Example sentences of "it [be] now [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course we 've got to be a bit careful , because the Americans are going , sort of the other way now , that people ca n't wear perfume and deodorant , that , that smell and things like that , can they , because it 's now seen as being equally as difficult as people who smoke . |
| 2 | It is now accepted as his masterpiece and has spawned a small industry in northern Italy . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , it is now looking as though the true story is more complicated , and that other variables , such as metabolic rate , may be more important . |
| 4 | Whereas it once had a reputation as being one of the toughest and most feared women 's prisons in Britain , it is now regarded as having gone soft by some of the prison officers . |
| 5 | By the later decades of the century it was becoming obvious that the numbers of many species were being rapidly diminished , and it was now regarded as ‘ unsporting ’ to amass the vast collections of trophies favoured by earlier hunters . |
| 6 | It was now criticized as anachronistic , and the German government had signalled for some time its concern over rising costs and their justifiability at a time when German unification put great strains on the public finances [ see also pp. 37212 ; 38508 ] . |