Example sentences of "what [is] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the time he stayed in what 's now our hotel ; it was n't even part of the hotel but a private house . |
| 2 | Well I saw there by the what 's now , it was in them days , I 've seen a rowing boat mm in there in Street . |
| 3 | A package containing what 's now known to have been a bomb was discovered hidden under a shelf in the Reject Shop in Cornmarket= It was found after an extensive search by sniffer dogs and army bomb disposal experts . |
| 4 | It 's the first foot clinic of it 's kind in the country , dealing with what 's now called podiatry , formerly chiropody ; bunions , ingrowing toenails , sports injuries and the like . |
| 5 | A sculptor and a rock star have teamed up to honour hundreds of unskilled labourers who toiled in difficult , often dangerous conditions to build what 's now a busy commuter railway line . |
| 6 | From the chapel they 've taken the thing that we 're sorriest about , which is the cockfighting chair that Alexander Pope the poet used the two summers that he spent working here in what 's now called Pope 's Tower , translating the fifth volume of Homer 's Iliad . |
| 7 | I will turn finally to experiments on what is now called the ‘ child 's developing theory of mind ’ ( see Astington , Harris and Olson , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | This pattern had never been noticed before , but as soon as researchers started looking for it , several case studies of what is now known as phonological dyslexia were reported in rapid succession in the early 1980s . |
| 9 | Later , what is now known as National music was composed by such musicians as the Czechs Smetana and Dvorak , the Hungarian Liszt , the Norwegian Grieg , the Spanish Granados , Albeniz and De Falla , the Polish Chopin and , finally , the English Elgar and Vaughan-Williams . |
| 10 | Most of what is now visible internally is important historically but would be covered or damaged if the building were to be reconstructed as a modern pastiche within an original veneer . |
| 11 | Mr Trump , who has a penchant for naming his many buildings , hotels and casinos after himself , purchased what is now the Trump Shuttle from Eastern 's parent company , Texas Air Corp , in April for $365m . |
| 12 | ‘ Once you accept outside Palestinians , you validate the concept of their right of return to their former homes in what is now Israel , ’ a Likud source said . |
| 13 | The most favoured option is to pick a well-known name and either anthologise him or produce what is now grandly referred to as a biodrama . |
| 14 | One problem is that there do not seem to be many potentially blue-chip names in the pipeline , ready to join what is now a severely restricted group . |
| 15 | I was born in what is now Russia , and when I came to Scotland shortly before the war the small Jewish grocery shops in the Gorbals district of Glasgow were my main link with home . |
| 16 | In the mid-1980s , I was addicted for nearly a year to ‘ free-basing ’ cocaine , which is no different in any way from what is now called crack . |
| 17 | It is reinforced by the further recognition that what is now valid may well not be in the future , and that some people see earlier than others when changes in accepted opinions and values are needed . |
| 18 | However , so much of what is now being produced lacks these very qualities that it may be more useful to look at successful artists ' work to find an answer to this question . |
| 19 | before a final all-embracing italicized section , looking back in its typography , placing , and , most importantly , its rhythm , recalls the opening nursery rhyme chorus , but gives it a universal voice which seems to include all that we have heard before in what is now a ritual chant ending with an appropriately childlike sound , |
| 20 | Of these two pads , the first normally consists of the Prologue , or exposition scenes ; the Entrance of the Chorus ( Parodos ) : and what is now generally called the Agon , a fierce ‘ contest ’ between the representatives of two parties or principles , which are in effect the hero and villain of the whole piece . |
| 21 | For what is now at stake is not the acceptance of the artificial boundaries imposed by the colonial powers , but the distribution of opportunity within them . |
| 22 | ‘ For that to be possible , it would , of course , be essential for what is now East Germany to accept fully both the liberal democratic institutions of the Federal Republic and the rights and obligations involved in being part of a member state of the European Community . ’ |
| 23 | What is now home to the rare hen harrier , the short-eared owl and 170 species of birds , will shortly become the habitat of mechanical gorrillas , robot sharks and cheap imitations of nature as more than 70 per cent of the the 1200 acres are developed with prime riverside housing , studios and hotels . |
| 24 | THE ABILITY of small firms to continue the past decade 's rapid growth into the 1990s could suffer from increasing problems with what is now being called the ‘ people gap ’ . |
| 25 | A Hong Kong legislator interned with him , Mr H.K. Cheng , was able to help Mr Walker and a Canadian internee , Mr David Michell , to pinpoint the site , in the grounds of what is now Weifang Middle School . |
| 26 | In the last free elections in what is now East Germany , in 1946 , the SED , after its forced alliance with the SPD , won on average 45 per cent of the vote . |
| 27 | ‘ One has long made a habit of beheading his wife at intervals in what is now my study : the other , a lady named Madam Sharpe , drops rings and other small objects into a china basin in my dressing room … . |
| 28 | The search for better grazing prompted many of the great nomadic outpourings from Central Asia , and as recently as the early 1960s a civil war was fought in what is now Zaire over the control of Katanga 's copper mines . |
| 29 | Its headwaters began in the swamps south of what is now Orlando and flowed into Lake Okeechobee at the centre of the system . |
| 30 | So far he and his foreign minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , have stuck nobly to the view that Germany should remain a member of NATO , with some ( no doubt far fewer ) NATO troops staying on in what is now West Germany and with enough Soviet troops staying on in eastern Germany for a while to make the Russians feel better about it . |