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

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1 Yes , things that we were told 20 years ago that were perfectly safe , it 's now being proved that they 're not safe .
2 ON A daily basis it 's now being suggested that the Duchess of York is in danger of losing custody of her two daughters .
3 It is now being recognised that it can be appropriate to use musical settings of the ‘ traditional ’ words in the ‘ new ’ services .
4 It is now being rebuilt and houses a small community of artists and craftsmen .
5 It is now being claimed that the ERP allows the objective monitoring of well specified mental activities .
6 In place of an unbridled power struggle in which almost anything was permissible and extreme instability in relations between states was the norm , it was now being asserted that the task of diplomacy was not to deceive or even perhaps to defeat an opponent , but rather to reconcile conflicting ambitions and help different states to coexist , at least for considerable periods , in a reasonable degree of amity .
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