Example sentences of "now [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But modern culture is now proving to be vulnerable on two counts , one social , one intellectual . |
| 2 | The original cause of disaffiliation , ILP control over its parliamentary group , was now proving to be disruptive to the Party . |
| 3 | It is evident that in many of our residential areas no such balance any longer exists , for the street has been given over entirely to the car , with other functions now expected to be subordinate to it . |
| 4 | For harmony 's sake , Mr Aichi 's sins are now deemed to be minor . |
| 5 | The Corridor through which Poland had access to the sea ran almost exactly through Pomerelia and the area occupied by the Kaszubes — who were now considered to be Polish . |
| 6 | Yet the statement is now considered to be false . |
| 7 | Although the validity of this method has been confirmed by comparison with other methods , it is now considered to be conventional and artificial . |
| 8 | Other releases through the Sub Pop empire ( all of which now appear to be subject to the same scheduling difficulties ) include THEE HEADCOATS ' LP , ‘ Heavens To Murgatroid Even ! |
| 9 | Other releases through the Sub Pop empire ( all of which now appear to be subject to the same scheduling difficulties ) include THEE HEADCOATS ' LP , ‘ Heavens To Murgatroid Even ! |
| 10 | Albert Finney is now reported to be high on the BBC 's list for the part . |
| 11 | Already famous as Bread 's Adrian Boswell , Jonathon Morris now wants to be well-known — as himself . |
| 12 | The standards of cleanliness and hygiene in our feed mills is now expected to be close to human food factories , and this is monitored by the Company 's Quality and Service audits . |
| 13 | Company profits are now expected to be level this year compared with a near 2 per cent fall last November , but next year 's improvement has been cut from 4.4 per cent to 2.9 per cent . |
| 14 | I now bring before you all the attitudes I now realise to be wrong . |
| 15 | The Stedelijk 's Barnett Newman , worth DFl. 5.4 million just before it was vandalised in 1986 , is now said to be worthless . |
| 16 | Mrs Lenihan , who suffers from dementia is now said to be comfortable in hospital in Oxford . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is now revealed to be Blue period — but one of the last paintings of this series . |
| 19 | Child-centred education , at least in the Primary schools , was now seen to be respectable . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam ’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong . |
| 22 | Perhaps they did n't know that several of the wickedest men had escaped from Germany and were even now pretending to be other people . |
| 23 | Folly was still confused , but at least there now seemed to be light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 24 | Though I still argued at parties , defending Sir Stafford Cripps and the Labour Government , no one I met now seemed to be interested : they listened to my opinions because I was pretty , their eyes on the cleavage of my dress . |
| 25 | The arguments against restorative proctocolectomy for familial adenomatous polyposis on the grounds that the operation carries a much greater morbidity than ileorectal anastomosis now seem to be unfounded , particularly when the need for annual and sometimes difficult sigmoidoscopy after ileorectal anastomosis is considered . |
| 26 | Scientists have called for an urgent review of recently set government safety limits which are now thought to be inadequate . |
| 27 | Several species of Australian amphibian , amongst them some of the most beautiful and interesting in the world , have died out and are now thought to be extinct . |
| 28 | However , the span of control is now thought to be dependent on : |
| 29 | Darwin 's own account of the unrestrained ‘ law of battle ’ in animals readily fits in with the theory of natural selection ; therefore , as his account of the law of battle is now thought to be wrong , we are left with the problem of reconciling new observation and established theory . |
| 30 | Microsoft Corp is said to be reconsidering the floor-level pricing it was trying with NT , and is now thought to be unlikely to go with the $99 price . |