Example sentences of "[conj] [is] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seats were simple and uncomfortable , the noise intolerable , but it still shaped a disastrous decade of short-term economy stock building that is now being regretted . |
| 2 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 3 | It will be interesting to see whether , in the future , the generation that is now being raised on comparatively low salt diets will consider the York ham to be as special as those who now remember it so fondly . |
| 4 | European eyes are fixed on the first of these figures : public spending that is now shooting through the ceiling set in the EC 's self-denying ordinance of 1988 . |
| 5 | When South Africa 's President F.W. de Klerk was a lad , his people treated the territory that is now Namibia as a fifth province of their own country . |
| 6 | In awe of Zantac , an anti-ulcer treatment that is now the world 's best-selling drug , our participants awarded Glaxo top-three places for innovation , product quality and marketing . |
| 7 | In other words , we are seeing the same film , but it is the negative that is now being presented to us . |
| 8 | The man behind Shoom — a club that is now so legendary that if all the people who claim to have been there in its formative months really had attended , it would have been held in Wembley Stadium not in a sweaty south-east London basement — he resolutely refused to cash in on the boom that became known as acid . |
| 9 | He can not see why cash which has earned him monthly interest running into five figures should be squandered for the sake of a perceived way of life that is now beset by escalating economic and political pressure . |
| 10 | Well , she said it was n't quite ready for inspection , but I have seen some work that is in progress that is now very much in her own style : some night forest scenes that are very striking , one very calm , two very anguished . |
| 11 | She was born Erika Scharfstein on June 27 1910 , into a prosperous Jewish family in Gura Humora , a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is now Romania . |
| 12 | Beyond the bridge at Shafford Mill , with its redundant depth gauge , is a dam for a trout pool that is now an empty bowl . |
| 13 | It is stress causing hostility and aggression that is now thought to contribute to cholesterol deposits in arteries . ’ |
| 14 | Fossil plants are of great use in plotting the many shifts of climate that happened during the Tertiary : a humid-tropical flora may be found in what is now an arid region , or a warm-climate flora may be found in an area that is now decidedly cool . |
| 15 | One partial solution , of the kind that is now almost universally adopted by serious conservationists , is to construct a mathematical , or computer ‘ model ’ . |
| 16 | We know , too , that in the Devonian period , up to 410 million years ago , there were vast reefs off the west coast of Australia that were made by animals of a class that is now extinct , and were quite different from today 's corals . |
| 17 | This is both an interesting and picturesque site , and one that is now well cared for by people who fortunately appreciate its significance . |
| 18 | The area that is now Zambia attracted the attention of British colonisers because of its mineral wealth . |
| 19 | Irena drove me to the station , past the monastery that is now a military hospital , along the main road north where tanks rumble across at night . |
| 20 | Scott ( 1987 ) , for example , has examined the impact of more frequent clearance that is now being practised by the Campa Indians in the Gran Pajonal area of central Peru , where primary and secondary forest is interspersed with savanna and grassland . |
| 21 | ISPRA , the EEC 's main nuclear research establishment , is now certain to be a ‘ favoured competitor ’ in an orgy of bidding for some £300 million worth of EEC-funded research into fusion technology that is now getting under way . |
| 22 | These results give us some reason to hope that experiments on the extrapolation towards reactor conditions — on the Joint European Torus that is now being completed at Culham , for example — will prove favourable . |
| 23 | They constitute a field of choice for the development of democracy , because the ‘ energy mutation ’ that is now occurring can be accomplished only with the consent and help of all . |
| 24 | Indeed , our understanding of the technique that is now used so widely and with such serious consequences seems to have made disquietingly little progress since the 1770s , when Franz Anton Mesmer first took Paris by storm with his new , bizarre technique . |
| 25 | The Britons originated in the northern parts of England but had settled in the area that is now Ayrshire and Renfrewshire . |
| 26 | The Scots caught up with the Britons on land that is now part of Coilsfield Mains farm . |
| 27 | Firstly of course , many sincere viewpoints are held and vigorously presented , perhaps reflecting a morality that is now unfashionable or less prevalent ; these viewpoints are always with us and it is proper that they should be so , and that they are seriously and sympathetically heard . |
| 28 | Chocoholics will love The Chocolate Book by Sara Perry , an American cookbook that is now published in the UK . |
| 29 | It has been so rewarding for me to read about the happiness and freedom from the prison of obesity that is now enjoyed by so many . |
| 30 | So is there anyone out there that has a similar machine that is now ‘ surplus to requirements that I could cannibalise for parts ? |