Example sentences of "[noun sg] is now [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law is now settled that either intention or recklessness as to the respective conduct elements is sufficient . |
| 2 | The Guild is now advocating that further steps should be taken , namely , that women should be made eligible for seats on town councils . |
| 3 | Boxtree is now claiming that Mr Bean 's Diary has sold so well ( over 314,000 copies when I last spoke to them ) because it is being bought by , and given to , children and teenagers . |
| 4 | The protein products encoded by many of these genes have been characterised — some in considerable detail — and the evidence is now compelling that their abnormal expression is related to the development of human cancer . |
| 5 | Evidence is now emerging that women have been detained in order to be raped and even impregnated , and that political and military leaders knew , but condoned it.One woman who can testify to the existence of rape camps and the suffering of women , is Francoise Hampson , senior lecturer at Essex University and an expert in the law of armed conflict . |
| 6 | Indeed , the huge TV screen set up for the occasion is now predicting that the Tories will be shy of an overall majority by a mere eight seats : John Major will surely be back at Number 10 . |
| 7 | The play centres on the severe cultural disturbance generated by the fact that Clara , a girl , has been brought up as a boy and wants to remain one , while her brother , Lucio , has been brought up as a girl which he wants to remain , despite the fact that society is now demanding that both return to their normal gender ascriptions . |
| 8 | The Greek government is now recommending that the filters be fitted to all the city 's buses , with a view to cutting exhaust pollutants by half in the busier areas . |
| 9 | But the government is now proposing that all schemes , including small ones , should not be allowed to invest more than 5 per cent of their money in their employer 's businesss . |
| 10 | The Government is now proposing that they shall er er that they shall be erm made from a list of persons compiled in accordance with an Order by the Secretary of State and it appears to be being claimed , at least in the press that this somehow is providing for appointments to be at arms length from the Home Secretary . |
| 11 | ‘ The UK Government is now saying that by 1995 all bathing waters will comply with the EC bathing water directives . |
| 12 | The Chief Officer said quite clearly last er last time that the decisions were decisions for members and members came up with a view last time that we should not remove that whole time crew from St Albans which was the one firm decision that was made at the last meeting and what Councillor is now suggesting that we should take out those twenty eight whole time fire fighters and then try and give us ten back if we 're lucky . |
| 13 | The hospital is now insisting that hi-tec scans will be available in all urgent cases . |
| 14 | The district which was due to take over the funding is now claiming that some of the people who are now living in the special units attached to old people 's homes are not their responsibility They did not originally come from their districts and so they are refusing to pay some of the finance over . |