Example sentences of "could now be " in BNC.
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| 1 | No — their secrets were first revealed to curious scientific men , to apothecaries and simples-collectors , to people who could now be called botanists , and such was Evan Roberts . |
| 2 | As the whistle went I thought it could now be a bit close . |
| 3 | It would be helpful if matching promises could now be made by Washington , London and Paris , that they will exercise their residual responsibilities only in the direction requested by the German people , and by Bonn , that the German right of self-determination will be exercised only in consultation with the three Western Allies . |
| 4 | All attention could now be given to negotiation and to preparing for war rather than continuing the sterile debate on how it had all come about . |
| 5 | With the building boom brought on by suburbanization , land for a chapel could now be bought in prominent locations : the days of buildings tucked into a court of back lane had passed . |
| 6 | The same theory could now be applied to American golfers in their quest to win the Blue Ribband of American golf , the Masters . |
| 7 | Barbara Stocking , author of the King 's Fund report The Future Shape of Acute Services , points out that pumps which deliver measured doses of cancer therapy , antibiotics , drugs for pain relief and clotting factors for haemophilia could now be used at home . |
| 8 | This decreased in England from 7,100 in 1969 to 3,900 in 1977 , and could now be down to 2,500 . |
| 9 | I should have screamed at the start — whenever the start could now be said to be . |
| 10 | The ‘ Points ’ system had indeed triumphed , only it was IQ points that could now be accumulated . |
| 11 | While propagandists of drainage , such as Dugdale , admired the corn and the oil-seed rape which could now be sown on the drained land , they failed to appreciate that the people of Axholme already grew sufficient corn for their needs on the higher land . |
| 12 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 13 | Treatment was terminated and the general practitioner advised that the hypnotic could now be stopped . |
| 14 | For the first time the problem of synthesising diamonds could now be expressed in terms of the ways the atoms were arranged and rearranged ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 15 | Are there diversionary problems which could now be attacked ? |
| 16 | A profound depression set in at the same time , despite the fact that she knew her bowel symptoms could now be controlled quite easily . |
| 17 | On 7 April 1906 it was announced that current could now be obtained from the Beckenham Power Station and that guard wires as required by the Post Office had now been fixed near Penge entrance to the Crystal Palace . |
| 18 | Although facilities were still very restricted , the station could now be heard throughout the territory . |
| 19 | Few believed that war could now be prevented , and hardly anyone understood that the real issue in Moscow was not whether Britain and Russia could prevent war by agreeing on a joint policy of resistance , but whether Stalin could be persuaded not to make a separate peace with Hitler . |
| 20 | The train could now be heard coming up the bank . |
| 21 | He was guilty of blasphemy and could now be taken to the Roman Governor with the recommendation that he suffer the death penalty . |
| 22 | WHAT a tragedy that the life and career of Flake model Rachel Brown could now be ruined because of the dreadful drug Ecstasy . |
| 23 | TWO level crossings earmarked to receive automatic barriers could now be fitted with safer gates monitored on closed circuit television . |
| 24 | The start of the London Underground-BR Crossrail scheme , scheduled originally for 1995 , could now be put back following the decision to involve the private sector.Likely to take five years to complete , the scheme would run from Reading and Aylesbury in the west across London to Shenfield in Essex in the east . |
| 25 | And the latest rejection was the final straw for Dave , who claims he could now be homeless once he gives up his farm next May . |
| 26 | Manager Trevor Francis could now be without half a dozen senior players for Coventry 's visit tomorrow . |
| 27 | The 30-year-old forward could now be banned for three months under the ‘ doubling-up ’ system for getting sent off twice in two years . |
| 28 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 29 | While the procedure was to some extent artificial and led to conclusions that did not always stand up to later study , it did at least mean that the different forms of early Christian teaching could now be admitted for discussion , and the possibility of real conflict between opposing views recognised as a natural and proper element in the development . |
| 30 | Beck claimed that a stage had been reached where more cash could now be devoted to physical rather than intellectual aid and indicated that funding for the computerisation of Hungarian institutions would increase in priority . |