Example sentences of "but [pers pn] is now " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their frustrations used to be articulated by Mrs Thatcher , but she is now as likely to be a cause of them as a cure . |
| 2 | Mrs Marcos agreed long ago to fly her husband 's body direct to Laoag , but she is now hinting at defiance . |
| 3 | But she is now in the Leicester area . |
| 4 | Mrs Robinson warns Ben against seeing Elaine again , but he is now in love with her daughter . |
| 5 | Bronson immersed himself in work on television movies after his actress wife Jill Ireland died of cancer two years ago but he is now set to marry girlfriend Kim Weeks , 31 . |
| 6 | Mr Belcher said the only member of the Prime Minister 's household to regularly patronise them was son James , but he is now away at school . |
| 7 | At one point there was real concern about his future but he is now back and playing better than when he was first picked by England . ’ |
| 8 | But he is now being exposed for what some of us always warned that he was . |
| 9 | ‘ He was an economist but he is now just a weak figure in a row which includes doctors , farmers , plumbers and painters — all equal in their misery . ’ |
| 10 | Monsieur Devraux was formerly an officer of the Infanterie Coloniale but he is now our most accomplished hunter of big game . " |
| 11 | Formerly , he was in favour of the abolition of Trident , but he is now in favour of three boats . |
| 12 | Powerful New Zealand Test forward George Mann has hardly had the best of luck with injury , but he is now back in action and ready to challenge for a regular first team place again . |
| 13 | Normally he would manage projects from his office in Bridge of Allan , but he is now based on the North Morcambe site because of the size of this contract . |
| 14 | Excellent use is made of the text of Tom Jones , but it is now less detectable that this is a writer who has done his stint of teaching English literature at university level . |
| 15 | Much determination and hard work have gone into that attempt , but it is now seen to have failed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was the first work on which he collaborated-and collaborated happily-with Nicholas Georgiadis but it is now given in the heavy scarlet , black and gold designs which Georgiadis substituted in 1980 . |
| 18 | But it is now to be cut . |
| 19 | It is thought that rice was first cultivated in India and Indo-China , but it is now grown extensively throughout the Far East . |
| 20 | Mozzarella was originally made from buffalos ' milk but it is now a cows ' milk cheese . |
| 21 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
| 22 | There is still uncertainty about the origins of the Lombards — frequently called the Longobards — but it is now generally agreed that they were central European , and probably arrived over the Alps from Hungary . |
| 23 | This may be an effect of the uncertainty around television 's textuality ; but it is now an extremely limiting effect for the development of theory . |
| 24 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 25 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 26 | It is sometimes still bred as a dual-purpose animal , giving milk as well as meat , and in that capacity is often used as a suckler , but it is now essentially a beef breed . |
| 27 | But it is now a very long time since I was there . ’ |
| 28 | ( Some 15 other states where the Moral Majority are by no means the silent majority , had hoped to pass similar laws , but it is now assumed that the case will go to appeal and eventually reach the Supreme Court ) . |
| 29 | Britain , of course , lagged behind the States , but it is now beginning to surface . |
| 30 | No. 28 was formerly the wheel turning shop , but it is now used mainly for automatic machines . |