Example sentences of "[ex0] be now " in BNC.
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| 1 | His poetry — there are now 50 books of it , no less — comes in all shapes and sizes , all colours and sounds , except the muted . |
| 2 | There are now two occluders , A and B , side-by-side before the infant . |
| 3 | The development of a Tennis Teachers Course offers help to the non-coach teacher , and the inauguration of County Schools Tennis Associations ( there are now 39 ) has enabled locally based courses to be set up . |
| 4 | There are now a number of stretching devices on the market . |
| 5 | To give more power to the carver 's elbow there are now a wide range of electric carving systems , and here we test a selection of machines and tools that may offer more than a saving in time |
| 6 | Standardisation has reached such a level that there are now only five main types of AC unit , the pre-1960 Southern Region-inspired slam-door units ( Classes 302–8 ) , express ( Class 309 ) , modern slam-door ( Classes 310/312 ) , Scotland/Manchester suburban sliding door ( Classes 303/31 1 ) , inner suburban sliding door ( Classes 313–315 ) , and modern outer-suburban based on the Mark 3 coach bodyshell ( Classes 317–21 ) . |
| 7 | In recent years the situation has become confused , because there are now exterior wood stains available , which differ from a true dye or stain , as they leave a coloured film on the surface of the wood and do not require another finish to be applied over them . |
| 8 | Build quality seemed good and there are now enough agents in this country to make servicing and spares less of a worry . |
| 9 | The reason for this is that there are now two ways of getting your council 's blessing to proceed with the work you have in mind . |
| 10 | There are now no ‘ fundamental contradictions in human life that can not be resolved in the context of modern liberalism ’ . |
| 11 | There are now 18.5 million cars on Britain 's roads , and by the year 2000 there will be 25 to 28 million . |
| 12 | There are now manufacturers world-wide pursuing variations on this approach , building everything from high-powered graphics work stations for computer-aided design and advertising , like soon-to-merge American firms Ardent and Stellar , through to Teradata , another American company which has sold several hundred of its parallel database machines , to Britain 's Meiko Scientific , manufacturer of the Computing Surface . |
| 13 | There are now worries in the City that the plunge in sterling could flare up into a full-blown crisis and , in the last resort , force the Government to raise interest rates even higher . |
| 14 | There are now obvious signs that we are here to stay . |
| 15 | The first Challenger trimaran ( three hulls ) was produced in 1978 and there are now more than 120 in use throughout the UK . |
| 16 | There are now other routes to follow . |
| 17 | There are now several elements of this sequence which are clearly unacceptable . |
| 18 | ‘ February is only a short month , so it is not going to have a devastating effect on figures , and there are now signs that the recession is bottoming out , which has to be good for the industry , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 19 | And there are now enough successful examples of sympathetically restored buildings to convince owners that restoration is feasible . |
| 20 | There are now more than 500 English vineyards , with the northernmost near Leeds where the temperature reached 94°F last August . |
| 21 | There are now over forty Compacts in operation , which are succeeding — as much as anything by involving parents in the deal . |
| 22 | There are now 242 shops , 31 more than at the start of the year . |
| 23 | There are now at least half a dozen Akali factions , both moderate and militant . |
| 24 | There are now at least half a dozen Akali factions , both moderate and militant . |
| 25 | Mr Siddique estimates there are now some 200 groups and last week he wrote to Mrs Thatcher warning her that ‘ Bradford may turn into Beirut ’ . |
| 26 | There are now 25 De Vere hotels , after deals to buy the University Arms in Cambridge and the Grand in St Helier , Jersey . |
| 27 | Members of the board then went to the organisation headquarters to reassure the staff — there are now 35 working on the project — that the Games would go ahead . |
| 28 | There are now fears that unless he is persuaded to surrender with guarantees of safe conduct , Gen Noriega could organise a prolonged resistance , and seek assistance from Nicaragua and Cuba . |
| 29 | And I have stayed ever since because when I joined Roadwatch it was at a time when they were developing from just 15 information stations throughout the country — there are now almost 100 . |
| 30 | The present owner of the rectory told me that one thing people notice when they go round the garden is that there are now no garage doors . |