objects are now in a safe , awaiting their reinstallation in the Nancy museum .
24 GUARANTEED BUT NO HURRY TO BUY If you think interest rates and inflation are going to fall , guaranteed income bonds could be a handy source of income ; but returns are now lower than before the election
25 In its election of the supreme council members the party renounced monolithic leadership unity , Lilov commenting later that " different political tendencies are now well formed and all are reflected in the leading bodies " .
26 Shipments are now even more frequent .
27 Many of these prisoners are now free .
28 If you can liken works of art to the prisoners in Fidelio , such precious prisoners are now emerging into a Romanian sunlight after years of political imprisonment in attics , cellars or under floorboards .
29 Prisoners are now sent to prison as a punishment , not for punishment .
30 So far as enterprises are concerned , their accounts are now in such a state of confusion that most of them no longer care about increases in their costs .
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