Example sentences of "[pron] are now a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these factors — and many , many more which are now a fact of our fast-paced , deadline-packed daily lives — are still helping to create symptoms of stress to the point where a single encounter with an apparently dyslexic British Telecom directory enquiries operator can all but tip us over the brink . |
| 2 | Lastly , the opponents of drainage schemes have long complained about the secrecy with which the Ministry of Agriculture and the water authorities have shrouded their calculations , together with their almost universal resistance to public inquiries , which are now a normal part of the process of consultation preceding road and reservoir schemes . |
| 3 | All teachers with designated responsibilities for pupils with special needs have the right to be considered for these one-term courses , which are now a national priority area for which central funding is available . |
| 4 | These include tribunals , which are now a formal part of the system of adjudication . |
| 5 | It enables candidates to use the media and campaign techniques which are now an essential part of the electoral process in America . |
| 6 | ‘ You are now a minister 's wife ’ , he enjoined her , ‘ and must now so far forget your father 's house as not to claim a precedence of any of your parishioners . ’ |
| 7 | You are now a vertical mile below the rim and the rocks have been dated to the immense age of 2000 million years . |
| 8 | You are now a ‘ man ’ or a ‘ woman ’ , rather than still being able to think of yourself as a child . |
| 9 | ’ — And yet we hear that you are now a Merkut also , ’ Artai observed tartly . |
| 10 | By the end of it all the mind-body problem will loom large — but this may be because we are now a little closer to it . |
| 11 | And we are now a quarter way through a four-year development plan ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ We are now a much more mature economy , ’ said the chief economist of a leading Singapore bank . |
| 13 | We are now a much more mature economy . |
| 14 | We are now a technological species , and until comparatively recently we paid little attention to species that were not . |
| 15 | We must prove to the world that not only have we grown rapidly , but that we are now a mature company and an industry leader . |
| 16 | I say metamorphosing because it is our firm intention to continue the natural development process which has been going on in recent years , rather than make any radical changes just because we are now a university . |
| 17 | We are now a species out of control . |
| 18 | We are now a highly successful and viable part of ICI chemicals & Polymers — and we will grow , that 's for sure . ’ |
| 19 | There are now a number of stretching devices on the market . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Techniques have changed to some extent in that there are now a number of excellent buoyant legers on the market which allow anchored floaters to be used to more effect . |
| 22 | Many strains of Bacillus thuringiensis , for example , are insect pathogens because they produce insecticidal chemicals and , as Payne ( 1988 ) has discussed , there are now a number of commercially available strains which are used to control a variety of insects . |
| 23 | There are now a number of Baptist churches among the gypsies also . |
| 24 | Fortunately , there are now a number of assessment instruments designed to utilise spontaneous speech samples , and some of these suggest coding utterances direct from a tape without the need for transcription . |
| 25 | There are now a number of books and articles on Portage — the National Foundation for Educational Research ( NFER ) publishes Portage books and materials . |
| 26 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
| 27 | There are now a number of types of specially protected areas including national parks , Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) , nature reserves , Heritage Coasts , green belts , Areas of Great Landscape Value , country parks , forest parks , and Sites of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 28 | There are now a number of other women artists groups here in Berlin and in Germany . |
| 29 | For the widest selection , it is better to apply to a specialist herb nursery , of which there are now a good many . |
| 30 | However , the conflict between modern farming practice and environmental conservation is by no means an irreconcilable one and , although entrenched positions have been taken up on both sides , there are now a few signs of a more sophisticated awareness of the Problems involved and a more constructive desire on the part of both farming organizations and the environmental lobby to overcome them . |