Example sentences of "it [is] now [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of our members have lost their consolidated rate and it 's now become a bit of a running sore on the pay negotiations from last year , it needs to be sorted out , if confidence is to remain in last year 's pay , pay deal . |
| 2 | erm And as I said , we 're trying to , not that I 'm giving the opposite view to Doctor Plumtree , as I said , we 're trying to fund the people on the front line , you know , the foresters in their back yard , as it were , we 're trying to preserve it , and we also feel we 're not being patronising , it 's not like we 're writing out a large cheque and saying ’ here you are ’ , we 're actually putting a lot of time and effort into this , I mean , it 's now become a full time job for me and certainly for Dave Kester , and all the other people working on it . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's now become an annual event , one year here , the next in Barrow , where we played recently . |
| 4 | But it 's now facing a hostile takeover bid by a Suffolk based-brewery , Greene King . |
| 5 | The name being dropped enthusiastically in cities down the M1 and along the M62 , it 's now earning a reputation as one of the grooviest nights in the north . |
| 6 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 7 | It 's now thought a hundred and eighty people were detained by the Iraqis as they made their way to the pick up point for the last British convoy from Kuwait . |
| 8 | The brewery says it 's now found a buyer and the White Horse will stay in business . |
| 9 | I am delighted that it is now providing a three-day project at Sir Thomas Picton 's school in Haverfordwest , around its production of Don Pasquale . |
| 10 | The Institute says that it is now receiving a steady stream of IVA notifications every month , a phenomenon which , until the recession started , was extremely rare . |
| 11 | With 120 stores throughout Scotland and the North of England , it is now considering a summer stock-market flotation to help with further expansion into England . |
| 12 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota says that it is now offering a workstation version of its UniChem molecular modelling program written for its supercomputers : the new version is available on Silicon Graphics Inc workstations and a version for other Unix workstations will be offered later this year ; prices start at $45,000 , compared with $130,000 on a supercomputer . |
| 13 | It is now becoming a generally acknowledged fact that the Undertakers in England have too long neglected the importance of sanitation as applied to their own profession . |
| 14 | The church , however , seems to be out of step for , having opposed change for so long by supporting the status quo , it is now demonstrating an element of true radicalism since a minority of its clergy wish to take change beyond capitalism towards socialism . |
| 15 | Having failed in its attempt to induce individuals by offering to pay £1,000 per borehole , it is now attempting a new strategy which involves inducing the whole community . |
| 16 | It is now proposing a $25 million loan to Cameroon under its new Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) , to ‘ protect areas of tropical forest , ’ though this will be coupled with a $30 million forestry loan for ‘ sustainable management ’ of rainforests — a concept so far unproven in the tropics . |