Example sentences of "now [been] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although people feared for their jobs in the wake of the CNAA threat to withdraw blanket validation from the Polytechnic in 1980 , there was also a sense of relief that the problems had now been stated in a form and in a language which our masters would find difficult to ignore . |
| 2 | The accident that happened there has now been cleared off the carriageway . |
| 3 | The magisterial pronouncement of Sir George Macdonald on the Antonine Wall has now been overthrown by the brilliant study of the samian by Brian Hartley ( 1972 ) , and the work at Carpow and other Severan sites will help to stabilize the dating of the pottery of this period , so with more revisions and adjustments , we may eventually have a framework which will endure , but only possible since all the groundwork had been so carefully prepared . |
| 4 | Even Japan has now been visited by the prospect of recession , with GDP declining by 0.75 per cent in the second half of 1992 . |
| 5 | Chris Patten , hailed the new ozone-friendly Secretary of State for Environment , had now been exposed as the ‘ dirty water salesman of Europe ’ . |
| 6 | The rebuilding was in Romanesque style , although this work has now been lost behind a Baroque frontage with later |
| 7 | But more generally the shame of not being like Japan has now been reinforced by the shame of not being like Romania . |
| 8 | Details regarding the firm 's demise are a little hazy , and the matter has now been referred to the Fraud Squad . |
| 9 | But workers rejected that offer and the matter has now been referred to the national executive of the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which is expected to rule on the dispute in the next few days . |
| 10 | Approval has now been given for the acquisition of the building . |
| 11 | But the go-ahead for the stars to appear has now been given by the Department of Employment . |
| 12 | ‘ He drove her back here this morning and she has now been seen by a doctor . ’ |
| 13 | All three members of the POU class-II gene family have now been mapped in the mouse . |
| 14 | The allowances referred to above have now been replaced with a personal allowance for all adults , plus a married couple 's allowance , which is payable to the husband in most cases . |
| 15 | Co-Op stamps are gradually being phased out and the dividend scheme , by which customers once shared in the company 's profits , has now been replaced with a system of money-off vouchers . |
| 16 | It has now been replaced by a new colonnade . |
| 17 | The big supermarkets , or what seemed big supermarkets then , which disfigured numerous high streets in the 1960s , have now been replaced by a much larger generation of stores . |
| 18 | About 1868 a new school was built but this has now been replaced by a modern and forward thinking school for five to eleven year olds . |
| 19 | Ms Mitchell said : ‘ The grief , anger and outrage in our community in the wake of the Braer have now been replaced by a determination that this type of economic and environmental disaster must never be allowed to happen again . |
| 20 | It may be noted that these acts were replaced by the Supreme Court of judicature ( Consolidation ) Act 1925 , which has itself now been replaced by the Supreme Court Act 1981 and by certain provisions in the Limitation Act 1980 ( consolidating earlier Limitation Acts ) . |
| 21 | So in 1989 petrol power gave way to a 1.8-litre diesel Escort , which has now been replaced by the latest version . |
| 22 | These have now been replaced by the 4.1m deep Woodnook Lock which lets the navigation rejoin the River Calder above the railway viaduct rather than below it . |
| 23 | In most areas of the Arab world these complex and costly fashions have now been replaced by the white , Western bridal dress . |
| 24 | Although the mechanisms behind this geographical variance are unclear , what is not in dispute is that spatial polarization in voting behaviour has increased steadily , especially during the three general elections of 1979 , 1983 and 1987 , making it difficult to disagree with the conclusion that the ‘ nationalization ’ of British politics has now been replaced by an emerging local differentiation . |
| 25 | For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small . |
| 26 | That theory has now been replaced in the minds of all but the most incurable romantics by the idea that the name derives from medio e lanus , half-way plain , lanus being a Celtic corruption of plane . |
| 27 | The publicity of Michael Banks 's death had now been replaced in the public 's mind with news of fresh disasters , and the show was running on its own impetus . |
| 28 | The first round of the National Clubs competition has now been completed with the holders Linden , of Birmingham , drawn against Nottingham 's Cliftonettes in the second round . |
| 29 | This mixture of strategic and ideological arguments , whose origins I described in Chapter Three , had by now been encapsulated in the single phrase ‘ diversity ’ . |
| 30 | That approach has now been adopted with a twist . |