Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] it [is] now [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The ancient Dwarf hold of Karak Ungor has become so infested with Night Goblins that it is now known as Red Eye Mountain .
2 There are still traces of hut circles attributed to an Iron Age occupation and , at the time of the Roman invasion , the local patriots , the Brigantes , established a hill fort to resist the foreign legions ; an ancient rampart wall , built around the perimeter of the summit and almost half a mile in circumference , has survived the centuries although it is now crumbled and has many gaps .
3 The decision is likely to postpone a hearing on the charges for many months and it is now thought that the case could eventually be heard in Milan instead of Turin .
4 Does he also agree that there has been a noticeable change of opinion in the business community , in that in 1990 it thought that we could go into the exchange rate mechanism without any disadvantage whereas it is now beginning to realise that the ERM obliges us to have a higher exchange rate and higher real interest rates than are appropriate for domestic needs ?
5 However , constraints of time and the intellectual range of those who have the teaching of criminal law in charge counsel pessimism , and unless and until the four-year degree is established legal education in general will suffer through the narrowing effect of criminal law as it is now taught .
6 ( It was a driver and it 's now mounted in Lyle Towers because after that he could n't hit a fairway with it ! )
7 ‘ He is still the right man for the job , ’ said Kelly and it is now understood the issue will not even be on the agenda when the Football Association holds its annual meeting at Bournemouth on June 26 , a week after the conclusion of the ill-fated US Cup tour .
8 It 's a shame that it 's now become part of a genre rather than the opening salvo it might have been , since Juice now has an air of predictability about it .
9 The position of Gaelic has deteriorated dramatically in the intervening forty years and it is now argued convincingly that a local language is itself a development tool .
10 It is a good sign that it is now circling round nations and nationalism .
11 Well it 's not , it 's not a bad hedge and it 's now starting to get you know
12 And again that 's the er er platforms as it is now looking towards .
13 It was the 15th bone he had broken in his career and it is now held together by two bolts and an 18-inch steel pin .
14 The standard condition ( Condition 4 ) deals with time limits for the raising of requisitions and it is now becoming increasingly common practice to mix in requisitions with any additional enquiries under the vague heading of " Observations " .
15 Some of our members have lost their consolidated rate and it 's now become a bit of a running sore on the pay negotiations from last year , it needs to be sorted out , if confidence is to remain in last year 's pay , pay deal .
16 Hyenas have always been thought of as scavengers but it is now known that they are also vigorous nocturnal hunters .
17 He 's speaking of this time now and this age when it is now harvest time .
18 More than 40 years later , on a drizzly Friday morning in October , I seek out the rue Didouche Mourad as it is now called .
19 His appearance at the Scottish Professional Championship at Dalmahoy from 20 to 23 May will be his first on the Tartan Tour as it is now constituted , though he played in the Northern Open at Nairn in 1964 .
20 After the Oxford Parliament , according to Lord Worcester , Charles promised to " stick to that that is law , and maintain the Church as it is now established
21 The CAP has reached such absurd proportions that it is now damaging everybody 's interests — the producers , the consumers and the Third World .
22 When I joined the company it was capitalised at about £4m and it is now capitalised at about £1.4bn .
23 Motif is slower than Windows but Bristol 's marketing vice president , Jean Blackwell , says there is no degradation and the software experiences a performance gain because it is now running on a Unix box .
24 On another occasion , having been introduced to a pop personality at a cocktail party , his name — it was then not as celebrated outside his own world as it is now had left me within five seconds .
25 Subsequent investigations have led to some revisions of Gilbert 's original findings and it is now thought by some researchers that the laccoliths radiate from central discordant intrusions known as stocks ( Fig. 5.17 ) .
26 It was the first work on which he collaborated-and collaborated happily-with Nicholas Georgiadis but it is now given in the heavy scarlet , black and gold designs which Georgiadis substituted in 1980 .
27 So that would make erm er five one six five as a married man 's or a married couple 's allowance as it 's now called , plus the three four four five .
28 The last big family to live name of was the original er well the last big family and it 's now owned by er er Barbara Cartland 's brother , chap named John
29 Specialeyes marketing director Steve Jacobs says the company has always been perceived as being at the cheap end of the market and it is now trying to raise its image with its professional market and consumers .
30 The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece .
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