Example sentences of "be now [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rough Trade , for instance , had to dip into the piggy bank to move into the American market , where they 're now said to be pulling out . |
| 2 | Golfwise , we learn the new reclaimed course was opened in August with the Standard 's comment ‘ tho' not as long as golf courses are now reckoned to be it affords an excellent test ’ . |
| 3 | In fact , these chapters are now reckoned to be among the foremost theological statements the Bible contains . |
| 4 | Around two thirds of promotional budgets are now reckoned to be spent on the less glitzy marketing activities such as direct marketing and sales promotion . |
| 5 | In the light of this passage we can interpret one of Wordsworth 's gnomic sayings — ‘ The Child is Father of the Man ’ — and can understand what the attractive childhood episodes are doing in Books i and ii ; they are now seen to be similar ‘ spots of time … enshrined … for future restoration ’ . |
| 6 | Although the details of their theory are now seen to be clearly wrong , their insight , that different parts of the brain are responsible for different processes , has stood the test of time and research and informs much of our current understanding of the brain . |
| 7 | The figures are Dataquest estimates of what a buyer actually pays after standard retail discounts , as opposed to list prices.Prices are now seen to be about 10% higher in Europe than in the US , against 25% a year ago . |
| 8 | In this case the developer would probably say to the local authority , I want this site and it 's all or nothing , which then puts the local authority in a dilemma and in the sense its allocated sites are now seen to be some form second status . |
| 9 | Let us hope that the Danes will vote ‘ No ’ in their referendum on June 2 , thus forcing all members to renegotiate the treaty , as many of them are now said to be having second thoughts of their own . |
| 10 | However , its founders , Larry and Doug Michels , are now said to be reluctant because the future is uncertain — it 's a heck of a time to have to start posting quarterly reports . |
| 11 | Other US nuclear plants are now said to be studying their fuel pool cooling . |
| 12 | Despite , or perhaps because of , these mishaps , estimates for Trident running costs are now revealed to be £5.7 billion over 30 years , on top of £10.5 billion construction costs . |
| 13 | Miasms are now recognized to be both inherited and acquired ; and often a specific remedy called a nosode , which is related to the infection in question , is required before a chronic condition can be entirely cleared up . |
| 14 | What were once thought of as " mere " political " forms " are now recognized to be of far greater potential and actual importance than an exclusive concentration on economic and social power might suggest . |
| 15 | Britain 's invisible earnings , which are made up of a surplus on things like insurance and banking offset by government contributions to the European Community and overseas aid , are now projected to be about £2,670million in 1989 , less than half the £6,100million total earned in 1988 . |
| 16 | Stocks are now believed to be below the level which would allow the predicted maximum yield of 175,000 tonnes per year . |
| 17 | Novae are now believed to be caused by gas spilling from one star to another in a close double-star system , but 30 years ago they were a complete mystery ; only two dozen had been spotted in time for astronomers to study them while they were still erupting . |
| 18 | Only 5 per cent are now believed to be in good condition . |
| 19 | ‘ The costs of absence are now shown to be much higher than had previously been thought , ’ said Robbie Gilbert , the CBI 's director of employment affairs . |
| 20 | These areas of hypersensitivity are now shown to be functionally important in vivo , as they mark regions which comprise a putative locus control region ( LCR ) . |
| 21 | For harmony 's sake , Mr Aichi 's sins are now deemed to be minor . |
| 22 | This is an important change in practice and unless denied , damages are now deemed to be admitted . |
| 23 | There are now estimated to be around 50 in the Moscow area , and 100 in the Russian federation as a whole . |
| 24 | There are now estimated to be about 760,000 minke whales in the Antarctic , up from less than 200,000 in the early 1970s , and some supporters of whaling argue that the increase in minke numbers is putting pressure on food stocks and hampering the recovery of more seriously endangered whale species . |
| 25 | However , for colliding plane waves , the boundary conditions are of a totally different character , and many of the solutions of Ernst 's equation that are appropriate for axisymmetric fields , such as the Tomimatsu-Sato solutions , are now found to be inconsistent with the boundary conditions for colliding plane waves . |
| 26 | British companies , which are now considered to be leaders in the value-added sector , come to the show to expose their products and learn about this dynamic market . |
| 27 | Thus the lack of fundamental ecological knowledge has played a significant role in the shaping of these forests and lack of foresight has led to the demise , by deliberate poisoning and girdling , of many species which are now considered to be commercially viable . |
| 28 | Such a border can be at least as ornamental as the conventional one , given the range of plants which are now considered to be herbs , and it is much more likely to be the haunt of bees and butterflies , as well as being more aromatic and fragrant . |
| 29 | Many of these buildings are now considered to be of special interest by current standards — particularly where they possess ‘ group value ’ — and are being added to the statutory lists as these are revised . |
| 30 | They are now thought to be the oldest planked boats built anywhere in the world outside Egypt . |