Example sentences of "be now [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am now told that he 's hawking her story around for a six-figure sum , ’ he writes in the 100,000-circulation journal , which is read mainly by journalists , stock-brokers and media personalities . |
| 2 | Many teachers are now persuaded that English lessons should not be solely confined to ‘ great ’ literature , but should include all kinds of ‘ texts ’ , spoken and written , together with popular forms such as television commercials , bestsellers and comics ; |
| 3 | We are now told that , having been lied to over the years , the British people now have the prospect of political union , and they react against it and shy away . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the third sentence sends us reeling back to square one in terms of methodological confusion : we are now told that just because Keynes had tried to provide a theoretical underpinning for the concept of involuntary unemployment does not , ipso facto , oblige subsequent theorists to ‘ 'explain ’ the theoretical constructs of our predecessors ' . |
| 5 | All are now agreed that that proved to be a remarkably accurate estimate . |
| 6 | It is now hoped that the full peacekeeping force will be in place by the end of the month . |
| 7 | It is now reckoned that 80 per cent of laws enacted by Congress emanate from the executive — if one were to weight these laws in terms of importance , almost certainly that proportion would be higher . |
| 8 | Although there is much to support this view of the origin of our modern idea of time , it is now realized that it can only be adhered to with some reservations , as we shall see . |
| 9 | While good standards of physical care , hygiene , nutrition and so forth are clearly vital , it is now realized that the most important need is for the child to receive personal attention and genuine affection . |
| 10 | It is now accepted that UDR members and RUC officers have been leaking to loyalists . |
| 11 | It is now accepted that she destroyed the correspondence herself . |
| 12 | It is now accepted that new prerogative powers can not be created , but the scope of many established prerogative powers is unclear . |
| 13 | While it is now accepted that coronary arteriography can be safely performed following myocardial infarction , there is considerable variation between centres about the perceived indications for the test . |
| 14 | While the application of procedural checks to licensing activities has therefore increased it would be mistaken to say that it is now accepted that any licensing function should be subjected to such safeguards . |
| 15 | It is now accepted that a non-combinatorial entropy contribution arises from the formation of new ( 1–2 ) contacts in the mixture which change the vibrational frequencies of the two components , i.e. assumption ( d ) in section 8.2 must be relaxed . |
| 16 | Though the Report could be interpreted as advocating an exchange rate union , it is now accepted that it recommends a currency union . |
| 17 | On the other hand it is now accepted that Kennedy 's lengthy telephone calls to Macmillan fell short of " consultation " even if Macmillan 's official biographer argues that they " were certainly more than just 'informative' " . |
| 18 | 10 Burden of proof Dealing first with the question of reasonableness as between the parties it is now accepted that the burden of proof falls on the party seeking to enforce the restraint . |
| 19 | But it is now argued that the increased radiation would be no more than the existent difference between the poles and the equator . |
| 20 | It is now understood that in the process land settlement women often lose property rights , access to income , freedom of movement and social support . |
| 21 | It is now felt that a complete review of our IT activities is necessary , in order to plan our future investment programme . |
| 22 | Obviously , it does not suddenly become safe to steepen the climb at a certain height , and it is now recognised that the angle should be progressively steepened . |
| 23 | And it is now recognised that the great mountain chains are always found on the side of the continental plate facing the direction of its drift . |
| 24 | This assumption is not tenable as it is now recognised that the unstimulated output of prostacyclin by blood vessels is low ( reviewed by Dollery et al , 1983 ) . |
| 25 | It is now recognised that as long as certain precautions are taken , the SP is indispensable ( Fig. 7 ) . |
| 26 | Furthermore , it is now recognised that in learning language , children are doing far more than acquiring the rules of grammar and it may be that the key to the mastery of abstract grammatical rules lies in the socially mediated learning of functional language skills ( Bruner 1983 ; Halliday 1975 ; Wells 1981 ) . |
| 27 | It is now recognised that the industrialisation process is complex and that |
| 28 | It is now recognised that the tasks and skills to be learned by children with severe learning difficulties have to be analysed precisely and that the setting of small , clearly defined incremental objectives for individual pupils is a necessary part of programme planning . |
| 29 | It is now recognised that the costing of community-based care to take account of the wider back-up services on which it must depend is a complicated calculation which was not available with any degree of sophistication at the height of the movement away from institutional care ( Knapp , 1986 ) . |
| 30 | It is now recognised that this approach , seldom if ever actually applied in practice , is based on a confusion of thought . |