Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] now [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Community should by now be used to such snubs . |
| 2 | We should by now be familiar with the general formula for decomposing data : Data = Fit + Residual The process of smoothing time series also produces such a decomposition of the data except that we mainly use the alternative , more suggestive form of words . |
| 3 | It should by now be apparent that this recording is obligatory to all Handelians . |
| 4 | The scene , which should by now be exuding sentimentality like syrup , somehow does no such thing . |
| 5 | This , as should by now be clear , is a crucial distinction in this argument , for it underpins ( along with the public/private distinction utilised by Wolfenden ) many of the conflicts and disagreements over morality and the ‘ proper ’ role of the criminal law during this post-war period . |
| 6 | John Maddox , the editor of Nature , wrote in 1982 : ‘ The OED is uniquely a data base … , which will suggest to many that it should by now be stored on a long reel of magnetic tape , floppy disks , or some other means of data storage . |
| 7 | It should by now be clear to the reader that the purchase decision may turn out to be a highly complex one , subject to a wide variety of inter-related economic and behavioural influences . |
| 8 | It should by now be clear that the language behaviour of young black Londoners of Caribbean background can only be described with reference to patterns of code-switching , between the two perceived varieties " ordinary English " ( which in practice means London English ) and " Patois " , which I have argued is a variety of Jamaican Creole . |
| 9 | The problems with such an approach should by now be apparent . |
| 10 | Since students should by now be comparatively well-informed about basic segmental phonetics , it is very important that their production and recognition of this vowel should be good before moving on to the following chapters . |
| 11 | It should by now be clear that there is a great deal of difference between the way words are pronounced in isolation and in the context of connected speech . |
| 12 | Even if Dáil members had thought otherwise , it must by now be clear that the ethos of the Irish Republic was still one in which it was impolitic to be in conflict with the church . |
| 13 | He claimed at the Tory Conference , in a phrase that he must by now be sick of hearing thrown back at him , that he would intervene before breakfast , lunch and dinner . |
| 14 | Manescu estimated they must by now be three levels below the surface of the earth . |
| 15 | MANY shareholders in ICI 's spin-off company Zeneca must by now be tempted to walk away from the 600p a share rights issue . |
| 16 | He could not see Dhani but calculated that he might by now be opposite him in the north transept . |
| 17 | The trouble was , of course , it might by now be in the hands of some high-spirited Islamic youth movement . |
| 18 | Quite likely there would be those who travelled to the Continent in the hope of establishing family links though most of the original strangers ' would by now be dead . |
| 19 | Poor little Sophie would by now be suffering pangs of guilt for her behaviour towards me . |
| 20 | The truth is that without the assistance and support of local education authorities in helping schools manage the many drastic , rushed and ill conceived changes forced upon them by the Tory Government during the past 13 years , the education service would by now be in total disarray . |
| 21 | Aesthetes among the novices will by now be thoroughly irritable and complaining that gardens should have as much to do with the soul as with the necessity or not of a washing line or a barbecue pit . |
| 22 | The inference to be drawn from all this will by now be plain enough . |
| 23 | As will by now be apparent to the reader , recent discussions on the advancement of public sector accounting continue to stress economic measurement . |
| 24 | The reader may by now be feeling bored . |
| 25 | There the truth may by now be known . |