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

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1 ‘ I 'm afraid someone 's now out there blackmailing these poor guys , ’ said Barrows .
2 Throughout Ireland as a whole , there has generally been an anti-comprehensive ethos in the education system supportive of both class and sectarian divisions in schooling and which is now eroding only in part .
3 PHILIPS ' Hotel Manager is a feature of the Sopho-Systemmanager , which is now offered in either a multi-terminal , UNIX version or single-terminal PC version .
4 In West Mercia , there have been regular reissues of Force Orders to remind members to be circumspect in their dissertations and essays prepared for part-time diplomas in Management Services or the NEBS qualification which is now an integral part of inspector training .
5 What is new is the much greater degree of sophistication which is now necessary to produce the maximum revenue yield from each and every InterCity journey .
6 On Junction Buttress , Malc Taylor put All my Pegs in one Basket and then left them in the obvious overhanging crack , which is now E7 6c .
7 We are on familiar ground , since this idealism is none other than his deeper — sometimes he called it deepest , sometimes highest — realism ; but with new implications in that he is beginning to show a sensitiveness to the actual which no doubt existed before but was rarely evident , a sensitiveness which is now coming out like a bruise .
8 At about the same time , 1926 to be exact , Walter Cocking produced what became known as Everyman Four receiver , originally called Everyman 's Four-valve , one of which is now in the Science Museum .
9 But there appears not to have been , for instance , any of that sterile rivalry between man and wife which is now the bane of middle-class society with any claims to cultural or intellectual interests ; plainly Mrs Lowndes and the young matrons who were her friends did not seethe resentfully at having their intellectual and imaginative capacities shackled to kitchen and nursery , whereas their husbands could exercise theirs in the great world .
10 The poor second half performance , however , masks the changes that have been made at Lincat , which is now placed to deliver more acceptable returns .
11 Sir George Robey 240 Seven Sisters Rd N4 ( 263 4581 ) Named after an old musical hero , located opposite the old Rainbow , the venerable old rock institution which is now home to a religious sect .
12 Peking was not interested , but in 1979 Lisbon formally renounced sovereignty over the enclave , which is now officially a ‘ Chinese territory under Portuguese administration ’ .
13 It argued in the early days that to be too closely allied with Catholicism would deter a broad membership , which is now drawn from among protestants , muslims , baptists , Jews — and , it emphasises proudly , atheists .
14 The Australians won their first VC of the campaign in a tank battle outside a village called Marjayoun in the south of the country which is now the headquarters of Israel 's proxy South Lebanon Army militia .
15 Under British pressure , the French eventually departed in humiliation , but only after presiding over a covenant that gave the Lebanese republic the system of power-sharing which is now disintegrating .
16 An ally is a nation which you beat fair and square in a war some time ago and which is now on your side .
17 She initiated training for matrons of residential homes , pressed for the chiropody service which is now available and urged that pensioners should have their own pocket money when they were in residential care .
18 Knighton is ready to offer the Manchester United boss a new deal on the 50.6 per cent shareholding which he sought to buy from Edwards for £10m , and which is now the subject of a damaging legal wrangle in the High Court .
19 The main ‘ mistakes ’ were : the Communist Party 's forcible suppression of opposition in 1948 to establish a political dictatorship in Hungary ; the Stalinist era 's ‘ unrealistic pace of military preparation , ill-conceived industrialisation and the forced collectivisation ’ ; Stalinist ‘ harassment of millions of people , the mass violation of rights and intimidation ’ ; the violent Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian revolt , which is now now officially defined as a popular uprising ; and the party 's inability from the mid-1970s to continue the decentralisation of economic reforms launched in 1968 .
20 The Fitzwilliam Museum bought the study , which is now on display , with help from the National Art Collections Fund , and a regional purchase grant from the Museums and Galleries Commission ( administered by the Victoria & Albert Museum ) .
21 The figures deepened City anxiety over the outlook for inflation which is now expected to end the year between 7.5 and 7.75 per cent and remain above 7 per cent for the first quarter of 1990 .
22 Roddick experienced her first taste of trading as a child while serving in the family café in Littlehampton in Sussex , which is now the centre of her worldwide retailing empire .
23 We can not confuse the kind of economic drip-feed which aid has become with its bold objectives as originally conceived ; self-sustaining growth is a mirage which is now more elusive than ever .
24 An expansion of production will also come from the use of land which is now sparsely populated .
25 Cricket , in fact , has negotiated a successful compromise with the world of broadcasting , enjoying extensive coverage , which is now used to gain lucrative ‘ low-key ’ sponsorship and advertising .
26 The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up .
27 Industry sources however suggest that the contract is extremely important to Telefunken , which is now part of the giant Daimler-Benz industrial combine .
28 But the problem can take different forms , one of which is now receiving political attention , while the other — the demographic shift — is probably neither fully recognised nor understood by small and medium enterprises .
29 The message of the need for more small business counselling , which is now being promoted , is aimed particularly at improving the performance of businesses in the 20-50 employee size range , which are seen to have problems .
30 It can , of course , reflect managerial or technical shortcomings , the ‘ people gap ’ which is now being targeted .
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