Example sentences of "it is now a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now a matter of history that — notwithstanding an outlay of £150million at current prices on research and development and prototype trains — the technical potential of the train was never achieved and in 1983 the entire project was abandoned . |
| 2 | It is now a museum of military history , but was once full of armed men and artillery . |
| 3 | The second of these aspects has emerged only relatively recently in the published literature on the postwar Labour government , but it is now a commonplace , certainly among Imperial and colonial historians . |
| 4 | Where not long ago the forest was thought of as an ‘ enemy ’ , it is now a source of life and livelihood . |
| 5 | It is now a caring and loving one , in which they both feel free to be themselves , and the trust between them is absolute . |
| 6 | I have heard that the house is inhabited , and that it is now a farmhouse ; but not a human being in sight anywhere near it ; the ploughmen have left the fields , the farm buildings are deserted . |
| 7 | It is now a grand little farmhouse forming part of a courtyard together with its outbuildings and set against the prevailing wind from the northwest . |
| 8 | It is now a matter of personal preference as to whether you use loose tea of speciality tea-bags . |
| 9 | Mozzarella was originally made from buffalos ' milk but it is now a cows ' milk cheese . |
| 10 | And there would be an outcry because it is now a basic principle of parliamentary democracy that parties of government stand in all constituencies across the state . |
| 11 | The Survey describes the gneisses in this zone as : gneiss with cataclasite fabric meaning gneiss that has suffered crushing ; mashed gneiss meaning gneiss that has been severely crushed ; and pseudotachylite — close to the actual plane of the thrust , meaning gneiss that has been crushed so severely it is now a black , flinty , very fine grained or glassy rock . |
| 12 | It is now a company office . |
| 13 | It is now a shadow of its former self . |
| 14 | It is now a retirement home . |
| 15 | It is now a memorial to all the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia who were killed by the Nazis — a staggering 77,297 . |
| 16 | It is now a basic lending library . |
| 17 | It is now a private house , but retains the characteristic features of the Victorian toll-house , with windows facing in both directions ( see London — Hampstead ) . |
| 18 | It is now a classically wedge-shaped dairy cow , particularly fine about the neck and shoulders , with an alert carriage and generally elegant appearance ; its mild temperament makes it very easy to handle and it is famous for its productive longevity . |
| 19 | But it is now a very long time since I was there . ’ |
| 20 | IT IS now a little more than three years since four biologists caused a minor uproar among molecular geneticists by publishing in Nature two papers in which they argued that a substantial proportion of the DNA of animal cells may exist for no higher purpose than its own propagation . |
| 21 | It is now a picturesque village of about 2,700 inhabitants , at the centre of a large conservation area . |
| 22 | It is now a thriving township of 12,000 people in the heart of the country 's best agricultural land . |
| 23 | There is no essential definition of the inner city ; it is now a truism to note that the inner city is theoretically chaotic . |
| 24 | It is now a common practice for the Government to introduce supplementary estimates to make provision for unforeseen events and , on occasion , to correct errors . |
| 25 | It is now a dwelling . |
| 26 | Once mainly agricultural , it is now a dormitory village for commuters to the city of Hull seven miles away , and for workers at one of Europe 's largest chemical plants at Saltend on the river Humber , barely two miles distant . |
| 27 | With the arrival , in 1984 , of the present rector , Canon Gerald Pearce , who set about its renovation with the aid of the YTS and other helpers , it is now a useful little hall for church meetings , play groups etc . |
| 28 | It is now a popular meeting place . |
| 29 | And now Kenco is leading the market by introducing a new dimension to its coffee — it is now a single grind , which means you can use it in any type of coffee-making system without any loss of taste or quality . |
| 30 | It is now a case of getting the support , and raising the funds to secure one of the two routes which are available to us . |