Example sentences of "[coord] it is now " in BNC.
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| 1 | 13 1775 & that Body is vastly improv 'd the longer it is kept & the little remains of fat shine a little more thro' & it is now very much the colour of Indian Copper , i.e. it is very near the colour of finished work 'd mahogany & is really a beautiful mass , the Legs are now perfectly dry and from the Beginning to the end there is nothing of putrefaction . |
| 2 | Obviously , it does not suddenly become safe to steepen the climb at a certain height , and it is now recognised that the angle should be progressively steepened . |
| 3 | None of these posts has been filled , and it is now short of 27 professionals out of a complement of 119 — with little immediate prospect of filling the vacancies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The time has passed quickly and it is now getting dusk , the mosquitoes have arrived and the German mortaring of the orchard has started , the first salvo exploding a short distance away causing pieces of earth to fall from the logs covering the roof of the trench , the earth and other bits of debris falling onto the now empty mess-tins . |
| 6 | The action has lasted most of the day and it is now early evening but still light as we have a short sharp skirmish with the enemy rearguard . |
| 7 | However , the publishing business has recently become more competitive and it is now possible for songwriters to restrict the length of the assignment of copyright to what is known as a ‘ retention period ’ . |
| 8 | When I joined the company it was capitalised at about £4m and it is now capitalised at about £1.4bn . |
| 9 | And it is now equally clear that Mrs Thatcher 's response to this ultimatum was similarly direct . |
| 10 | Then gradually twitches of life manifested themselves and it is now as well as can be expected . |
| 11 | ‘ And it is now Thursday . |
| 12 | It would be impossible to persuade anyone to act as trustee unless the discretion entrusted to him were very liberally conferred , and it is now possible for a trustee to delegate to an agent , not merely pieces of business requiring especial skill , but the whole business of the trust , and escape liability so long as he acts in good faith . |
| 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 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 . |
| 15 | Later that same year both Sandoz and Geigy acquired a financial interest in CAC and it is now wholly owned by Ciba-Geigy . |
| 16 | The palace came to the Thuns of Hohenstein in 1768 and it is now the Italian Embassy . |
| 17 | The Gestapo took over the Lichtenstein Palace during the war and it is now being refurbished for the federal government . |
| 18 | And it is now recognised that the great mountain chains are always found on the side of the continental plate facing the direction of its drift . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , by the Telecommunications Act 1984 , section 2 was extended to BT employees ( that is to say , private sector employees ) and it is now an offence under the Official Secrets Act 1989 for Crown servants ( which could be extended to cover BT employees engaged in this work ) to disclose various types of information relating to telephone-tapping . |
| 20 | Although the excavations are not yet wholly complete , many hectares of the town have now been revealed to the light of day , and it is now possible to stroll along the abandoned streets once more with the remains of shops , houses and villas on either side . |
| 21 | It is a thrifty , hardy breed which matures very rapidly and has become much heavier in recent decades ( average weight of bulls about 1,200kg ) , and it is now one of France 's two major beef breeds with well-muscled hindquarters and an excellent ratio of lean meat to bone . |
| 22 | Using this method conflicting findings have been reported in studies of diabetic subjects ( Dollery et al , 1979 ; Davis et al , 1981 ) , and it is now generally accepted that there may be considerable non-specific interference in assaying this metabolite in plasma which might explain the different findings ( Greaves & Preston , 1982 ; Dollery et al , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | Finally , biotechnology has played a significant role in improving productivity via traditional plant and animal breeding programmes and in controlling environmental quality via waste-water treatment , and it is now beginning to feature prominently in mineral extraction . |
| 24 | The grosser absurdities of the consultative document have disappeared , and it is now apparent that the cross-curricular elements ( those aspects of learning that will not slot into the conventional ‘ subject ’ boxes yet are still too important to be left to chance ) are going ( somehow ) to be retained . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Early on , however , the forerunner of the modern House of Lords emerged from the Council around the monarch and it is now over seven centuries since commoners of England ( albeit of no more lowly status than the county squirearchy ) were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 27 | It then reverted to the church , not without some controversy , and it is now known as the church rooms . |
| 28 | Later the college became a school , and it is now used for the embryo of a university for the island . |
| 29 | In the past thirty years , astrophysicists have discovered dust clouds , radio signals , X-rays , electric and magnetic fields in supposedly empty space , and it is now realised that there is as much energy/matter between the stars as there is contained in them and in all the planets as well . |
| 30 | These acts violate the ICC Code of Conduct and it is now for the referee to take action . ’ |